Bill Text: TX SB396 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the availability of paper ballots for a person voting by personal appearance.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-15 - Referred to State Affairs [SB396 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB396-Introduced.html
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| By: Hall | S.B. No. 396 | |
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| relating to the availability of paper ballots for a person voting by | ||
| personal appearance. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 51.005(a), Election Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (a) The authority responsible for procuring the election | ||
| supplies for an election shall provide: | ||
| (1) for each election precinct, a number of ballots | ||
| equal to at least the percentage of voters who voted in that | ||
| precinct in the most recent corresponding election plus 25 percent | ||
| of that number, except that the number of ballots provided may not | ||
| exceed the total number of registered voters in the precinct; and | ||
| (2) unless the number of ballots provided to an | ||
| election precinct is equal to the total number of registered voters | ||
| in the precinct, the means to print additional paper ballots at each | ||
| precinct polling place and early voting polling place. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 125, Election Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 125.0071 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 125.0071. PROVISION OF PAPER BALLOT TO CERTAIN VOTERS. | ||
| (a) An election officer shall provide a paper ballot to a voter who | ||
| requests a paper ballot. | ||
| (b) The secretary of state may prescribe procedures to | ||
| implement this section. | ||
| SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply to an | ||
| election ordered on or after the effective date of this Act. An | ||
| election ordered before the effective date of this Act is governed | ||
| by the law in effect when the election was ordered, and the former | ||
| law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
