Bill Text: TX SB47 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the criminal offense of unlawfully prohibiting an employee from voting.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-07-09 - Filed [SB47 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB47-Introduced.html
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| By: Miles, et al. | S.B. No. 47 | |
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| relating to the criminal offense of unlawfully prohibiting an | ||
| employee from voting. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Sections 276.004(a) and (b), Election Code, are | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) A person commits an offense if, with respect to another | ||
| person over whom the person has authority in the scope of | ||
| employment, the person knowingly: | ||
| (1) refuses to permit the other person to be absent | ||
| from work on election day or while early voting is in progress for | ||
| the purpose of attending the polls to vote; or | ||
| (2) subjects or threatens to subject the other person | ||
| to a penalty for attending the polls on election day or while early | ||
| voting is in progress to vote. | ||
| (b) It is an exception to the application of this section | ||
| that the person's conduct occurs in connection with an election in | ||
| which the polls are open on election day or while early voting is in | ||
| progress for voting for two consecutive hours outside of the | ||
| voter's working hours. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
| last day of the legislative session. | ||
