Bill Text: TX SB62 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the reading and marking of a ballot by a person occupying a voting station or by the person's child.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [SB62 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB62-Introduced.html
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| By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 62 | |
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| relating to the reading and marking of a ballot by a person | ||
| occupying a voting station or by the person's child. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 31, Election Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 31.131 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 31.131. EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS ON CHILD PARTICIPATION | ||
| IN VOTING. (a) The secretary of state shall develop voter | ||
| education materials for parents on the procedures under Section | ||
| 64.002(b) that allow a child under 14 years of age to read and mark | ||
| the ballot while accompanying the child's parent to a voting | ||
| station. The secretary shall make the voter education materials | ||
| available on the secretary's Internet website. | ||
| (b) The county officer responsible for administering | ||
| elections in a county to which Section 31.125 applies shall make the | ||
| voter education materials developed by the secretary of state under | ||
| Subsection (a) available on the county's Internet website. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 64.002(b), Election Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (b) A child under 18 years of age may accompany the child's | ||
| parent to a voting station, and, if the child is under 14 years of | ||
| age, the child may read or mark the ballot at the direction of the | ||
| parent. Reading or marking a ballot under this subsection does not | ||
| constitute assisting a voter for purposes of Subchapter B. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
