Bill Text: TX HB1048 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the use of a county early voting polling place by a political subdivision.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB1048 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1048-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 1048 |
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relating to the use of a county early voting polling place by a | ||
political subdivision. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 85.010, Election Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (a-1) and amending Subsection (b) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(a-1) In this section, "eligible county polling place" | ||
means an early voting polling place, other than a polling place | ||
established under Section 85.062(e), established by a county. | ||
(b) A political subdivision that holds an election | ||
described by Subsection (a): | ||
(1) shall designate as an early voting polling place | ||
for the election an eligible county [ |
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subdivision; and | ||
(2) may not designate as an early voting polling place | ||
a location other than an eligible county polling place unless each | ||
eligible county polling place located in the political subdivision | ||
is designated as an early voting polling place by the political | ||
subdivision. | ||
SECTION 2. 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, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 1048 was passed by the House on April | ||
9, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 148, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 1048 on May 23, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0, | ||
1 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 1048 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 21, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |