Bill Text: TX HB1958 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to voting by voters unable to enter a polling place.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-04 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1958 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1958-Comm_Sub.html
By: Turner of Harris, Wu | H.B. No. 1958 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1958: | |||
By: Morrison | C.S.H.B. No. 1958 |
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relating to voting by voters unable to enter a polling place. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 64.009, Election Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsections (e) and (f) to read as follows: | ||
(e) The secretary of state shall adopt rules and procedures | ||
to implement this section as follows: | ||
(1) to inform and educate the public and provide | ||
training for election officers regarding the availability of voting | ||
under this section, eligibility requirements for voting under this | ||
section, and the law regarding voting under this section; | ||
(2) to develop recommended procedures for a voter who | ||
is eligible to vote under this section to notify an election officer | ||
of the need for assistance, including requiring an election officer | ||
to develop a system to check outside the polling place for an | ||
eligible voter; | ||
(3) to require the posting of signs outside of a | ||
polling place that indicate voting under this section is available, | ||
where eligible voters should wait, how an eligible voter should | ||
notify an election officer of the need for assistance, and a | ||
telephone number of the officer who administers elections that an | ||
eligible voter may call for assistance; and | ||
(4) to require election officials to develop a | ||
procedure for ensuring a voter who is eligible to vote under this | ||
section is provided the opportunity to vote in the same order as if | ||
the voter were voting inside the polling place. | ||
(f) The secretary of state may withhold all or part of any | ||
funds administered and distributed by the secretary of state, | ||
including funds distributed under Chapter 19 or Section 31.009, | ||
from a political subdivision that operates a polling place that | ||
violates the requirements established under this section. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |