Bill Text: TX HB3252 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the posting of certain notices in a primary election.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2019-06-15 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB3252 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3252-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the posting of certain notices in a primary election.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2019-06-15 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB3252 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3252-Comm_Sub.html
By: Allen (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) | H.B. No. 3252 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 23, 2019; | ||
April 24, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on State | ||
Affairs; May 19, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 19, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the posting of certain notices in a primary election. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 172.1111(a) and (c), Election Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) Before the opening of the polls during the early voting | ||
period and on election day, the presiding judge shall post at each | ||
outside door through which a voter may enter the building in which | ||
the polling place is located a written notice in bold print of the | ||
date, hour, and place for each precinct, county, senatorial, or | ||
state convention that a voter in the precinct may be eligible to | ||
attend during the election year. | ||
(c) The notice must remain posted continuously through the | ||
early voting period and on election day. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 172.1112(a), Election Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) The county clerk shall post a notice of the election and | ||
a notice of consolidated precincts, if applicable, in the manner | ||
prescribed by Section 4.003(b) for general and special elections. | ||
The notice of the election shall be posted on the county clerk's | ||
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website. If the county clerk [ |
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the notice shall be posted on the bulletin board used for posting | ||
notice of meetings of the commissioners court. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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