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]

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  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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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  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
  [party's] Internet website, if the county clerk [party] maintains a
  website.  If the county clerk [party] does not maintain a website,
  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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