Bill Text: TX HB4235 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to storing data received from a centrally counted optical scan ballot.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-21 - Referred to Elections [HB4235 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB4235-Introduced.html

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88R13241 MPF-F
By: Smith H.B. No. 4235

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to storing data received from a centrally counted optical
scan ballot.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 127.1301(b), Election Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) An authority operating a central counting station under
this chapter may not purchase or use a centrally counted optical
ballot scan system that stores data on [uses] a computer with a data
storage disc on which information, once written, is capable of
being overwritten during a system upgrade [modified].
SECTION 2. Sections 127.1301(c), (d), and (e), Election
Code, are repealed.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.