Bill Text: TX HB4545 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a county, city, or independent school district posting election results on an Internet website.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-08 - Left pending in committee [HB4545 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4545-Introduced.html
86R2268 SRS-D | ||
By: Swanson | H.B. No. 4545 |
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relating to a county, city, or independent school district posting | ||
election results on an Internet website. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 65, Election Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 65.016 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 65.016. INTERNET POSTING OF ELECTION RESULTS. (a) A | ||
county, city, or independent school district that holds or provides | ||
election services for an election and maintains an Internet website | ||
shall post on its public Internet website: | ||
(1) the results of each election; | ||
(2) the total number of votes cast; and | ||
(3) the total number of votes cast for each candidate | ||
or for or against each measure. | ||
(b) The information described by Subsection (a) must be: | ||
(1) provided as soon as practicable after the | ||
election; and | ||
(2) accessible without having to make more than two | ||
selections or view more than two network locations after accessing | ||
the county's, city's, or district's Internet website home page. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |