Bill Text: TX HB88 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to an election ballot.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB88 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB88-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to an election ballot.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB88 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB88-Comm_Sub.html
By: Swanson (Senate Sponsor - Fallon) | H.B. No. 88 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 3, 2019; | ||
April 4, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on State | ||
Affairs; May 13, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; | ||
May 13, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 88 | By: Huffman |
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relating to an election ballot. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 2.002(d), Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(d) The order of the candidates' names on the ballot shall | ||
be the relative order of names on the original ballot [ |
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SECTION 2. Section 52.075, Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 52.075. MODIFICATION OF BALLOT FORM FOR CERTAIN VOTING | ||
SYSTEMS. (a) The secretary of state may prescribe the form and | ||
content of a ballot for an election using a voting system, including | ||
an electronic voting system or a voting system that uses direct | ||
recording electronic voting machines or ballot marking devices, to | ||
conform to the formatting requirements of the system. | ||
(b) In this section, "ballot marking device," "direct | ||
recording electronic voting machine," "electronic voting system," | ||
and "voting system" have the meanings assigned by Section 121.003. | ||
SECTION 3. Sections 52.094(a) and (c), Election Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) Except as otherwise provided by law, for an election at | ||
which the names of more than one candidate for the same office are | ||
to appear on the ballot in an independent column or are to appear on | ||
a general or special election ballot that does not contain a party | ||
nominee, the order of the candidates' names shall be determined by a | ||
drawing. The order of the candidates' names on the ballot of any | ||
resulting runoff election or election held to resolve a tie vote | ||
shall be the relative order of names on the original election | ||
ballot. | ||
(c) The authority conducting the drawing shall post in the | ||
authority's office a notice of the date, hour, and place of the | ||
drawing. The notice must remain posted continuously for 72 hours | ||
immediately preceding the scheduled time of the drawing[ |
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SECTION 4. Section 121.003, Election Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subdivision (13) to read as follows: | ||
(13) "Ballot marking device" means a voting system | ||
with an electronic interface that allows a voter to mark a paper | ||
ballot. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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