Bill Text: TX SB1052 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 1052

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Bill Title: Relating to the compensation of an election judge or clerk.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2023-05-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB1052 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB1052-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Springer	S.B. No. 1052
	(In the Senate - Filed February 21, 2023; March 3, 2023,
	read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
	March 21, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11,
	Nays 0; March 21, 2023, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to the compensation of an election judge or clerk.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 32.091(b), Election Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(b) A judge or clerk may not be paid for more than two hours
	[~~one hour~~] of work before the polls open, except for payment made
	for work under Section 62.014(c). In a precinct in which voting
	machines are used, a judge or clerk may not be paid for more than two
	hours of work after the time for closing the polls or after the last
	voter has voted, whichever is later.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.

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