Bill Text: TX SB1911 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to election supplies and the conduct of elections; creating criminal offenses; increasing criminal penalties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-04 - Left pending in committee [SB1911 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1911-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to election supplies and the conduct of elections; creating criminal offenses; increasing criminal penalties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-04 - Left pending in committee [SB1911 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1911-Comm_Sub.html
By: Bettencourt | S.B. No. 1911 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2023; March 20, 2023, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; | ||
April 5, 2023, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 2; April 5, 2023, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1911 | By: Hughes |
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relating to election supplies and the conduct of elections; | ||
creating criminal offenses; increasing criminal penalties. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 51.005, Election Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (a-1) and (d) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) The authority responsible for procuring the election | ||
supplies for an election shall provide for each election precinct a | ||
number of ballots equal to at least the percentage of voters who | ||
voted in that precinct in the most recent corresponding election | ||
plus 25 percent of that number. | ||
(a-1) The[ |
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not exceed the total number of registered voters in the precinct | ||
unless the county participates in the countywide polling place | ||
program under Section 43.007. | ||
(d) The authority responsible for procuring the election | ||
supplies for an election commits an offense if the authority | ||
intentionally fails to provide an election precinct with the | ||
required number of ballots under this section. An offense under | ||
this subsection is a Class A misdemeanor. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 51.008, Election Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: | ||
(e) The authority responsible for procuring the election | ||
supplies for an election commits an offense if the authority | ||
intentionally fails to promptly supplement the distributed ballots | ||
upon request by a polling place. An offense under this subsection | ||
is a Class A misdemeanor. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 51.010(c), Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c) An offense under this section is a Class A [ |
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misdemeanor. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 51.011(b), Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b) An offense under this section is a state jail felony | ||
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SECTION 5. Section 61.007(b), Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b) An offense under this section is a state jail felony | ||
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SECTION 6. The changes in law made by this Act to Sections | ||
51.010, 51.011, and 61.007, Election Code, apply only to an offense | ||
committed on or after the effective date of this Act. An offense | ||
committed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the | ||
law in effect on the date the offense was committed, and the former | ||
law is continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of this | ||
section, an offense was committed before the effective date of this | ||
Act if any element of the offense occurred before that date. | ||
SECTION 7. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
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