Bill Text: TX HB1217 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Relating to the administration of and procedures relating to early voting by personal appearance.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 11-4)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1217 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1217-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Relating to the administration of and procedures relating to early voting by personal appearance.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 11-4)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1217 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1217-Engrossed.html
88R23387 TSS-D | ||
By: Swanson, Manuel, Capriglione, Patterson, | H.B. No. 1217 | |
Morales of Maverick, et al. |
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relating to the administration of and procedures relating to early | ||
voting by personal appearance. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 19.004(a), Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (d), state funds | ||
disbursed under this chapter may be used only to: | ||
(1) defray expenses of the registrar's office in | ||
connection with voter registration, including additional expenses | ||
related to: | ||
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Registration Act of 1993 (52 U.S.C. Section 20501 et seq.) [ |
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(B) [ |
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requirements [ |
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registration personnel for not more than 39 weeks in a state fiscal | ||
year; and | ||
(2) defray the cost to the registrar's county of | ||
keeping the polling places in the county open during the early | ||
voting period as required under Sections 85.005(c), 85.006(e), and | ||
85.064(d). | ||
SECTION 2. Section 85.005(c), Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c) Voting [ |
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and county officers shall be conducted at the main early voting | ||
polling place for at least 12 hours on each weekday of the last week | ||
of the early voting period, and the voting in a special election | ||
ordered by the governor shall be conducted at the main early voting | ||
polling place for at least 12 hours on each of the last two days of | ||
the early voting period. Voting under this subsection may not be | ||
conducted earlier than 6 a.m. or later than 10 p.m. [ |
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SECTION 3. Section 85.006(e), Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(e) In a primary election or the general election for state | ||
and county officers [ |
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appearance at the main early voting polling place to be conducted on | ||
the last Saturday of the early voting period for at least 12 hours, | ||
except that voting may not be conducted earlier than 6 a.m. or later | ||
than 10 p.m., and on the last Sunday of the early voting period for | ||
at least six hours, except that voting may not be conducted earlier | ||
than 9 a.m. or later than 10 p.m. [ |
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provision of this subchapter to the extent of any conflict. | ||
SECTION 4. The heading to Section 85.064, Election Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 85.064. DAYS AND HOURS FOR VOTING: TEMPORARY BRANCH | ||
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SECTION 5. Section 85.064(d), Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(d) The authority authorized under Section 85.006 to order | ||
early voting on a Saturday or Sunday may also order, in the manner | ||
prescribed by that section, early voting to be conducted on a | ||
Saturday or Sunday at any one or more of the temporary branch | ||
polling places. In addition, the early voting clerk [ |
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with Section 85.006(e) [ |
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polling place established under Section 85.062(d). | ||
SECTION 6. Section 85.068(a), Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) The early voting clerk shall post notice for each | ||
election stating any dates and the hours that voting on Saturday or | ||
Sunday will be conducted under Section 85.064(d) [ |
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the early voting clerk is a county clerk or city secretary under | ||
Section 83.002 or 83.005. | ||
SECTION 7. The following provisions of the Election Code | ||
are repealed: | ||
(1) Section 85.064(a); and | ||
(2) Section 85.065. | ||
SECTION 8. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
an election for which early voting begins on or after the effective | ||
date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 9. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |