Bill Text: TX HB644 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the designation of polling place locations on the campuses of certain general academic teaching institutions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-23 - Referred to Elections [HB644 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB644-Introduced.html
88R1787 TSS-D | ||
By: Hinojosa | H.B. No. 644 |
|
||
|
||
relating to the designation of polling place locations on the | ||
campuses of certain general academic teaching institutions. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 43, Election Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 43.008 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 43.008. CAMPUS POLLING PLACE. (a) The commissioners | ||
court of a county shall designate as a polling place a location on | ||
the main campus of a general academic teaching institution as | ||
defined by Section 51.821, Education Code, located within the | ||
county if at least 8,000 students are enrolled in the institution. | ||
(b) Voting by personal appearance must be conducted at a | ||
polling place location designated under this section during the | ||
same hours as voting is conducted at the main early voting polling | ||
place and on election day. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |