Bill Text: TX SB1661 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to a ballot scan system used in a central counting station.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB1661 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB1661-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Hughes S.B. No. 1661
(Smith, et al.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a ballot scan system used in a central counting station.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 127.1301(b), Election Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) An authority operating a central counting station under
this chapter may only [not] purchase or use a [centrally counted
optical] ballot scan system if the system is only capable of using
[that uses] a data transfer media device that:
(1) [storage disc on which information,] once a cast
vote record is written, is incapable [capable] of being modified
without automatic:
(A) detection of the modification; and
(B) rejection of the cast vote record; and
(2) does not allow for the process under Subdivision
(1) to be overridden or circumvented.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.