Bill Amendment: TX HB1300 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature

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Bill Title: Relating to the reading and marking of a ballot by a person occupying a voting station or by the person's child.

Status: 2021-05-14 - Referred to State Affairs [HB1300 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB1300-House_Amendment_H_2_1-Martinez_Fischer.html

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Amend CSHB 1300 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Subchapter E, Chapter 31, Election Code, is amended by adding Section 31.126 to read as follows:

Sec. 31.126.  EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS ON CHILD PARTICIPATION IN VOTING. (a) The secretary of state shall develop voter education materials for parents on the procedures under Section 64.002(b) that allow a child under 14 years of age to read and mark the ballot while accompanying the child's parent to a voting station. The secretary shall make the voter education materials available on the secretary's Internet website.

(b)  The county officer responsible for administering elections in a county to which Section 31.125 applies shall make the voter education materials developed by the secretary of state under Subsection (a) available on the county's Internet website.