Bill Text: TX HB1008 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the systems used in a central counting station.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB1008 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB1008-Introduced.html

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By: Toth H.B. No. 1008

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the systems 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 not purchase or use a [centrally counted optical]
ballot scanner unless the ballot scanner can only use [scan system
that uses] a data storage device [disc] on which information, once
written, is incapable [capable] of being modified without rendering
the device unreadable.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.