Bill Text: TX HB1130 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a study on the implementation of photo voter identification requirements.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-22 - Referred to Elections [HB1130 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1130-Introduced.html
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By: Turner | H.B. No. 1130 |
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relating to a study on the implementation of photo voter | ||
identification requirements. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 31, Election Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 31.013 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 31.013. STUDY ON IMPLEMENTATION OF VOTER | ||
IDENTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS. (a) The secretary of state shall | ||
conduct a study on the implementation of the changes in law made by | ||
Chapter 123 (S.B. 14), Acts of the 82nd Legislature, Regular | ||
Session, 2011, including: | ||
(1) the costs of implementation; | ||
(2) additional requirements for election workers to | ||
accept a voter; | ||
(3) the amount of time needed to accept a voter at the | ||
polling place; and | ||
(4) training, if any, provided to election workers at | ||
the county and precinct levels. | ||
(b) Not later than January 1, 2019, the secretary of state | ||
shall report the study's findings to the committees of each house of | ||
the legislature with jurisdiction over elections. | ||
(c) This section expires September 1, 2019. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |