Bill Text: TX HB1314 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub


Bill Title: Relating to manufacturing requirements for hardware and software used in a voting system used in an election in this state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 54-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-12 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB1314 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB1314-Comm_Sub.html
  87R20359 ADM-D
 
  By: Hefner, Cain, Jetton, Swanson, et al. H.B. No. 1314
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1314:
 
  By:  Schofield C.S.H.B. No. 1314
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to manufacturing requirements for hardware and software
  used in a voting system used in an election in this state.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 122.032, Election Code, is amended by
  amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
  follows:
         (a)  For a voting system or voting system equipment to be
  approved for use in elections, the voting system in which the
  equipment is designed to be used must:
               (1)  comply with the standards prescribed by Subchapter
  A; and
               (2)  beginning September 1, 2021, have:
                     (A)  all software used in the voting system be
  developed and operated entirely within the United States and sold
  by a company whose:
                           (i)  headquarters are located in the United
  States; and
                           (ii)  parent company's headquarters, if
  applicable, are located in the United States; and
                     (B)  all hardware used in the voting system, if
  manufactured outside the United States, be delivered to the United
  States without any embedded software installed.
         (c)  In this section, "embedded software" means programmable
  instructions provided on software that is delivered with voting
  system equipment or with a replacement part for that equipment for
  the purpose of equipment operation, including all relevant patches
  and fixes made by the original equipment manufacturer of the voting
  system equipment or replacement part for that purpose.
         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, 2021.
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