Bill Text: TX HB139 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the service of election watchers at a meeting place of a signature verification committee.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-08-23 - Referred to Constitutional Rights & Remedies [HB139 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB139-Introduced.html
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| By: Jetton | H.B. No. 139 | |
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| relating to the service of election watchers at a meeting place of a | ||
| signature verification committee. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 33.004(b), Election Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (b) To be eligible to participate in the appointment under | ||
| this section of a watcher for a precinct polling place, a person | ||
| must be a registered voter of the precinct. To be eligible to | ||
| participate in the appointment under this section of a watcher for | ||
| an early voting polling place, the meeting place of an early voting | ||
| ballot board or signature verification committee, or a central | ||
| counting station, a person must be a registered voter of the | ||
| territory served by that facility. | ||
| SECTION 2. Sections 33.007(a) and (c), Election Code, are | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) Each appointing authority may appoint not more than two | ||
| watchers for each precinct polling place, meeting place for an | ||
| early voting ballot board or signature verification committee, or | ||
| central counting station involved in the election. | ||
| (c) In an election in which the election officers serving at | ||
| a precinct polling place also serve as an early voting ballot board | ||
| or signature verification committee, a watcher who is appointed for | ||
| the precinct polling place may observe the processing of early | ||
| voting ballots by the early voting ballot board or signature | ||
| verification committee, or separate watchers may be appointed to | ||
| observe only that activity. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 33.051(a), Election Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (a) A watcher appointed to serve at a precinct polling | ||
| place, a meeting place for an early voting ballot board or signature | ||
| verification committee, or a central counting station must deliver | ||
| a certificate of appointment to the presiding judge at the time the | ||
| watcher reports for service. A watcher appointed to serve at an | ||
| early voting polling place must deliver a certificate of | ||
| appointment to the early voting clerk or deputy clerk in charge of | ||
| the polling place when the watcher first reports for service. | ||
| SECTION 4. Section 33.060(a), Election Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (a) On request of a watcher, an election officer who | ||
| delivers election records from a precinct polling place, an early | ||
| voting polling place, a meeting place for an early voting ballot | ||
| board or signature verification committee, or a central counting | ||
| station shall permit the watcher appointed to serve at that | ||
| location to accompany the officer in making the delivery. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
| last day of the legislative session. | ||
