Bill Text: TX HB1428 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to inappropriate actions by the early voting ballot board; creating an offense.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-09 - Referred to State Affairs [HB1428 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1428-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to inappropriate actions by the early voting ballot board; creating an offense.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-09 - Referred to State Affairs [HB1428 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1428-Introduced.html
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| By: S. Davis of Harris | H.B. No. 1428 | |
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| relating to inappropriate actions by the early voting ballot board. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 87, Election Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 87.006 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 87.006. INAPPROPRIATE ACTION BY BOARD. On written | ||
| application by the presiding officer of the local canvassing | ||
| authority indicating that the early voting ballot board has | ||
| inappropriately accepted or rejected a ballot or otherwise violated | ||
| a provision of this code, the secretary of state shall review the | ||
| act in question and determine the appropriate remedy, including | ||
| making a determination that may lead to a recount under Chapter 212. | ||
| 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, 2013. | ||
