Bill Text: TX HB155 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the deadline for returning a ballot voted by mail.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-07-09 - Referred to Constitutional Rights & Remedies [HB155 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB155-Introduced.html
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| By: Dominguez | H.B. No. 155 | |
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| relating to the deadline for returning a ballot voted by mail. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Sections 86.007(a) and (e), Election Code, are | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
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| ballot voted by mail must arrive at the address on the carrier | ||
| envelope: | ||
| (1) before the time the polls are required to close on | ||
| election day; or | ||
| (2) not later than the fifth day after the date of the | ||
| election [ |
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| envelope was placed for delivery by mail or common or contract | ||
| carrier before election day and bears a cancellation mark of a | ||
| common or contract carrier or a courier indicating a time not later | ||
| than 7 p.m. at the location of the election on election day. | ||
| (e) A delivery under Subsection (a)(2) [ |
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| except as otherwise provided by this title, if the carrier envelope | ||
| or, if applicable, the envelope containing the carrier envelope: | ||
| (1) is properly addressed with postage or handling | ||
| charges prepaid; and | ||
| (2) bears a cancellation mark of a recognized postal | ||
| service or a receipt mark of a common or contract carrier or a | ||
| courier indicating a time before the deadline. | ||
| SECTION 2. Sections 87.125(a) and (a-1), Election Code, are | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The early voting ballot board shall convene to count | ||
| ballots voted by mail that arrive at the address on the carrier | ||
| envelope after 5 p.m. on the day after election day and are timely | ||
| under Section 86.007 [ |
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| set by the presiding judge of the board on the ninth day after the | ||
| date of an election or on an earlier day if the early voting clerk | ||
| certifies that all ballots voted by mail [ |
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| (a-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), for an election held | ||
| on the date of the general election for state and county officers, | ||
| the early voting ballot board shall convene to count ballots voted | ||
| by mail that arrive at the address on the carrier envelope after 5 | ||
| p.m. on the day after election day and are timely under Section | ||
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| the 13th day after the date of the election. | ||
| SECTION 3. Sections 86.007(d) and (g), Election Code, are | ||
| repealed. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
| last day of the legislative session. | ||
