Bill Text: TX HB1622 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to reporting of early voting rosters.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-05-19 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB1622 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1622-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to reporting of early voting rosters.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-05-19 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB1622 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1622-Comm_Sub.html
87R16121 MLH-D | |||
By: Guillen | H.B. No. 1622 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1622: | |||
By: Jetton | C.S.H.B. No. 1622 |
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relating to reporting of early voting rosters. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 87.121, Election Code, as amended by | ||
Chapters 1083 (H.B. 1850) and 1215 (S.B. 902), Acts of the 86th | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 2019, is reenacted and amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 87.121. EARLY VOTING ROSTERS. (a) The early voting | ||
clerk shall maintain for each election a roster listing each person | ||
who votes an early voting ballot by personal appearance and a roster | ||
listing each person to whom an early voting ballot to be voted by | ||
mail is sent. | ||
(b) For each person listed, the applicable roster must | ||
include: | ||
(1) the person's name, address, and voter registration | ||
number; | ||
(2) an identification of the person's county election | ||
precinct of registration; and | ||
(3) the date of voting or the date the ballot was | ||
mailed to the person, as applicable. | ||
(c) Each roster shall be updated daily. | ||
(d) Each roster may be maintained in any form approved by | ||
the secretary of state. | ||
(e) The clerk shall preserve each roster after the election | ||
for the period for preserving the precinct election records. | ||
(f) Information on the roster for a person to whom an early | ||
voting mail ballot has been sent is not available for public | ||
inspection, except to the voter seeking to verify that the | ||
information pertaining to the voter is accurate, until the first | ||
business day after election day. | ||
(g) Information on the roster for a person who votes an | ||
early voting ballot by personal appearance shall be made available | ||
for public inspection as provided by Subsection (i) not later than | ||
11 a.m. on the day after the date the information is entered on the | ||
roster under Subsection (c). | ||
(h) Information on the roster for a person who votes an | ||
early voting ballot by mail shall be made available for public | ||
inspection as provided by Subsection (i) not later than 11 a.m. on | ||
the day following the day the early voting clerk receives a ballot | ||
voted by mail. | ||
(i) The information under Subsections (g) and (h) must be | ||
made available: | ||
(1) for an election in which the county clerk is the | ||
early voting clerk: | ||
(A) on the publicly accessible Internet website | ||
of the county; or | ||
(B) if the county does not maintain a website, on | ||
the bulletin board used for posting notice of meetings of the | ||
commissioners court; or | ||
(2) for an election not described by Subdivision (1): | ||
(A) on the publicly accessible Internet website | ||
of the authority ordering the election; or | ||
(B) if the authority ordering the election does | ||
not maintain a website, on the bulletin board used for posting | ||
notice of meetings of the governing body of the authority. | ||
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the general election for state and county officers shall submit to | ||
the secretary of state for posting on the secretary of state's | ||
Internet website the information described by: | ||
(1) Subsection (g) not later than 11 a.m. on the day | ||
after the date the information is entered on the roster under | ||
Subsection (c); and | ||
(2) Subsection (h) not later than 11 a.m. on the day | ||
following the day the early voting clerk receives a ballot voted by | ||
mail. | ||
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described by Subsection (j) [ |
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Internet website in a downloadable format. | ||
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an early voting clerk for a primary election or the general election | ||
for state and county officers to provide the information to the | ||
secretary of state for posting on the secretary of state's Internet | ||
website under Subsection (j) [ |
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(m) A person registered to vote in the county where the | ||
early voting clerk is conducting early voting may submit a | ||
complaint to the secretary of state stating that an early voting | ||
clerk has not complied with this section. | ||
(n) The secretary of state by rule shall create and maintain | ||
a system for receiving and recording complaints made under this | ||
section. | ||
(o) The secretary of state shall maintain a record | ||
indicating early voting clerks who have failed to comply with the | ||
requirements of this section. | ||
SECTION 2. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails | ||
over another Act of the 87th Legislature, Regular Session, 2021, | ||
relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted | ||
codes. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |