Bill Text: TX HB1631 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to hours of service by an election watcher.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1631 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1631-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to hours of service by an election watcher.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1631 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1631-Comm_Sub.html
By: Paul (Senate Sponsor - Middleton) | H.B. No. 1631 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 24, 2023; | ||
April 24, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on State | ||
Affairs; May 15, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 15, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to hours of service by an election watcher. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 33.052, Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 33.052. HOURS OF SERVICE AT PRECINCT POLLING PLACE. | ||
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time after the presiding judge arrives at the polling place on | ||
election day and may remain at the polling place until the presiding | ||
judge and the clerks complete their duties there. A watcher [ |
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place during the hours the watcher chooses, except that if the | ||
watcher is present at the polling place when ballots are counted, | ||
the watcher may not leave until the counting is complete. | ||
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
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