Bill Text: TX HB171 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced

Texas House Bill 171 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to an exception to the application of the offense of illegal voting.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-08-23 - Referred to Constitutional Rights & Remedies [HB171 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB171-Introduced.html

	87S20773 KJE-D

	By: Turner of Dallas	H.B. No. 171



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to an exception to the application of the offense of
	illegal voting.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 64.012, Election Code, is amended by
	adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
	(c) It is an exception to the application of Subsection
	(a)(1) that the person:
	(1) voted or attempted to vote a provisional ballot in
	accordance with Section 63.011; and
	(2) did not know:
	(A) of the particular circumstances that made the
	person not eligible to vote in the election; or
	(B) that those circumstances made the person not
	eligible to vote in the election.
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
	to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
	An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
	governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,
	and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For
	purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the
	effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred
	before that date.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 2022.