Bill Text: TX HB1888 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to eligibility to serve as an interpreter in an election.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-14 - Filed [HB1888 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1888-Introduced.html
85R1251 ADM-D | ||
By: Romero, Jr. | H.B. No. 1888 |
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relating to eligibility to serve as an interpreter in an election. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 61.032, Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 61.032. INTERPRETER PERMITTED. If an election officer | ||
who attempts to communicate with a voter does not understand the | ||
language used by the voter, the voter may communicate through an | ||
interpreter selected by the voter or, if the voter has not selected | ||
an interpreter, an interpreter appointed by an election officer. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 61.033, Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 61.033. ELIGIBILITY TO SERVE AS INTERPRETER. To be | ||
eligible to serve as an interpreter, a person: | ||
(1) if selected by the voter, may be any person other | ||
than the voter's employer, an agent of the voter's employer, or an | ||
officer or agent of a labor union to which the voter belongs; or | ||
(2) if appointed to serve as an interpreter by an | ||
election officer, must be a registered voter of the county in which | ||
the voter needing the interpreter resides or a registered voter of | ||
an adjacent county. | ||
SECTION 3. 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, 2017. |