Bill Text: TX HB201 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to temporary branch polling places.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-07-09 - Filed [HB201 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB201-Introduced.html
| By: Crockett | H.B. No. 201 | |
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| relating to temporary branch polling places. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 85.062(e), Election Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (e) In an election covered by Subsection (d), a temporary | ||
| branch polling place that is [ |
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| be established only with the approval of the county clerk. If a | ||
| movable temporary branch polling place is established [ |
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| political party whose nominee for governor in the most recent | ||
| gubernatorial general election received more than 10 percent of the | ||
| total number of votes received by all candidates for governor in the | ||
| election is entitled to establishment of such a polling place. The | ||
| election officers serving a polling place covered by this | ||
| subsection must be affiliated or aligned with different political | ||
| parties to the extent possible. The secretary of state, after | ||
| consulting the state chair of each affected political party, shall | ||
| prescribe the procedures necessary to implement this subsection. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 85.064, Election Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (b) Early voting by personal appearance at each temporary | ||
| branch polling place established under Section 85.062(d) shall be | ||
| conducted on the days that voting is required to be conducted at the | ||
| main early voting polling place under Section 85.005 and remain | ||
| open for at least: | ||
| (1) eight hours each day; or | ||
| (2) three hours each day if the city or county clerk | ||
| does not serve as the early voting clerk for the territory holding | ||
| the election and the territory has fewer than 1,000 registered | ||
| voters. | ||
| (c) Early voting by personal appearance at a temporary | ||
| branch polling place other than a temporary branch polling place | ||
| established under Section 85.062(d) may be conducted on any one or | ||
| more days and during any hours of the period for early voting by | ||
| personal appearance, as determined by the authority establishing | ||
| the branch. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
