Bill Text: TX HB2110 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to requirements for certain election officers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB2110 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2110-Enrolled.html
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relating to requirements for certain election officers. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 32.054(a), Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) A person is ineligible to serve as an election judge or | ||
clerk in an election if the person is employed by or related within | ||
the second degree by consanguinity or affinity, as determined under | ||
Chapter 573, Government Code, to an opposed candidate for a public | ||
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purposes of this subsection, a candidate whose name appears on the | ||
ballot is not considered to be opposed by a write-in candidate other | ||
than a declared write-in candidate under Chapter 146. | ||
SECTION 2. The heading to Section 62.003, Election Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 62.003. [ |
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IDENTIFICATION. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 62.003, Election Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: | ||
(c) Following administration of the oath, each election | ||
officer shall be issued a form of identification, prescribed by the | ||
secretary of state, to be displayed by the officer during the | ||
officer's hours of service at the polling place. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2110 was passed by the House on May 8, | ||
2013, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2110 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
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Governor |