Bill Text: TX HB2276 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 2276 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to public notice of the time for voting at an early voting polling place.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-06 - Referred to Elections [HB2276 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB2276-Introduced.html

	86R10500 SRS-D

	By: Zwiener	H.B. No. 2276



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to public notice of the time for voting at an early voting
	polling place.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 85.067(c), Election Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(c) The schedule shall be posted continuously for a period
	beginning not later than the fifth day before the first day of the
	period for early voting by personal appearance and ending on the
	last day of that period. The schedule may be amended after the
	beginning of early voting by personal appearance to include notice
	of additional temporary branch polling place locations, dates, and
	hours[~~, but any amendment must be made not later than the fifth day~~
	~~before the date the voting is scheduled to begin at the additional~~
	~~temporary branch~~].
	SECTION 2. 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, 2019.