Bill Text: TX HB2293 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the hours for voting during the early voting period.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-21 - Left pending in committee [HB2293 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2293-Introduced.html
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| By: Patterson | H.B. No. 2293 | |
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| relating to the hours for voting during the early voting period. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Sections 85.005(a) and (b), Election Code, are | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), in an election in | ||
| which a county clerk or city secretary is the early voting clerk | ||
| under Section 83.002 or 83.005, early voting by personal appearance | ||
| at the main early voting polling place shall be conducted on the | ||
| weekdays of the early voting period and during the hours that the | ||
| county clerk's or city secretary's main business office is | ||
| regularly open for business, except that voting may not be | ||
| conducted earlier than 6 a.m. or later than 9 p.m.[ |
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| (b) In an election to which Subsection (a) does not apply, | ||
| early voting by personal appearance at the main early voting | ||
| polling place shall be conducted at least eight hours each weekday | ||
| of the early voting period that is not a legal state holiday unless | ||
| the territory covered by the election has fewer than 1,000 | ||
| registered voters. In that case, the voting shall be conducted at | ||
| least three hours each day. The authority ordering the election, or | ||
| the county clerk if that person is the early voting clerk, shall | ||
| determine which hours the voting is to be conducted except that | ||
| voting may not be conducted earlier than 6 a.m. or later than 9 | ||
| p.m.[ |
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| SECTION 2. Section 85.006(c), Election Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (c) The authority ordering voting on a Saturday or Sunday | ||
| shall determine the hours during which voting is to be conducted | ||
| except that voting may not be conducted earlier than 6 a.m. or later | ||
| than 9 p.m.[ |
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| SECTION 3. Section 85.010(c), Election Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (c) A shared polling place established under Subsection (b) | ||
| that is designated as a main early voting polling place by any | ||
| political subdivision: | ||
| (1) must be open for voting for all political | ||
| subdivisions the polling place serves for at least the days and | ||
| hours required of a main early voting polling place under Section | ||
| 85.002 for the political subdivision making the designation; and | ||
| (2) may not be open for voting earlier than 6 a.m. or | ||
| later than 9 p.m.[ |
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| SECTION 4. Section 85.064, Election Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: | ||
| (c) Early voting by personal appearance at a temporary | ||
| branch polling place may not be conducted earlier than 6 a.m. or | ||
| later than 9 p.m. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
