Bill Text: TX HB2321 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to signature verification on an early voting ballot voted by mail.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-12 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB2321 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2321-Comm_Sub.html
| 87R7848 MLH-D | ||
| By: Jetton, Cain, Crockett, et al. | H.B. No. 2321 | |
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| relating to signature verification on an early voting ballot voted | ||
| by mail. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 87.027(i), Election Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (i) The signature verification committee shall compare the | ||
| signature on each carrier envelope certificate, except those signed | ||
| for a voter by a witness, with the signature on the voter's ballot | ||
| application to determine whether the signatures are those of the | ||
| voter. The committee shall also compare the signatures with each | ||
| signature of the voter obtained from the Department of Public | ||
| Safety and on file with the county clerk or voter registrar. The | ||
| committee may also compare the signatures with any two or more | ||
| signatures of the voter made within the preceding six years and on | ||
| file with the county clerk or voter registrar to determine whether | ||
| the signatures are those of the voter. Except as provided by | ||
| Subsection (l), a determination under this subsection that the | ||
| signatures are not those of the voter must be made by a majority | ||
| vote of the committee's membership. The committee shall place the | ||
| jacket envelopes, carrier envelopes, and applications of voters | ||
| whose signatures are not those of the voter in separate containers | ||
| from those of voters whose signatures are those of the voter. The | ||
| committee chair shall deliver the sorted materials to the early | ||
| voting ballot board at the time specified by the board's presiding | ||
| judge. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 87.041, Election Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (e-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (e-1) In making the determination under Subsection (b)(2), | ||
| the board shall also compare the signatures with each signature of | ||
| the voter obtained from the Department of Public Safety and on file | ||
| with the county clerk or voter registrar. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
