Bill Text: TX HB2449 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the procedures for voting ballots by mail.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 9-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB2449 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2449-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the procedures for voting ballots by mail.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 9-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB2449 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2449-Comm_Sub.html
By: Aliseda, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Hegar) | H.B. No. 2449 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 16, 2011; | ||
May 16, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on State | ||
Affairs; May 21, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 5, Nays 3; May 21, 2011, sent to printer.) |
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relating to the illegal possession of another person's ballot to be | ||
voted by mail. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 86.006, Election Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (g-1) to read as follows: | ||
(g-1) When ballots or carrier envelopes are obtained in | ||
violation of this section pursuant to one scheme or continuing | ||
course of conduct, whether from the same or several sources, the | ||
conduct may be considered as one offense and the number of ballots | ||
or carrier envelopes aggregated in determining the grade of the | ||
offense. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect when the offense was committed, and | ||
the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For | ||
purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the | ||
effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred | ||
before that date. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
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