Bill Text: TX HB2559 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to public inspection of mail ballot applications.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB2559 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2559-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2559 |
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relating to public inspection of mail ballot applications. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 86.014(a), Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) A copy of an application for a ballot to be voted by mail | ||
is not available for public inspection, except to the voter seeking | ||
to verify that the information pertaining to the voter is accurate, | ||
until the first business day after the election day of the earliest | ||
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2559 was passed by the House on May 9, | ||
2017, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 2, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2559 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
22, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |