Bill Text: TX HB2721 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 2721 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to public notice of the time for voting during an early voting period.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective immediately [HB2721 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB2721-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 2721




	AN ACT
	relating to public notice of the time for voting during an early
	voting period.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 85.007, Election Code, is amended by
	adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows:
	(d) Any notice required under this section must also be
	posted:
	(1) on the Internet website of the authority ordering
	the election, if the authority maintains a website; and
	(2) for a primary election or general election, by the
	secretary of state on the secretary's Internet website.
	(e) The authority ordering an election shall forward its
	election notice to the secretary of state in a manner that affords
	the secretary of state sufficient time to comply with Subsection
	(d)(2).
	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, 2015.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 2721 was passed by the House on May
	15, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0, 2 present, not
	voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 2721 was passed by the Senate on May
	27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: _____________________
	Date

	_____________________
	Governor