Bill Text: TX HB273 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the time for providing a ballot to be voted by mail to a voter.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB273 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB273-Comm_Sub.html

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86R14995 JRJ-D
By: Swanson H.B. No. 273
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 273:
By: Klick C.S.H.B. No. 273

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the time for providing a ballot to be voted by mail to a
voter.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 86.004(a), Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the balloting
materials for voting by mail shall be mailed to a voter entitled to
vote by mail not later than the seventh calendar day after the later
of the date the clerk accepts the voter's application for a ballot
to be voted by mail or the date the ballots become available for
mailing, except that if that mailing date is earlier than the 37th
[45th] day before election day, the balloting materials shall be
mailed not later than the 30th day before election day.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an election ordered on or after September 1, 2019.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.