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

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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-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 273

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.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 273 was passed by the House on April
12, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 1 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 273 was passed by the Senate on May
21, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor