Bill Text: TX HB2848 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to video monitoring of an early voting polling place.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-08 - Left pending in committee [HB2848 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2848-Introduced.html
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By: White | H.B. No. 2848 |
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relating to video monitoring of an early voting polling place. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 85, Election Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 85.038 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 85.038. VIDEO RECORDING OF EARLY VOTING POLLING PLACE. | ||
(a) The early voting clerk may order video recording of the area | ||
within 100 feet of an outside door through which a voter may enter | ||
the building or structure in which an early voting polling place is | ||
located, except that voting stations may not be recorded. | ||
(b) The early voting clerk may permit a video recording made | ||
under Subsection (a) to be provided live on an Internet website for | ||
purposes of allowing the public to evaluate the wait time at an | ||
early voting polling place. | ||
(c) This section applies to any early voting polling place | ||
under this chapter. | ||
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, 2013. |