Bill Text: TX HB3159 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the use of an accessible absentee mail system by certain voters.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Vetoed) 2023-06-17 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB3159 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3159-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the use of an accessible absentee mail system by certain voters.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Vetoed) 2023-06-17 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB3159 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3159-Introduced.html
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| By: Leach | H.B. No. 3159 | |
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| relating to the use of an accessible absentee mail system by certain | ||
| voters. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 81, Election Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Section 81.006 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 81.006. ACCESSIBLE ABSENTEE BALLOT SYSTEM. (a) A | ||
| person eligible for early voting by mail under Section 82.002 or | ||
| Section 101.001 as a person described by Section 101.001(2)(A) may | ||
| cast a ballot using an accessible absentee mail system, | ||
| notwithstanding any other provision of this title. | ||
| (b) An accessible absentee mail system must be an electronic | ||
| system, including software, used for the sole purpose of enabling | ||
| any voter, including a voter who has a disability, to mark the | ||
| voter's ballot and print and submit the ballot in the manner | ||
| required by law for a ballot marked by the voter. | ||
| (c) The secretary of state shall adopt rules and prescribe | ||
| procedures for the implementation of this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
