Bill Text: TX HB3252 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to the posting of certain notices in a primary election.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Vetoed) 2019-06-15 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB3252 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB3252-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 3252

AN ACT
relating to the posting of certain notices in a primary election.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 172.1111(a) and (c), Election Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(a) Before the opening of the polls during the early voting
period and on election day, the presiding judge shall post at each
outside door through which a voter may enter the building in which
the polling place is located a written notice in bold print of the
date, hour, and place for each precinct, county, senatorial, or
state convention that a voter in the precinct may be eligible to
attend during the election year.
(c) The notice must remain posted continuously through the
early voting period and on election day.
SECTION 2. Section 172.1112(a), Election Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) The county clerk shall post a notice of the election and
a notice of consolidated precincts, if applicable, in the manner
prescribed by Section 4.003(b) for general and special elections.
The notice of the election shall be posted on the county clerk's
[party's] Internet website, if the county clerk [party] maintains a
website. If the county clerk [party] does not maintain a website,
the notice shall be posted on the bulletin board used for posting
notice of meetings of the commissioners court.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3252 was passed by the House on April
17, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 135, Nays 2, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3252 was passed by the Senate on May
22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor