Bill Text: TX HB3351 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to accepting voters with certain disabilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-18 - Referred to Elections [HB3351 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3351-Introduced.html
86R13131 SRS-D | ||
By: Bucy | H.B. No. 3351 |
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relating to accepting voters with certain disabilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 63.0013(b), (c), and (d), Election | ||
Code, as added by Chapter 980 (H.B. 658), Acts of the 85th | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) An election officer shall [ |
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mobility problem that substantially impairs a person's ability to | ||
ambulate who is offering to vote before accepting others offering | ||
to vote at the polling place who arrived before the person. | ||
(c) Notice of the priority given to persons with a mobility | ||
problem that substantially impairs a person's ability to ambulate | ||
shall be posted: | ||
(1) at [ |
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polling place where it can be read by persons waiting to vote; | ||
(2) on the Internet website of the secretary of state; | ||
and | ||
(3) on each Internet website relating to elections | ||
maintained by a county. | ||
(d) The notice required by Subsection (c) must read: | ||
"Pursuant to Section 63.0013, Election Code, an election officer | ||
shall [ |
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mobility problem that substantially impairs the person's ability to | ||
move around. A person assisting an individual with a mobility | ||
problem may also, at the individual's request, be given voting | ||
order priority. Disabilities and conditions that may qualify you | ||
for voting order priority include paralysis, lung disease, the use | ||
of portable oxygen, cardiac deficiency, severe limitation in the | ||
ability to walk due to arthritic, neurological, or orthopedic | ||
condition, wheelchair confinement, arthritis, foot disorder, the | ||
inability to walk 200 feet without stopping to rest, or use of a | ||
brace, cane, crutch, or other assistive device." | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |