Bill Text: TX HB3425 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to aid provided to certain voters; providing a criminal penalty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-03 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3425 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3425-Introduced.html
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By: Laubenberg | H.B. No. 3425 |
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relating to aid provided to certain voters; providing a criminal | ||
penalty. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 86.0051, Election Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsections (a-1) and (d-1) and amending Subsections (d) and | ||
(e) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) A person commits an offense if the person deposits in | ||
the mail or with a common or contract carrier more than two carrier | ||
envelopes containing ballots voted by other persons in an election. | ||
It is not a defense to an offense under this subsection that the | ||
voter voluntarily gave another person possession of the voter's | ||
carrier envelope. | ||
(d) An offense under Subsection (a) or (c) [ |
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a Class B misdemeanor, unless the person is convicted of an offense | ||
under Section 64.036 for providing unlawful assistance to the same | ||
voter in connection with the same ballot, in which event the offense | ||
is a state jail felony. | ||
(d-1) An offense under Subsection (a-1) is a state jail | ||
felony. | ||
(e) Subsections (a), (a-1), and (c) do not apply if the | ||
person is related to the applicant within the second degree by | ||
affinity or the third degree by consanguinity, as determined under | ||
Subchapter B, Chapter 573, Government Code, or is registered to | ||
vote at the same address as the applicant. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, | ||
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For | ||
purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the | ||
effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred | ||
before that date. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |