Bill Text: TX HB3586 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the deadline for returning a ballot voted by mail.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-23 - Referred to Elections [HB3586 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB3586-Introduced.html
  84R12436 SLB-F
 
  By: Reynolds H.B. No. 3586
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the deadline for returning a ballot voted by mail.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 86.007(d), (e), and (f), Election Code,
  are amended to read as follows:
         (d)  A marked ballot voted by mail that arrives after the
  time prescribed by Subsection (a) shall be counted if:
               (1)  [the ballot was cast from an address outside the
  United States;
               [(2)]  the carrier envelope was placed for delivery
  before the time the ballot is required to arrive under Subsection
  (a); and
               (2) [(3)]  the ballot arrives at the address on the
  carrier envelope not later than the fifth day after the date of the
  election, except that if that date falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or
  legal state or national holiday, then the deadline is extended to
  the next regular business day.
         (e)  A delivery under Subsection (d)(1) [(d)(2)] is timely,
  except as otherwise provided by this title, if the carrier envelope
  or, if applicable, the envelope containing the carrier envelope:
               (1)  is properly addressed with postage or handling
  charges prepaid; and
               (2)  [is sent from an address outside the United
  States; and
               [(3)]  bears a cancellation mark of a recognized postal
  service or a receipt mark of a common or contract carrier or a
  courier indicating a time before the deadline.
         (f)  If the envelope does not bear the cancellation mark or
  receipt mark as required by Subsection (e)(2) [(e)(3)], a delivery
  from an address outside the United States [under Subsection (d)(1)]
  is presumed to be timely if the other requirements under this
  section are met.  [Section 1.006 does not apply to Subsection
  (d)(3).]
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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