Bill Text: TX HB3786 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to public inspection of provisional voting records.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-29 - Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar [HB3786 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3786-Introduced.html
84R12624 ADM-F | ||
By: Phelan | H.B. No. 3786 |
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relating to public inspection of provisional voting records. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 65, Election Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 65.061 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 65.061. REGULATING PUBLIC INSPECTION OF PROVISIONAL | ||
VOTING RECORDS. Provisional voting records do not become public | ||
information until the first business day after the early voting | ||
ballot board verifies and counts the ballots and returns them to the | ||
general custodian of election records. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |