Bill Text: TX HB431 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 431 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to ineligibility to serve as a poll watcher.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-10 - Point of order sustained Rule 8, Section 13(b) [HB431 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB431-Comm_Sub.html

	86R20104 SRS-F

	By: Shaheen	H.B. No. 431

	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 431:

	By: Klick	C.S.H.B. No. 431



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to ineligibility to serve as a poll watcher.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 33.006(b), Election Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(b) A certificate of appointment must:
	(1) be in writing and signed by the appointing
	authority or, for an appointment for a write-in candidate under
	Section 33.004, by each of the voters making the appointment;
	(2) indicate the capacity in which the appointing
	authority is acting;
	(3) state the name, residence address, and voter
	registration number of the appointee and be signed by the
	appointee;
	(4) identify the election and the precinct polling
	place or other location at which the appointee is to serve;
	(5) in an election on a measure, identify the measure
	if more than one is to be voted on and state which side of the
	measure the appointee represents; and
	(6) contain an affidavit executed by the appointee
	stating that the appointee:
	(A) will not have possession of a device capable
	of recording images or sound or that the appointee will disable or
	deactivate the device while serving as a watcher; and
	(B) has not been finally convicted of a felony
	offense.
	SECTION 2. Section 33.035, Election Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	Sec. 33.035. INELIGIBILITY OF PERSON CONVICTED OF CERTAIN
	OFFENSES [~~ELECTION OFFENSE~~]. A person is ineligible to serve as a
	watcher in an election if the person has been finally convicted of:
	(1) a felony offense; or
	(2) an offense in connection with conduct directly
	attributable to an election.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.