By: Toth H.B. No. 4733
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the systems used in a central counting station.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 127.1301(b), Election Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (b)  An authority operating a central counting station under
  this chapter may not purchase or use a [centrally counted optical]
  ballot scanner unless the ballot scanner can only use [scan system
  thatuses] a data storage device [disc] on which information, once
  written, is incapable [capable] of being modified without rendering
  the device unreadable.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.