Bill Text: TX HB4782 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to electioneering conducted near a polling place.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-27 - Left pending in committee [HB4782 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4782-Introduced.html
By: Smith | H.B. No. 4782 |
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relating to electioneering conducted near a polling place. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 61, Election Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 61.003. ELECTIONEERING AND LOITERING NEAR POLLING | ||
PLACE. (a) A person commits an offense if, during the voting | ||
period and within 100 feet of an outside door through which a voter | ||
may enter the building in which a polling place is located, the | ||
person: | ||
(1) loiters; |
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(2) electioneers for or against any candidate, | ||
measure, or political party |
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(3) conducts exit polling. | ||
(a-1) The entity that owns or controls a public building | ||
being used as a polling place may not, at any time during the voting | ||
period, prohibit electioneering on the building's premises outside | ||
of the area described in Subsection (a), but may enact reasonable | ||
regulations concerning the time, place, and manner of | ||
electioneering. | ||
(b) In this section: | ||
(1) "Electioneering" includes the posting, use, or | ||
distribution of political signs or literature. The term does not | ||
include the distribution of a notice of a party convention | ||
authorized under Section 172.1114. | ||
(2) "Conducts exit polling" means any person or | ||
persons seeking to communicate with voters exiting the voting | ||
site. | ||
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when the polls open for voting and ending when the polls close or | ||
the last voter has voted, whichever is later. | ||
(c) An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |