Bill Text: TX HB611 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the acceptance of certain voters at a polling place.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-21 - Referred to Elections [HB611 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB611-Introduced.html
86R3621 SRS-D | ||
By: White | H.B. No. 611 |
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relating to the acceptance of certain voters at a polling place. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 63.0013, Election Code, as added by | ||
Chapter 980 (H.B. 658), Acts of the 85th Legislature, Regular | ||
Session, 2017, is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 63.0013. ACCEPTING CERTAIN VOTERS [ |
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(1) "First responder" has the meaning assigned by | ||
Section 421.095, Government Code. | ||
(2) "Mobility[ |
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impairs a person's ability to ambulate" has the meaning assigned by | ||
Section 681.001, Transportation Code. | ||
(b) An election officer may accept a person with a mobility | ||
problem that substantially impairs a person's ability to ambulate | ||
or a uniformed first responder who is offering to vote before | ||
accepting others offering to vote at the polling place who arrived | ||
before the person. | ||
(c) Notice of the priority given to persons with a mobility | ||
problem that substantially impairs a person's ability to ambulate | ||
or to uniformed first responders shall be posted: | ||
(1) at one or more locations in each polling place | ||
where it can be read by persons waiting to vote; | ||
(2) on the Internet website of the secretary of state; | ||
and | ||
(3) on each Internet website relating to elections | ||
maintained by a county. | ||
(d) The notice required by Subsection (c) must read: | ||
"Pursuant to Section 63.0013, Election Code, an election officer | ||
may give voting order priority to individuals with a mobility | ||
problem that substantially impairs the person's ability to move | ||
around or to uniformed first responders. A person assisting an | ||
individual with a mobility problem may also, at the individual's | ||
request, be given voting order priority. Disabilities and | ||
conditions that may qualify you for voting order priority include | ||
paralysis, lung disease, the use of portable oxygen, cardiac | ||
deficiency, severe limitation in the ability to walk due to | ||
arthritic, neurological, or orthopedic condition, wheelchair | ||
confinement, arthritis, foot disorder, the inability to walk 200 | ||
feet without stopping to rest, or use of a brace, cane, crutch, or | ||
other assistive device." | ||
(e) A person assisting a voter in accordance with Section | ||
64.032(c) may be accepted to vote concurrently with a person | ||
accepted under Subsection (b) of this section at the voter's | ||
request. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |