Bill Text: TX HB62 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the method of returning a ballot to be voted by mail.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-07-08 - Referred to Constitutional Rights & Remedies [HB62 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB62-Introduced.html
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| By: Bucy | H.B. No. 62 | |
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| relating to the method of returning a ballot to be voted by mail. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 4.003, Election Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (b-1) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (b) In addition to any other notice given for an election | ||
| under Subsection (a), not later than the 21st day before election | ||
| day, a county shall post a copy of a notice of the election given by | ||
| the county or provided to the county under Section 4.008(a)[ |
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| Internet website, if the county maintains a website. An authority | ||
| responsible for giving notice of an election may post a copy of the | ||
| notice on the bulletin board used for posting notices of the | ||
| meetings of the governing body of the political subdivision that | ||
| the authority serves. If a county does not maintain a website, the | ||
| authority responsible for giving notice of the election shall post | ||
| a copy of a notice of the election on the bulletin board used for | ||
| posting notices of the meetings of the governing body of the | ||
| political subdivision that the authority serves. For each precinct | ||
| that is combined to form a consolidated precinct under Section | ||
| 42.008, not later than the 10th day before election day, the | ||
| authority shall also post, at the polling place used in the | ||
| preceding general election, notice of the precinct's consolidation | ||
| and the location of the polling place in the consolidated precinct. | ||
| A notice posted under this subsection must remain posted | ||
| continuously through election day. | ||
| (b-1) The notice given under Subsection (b) must include: | ||
| (1) the location of each polling place that will be | ||
| open on election day; | ||
| (2) the location of each polling place that will be | ||
| open for early voting; and | ||
| (3) each location that will be available to voters to | ||
| deliver a marked ballot under Section 86.006(a-2). | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 86.006, Election Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (a-1) and adding Subsections (a-2) and (a-3) to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (a-1) The voter may deliver a marked ballot in person to the | ||
| early voting clerk's office or to another designated location at | ||
| any time after receiving the ballot [ |
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| may return only the voter's own ballot and must present an | ||
| acceptable form of identification described by Section 63.0101. | ||
| (a-2) The county clerk may designate any of the following | ||
| locations for delivering marked ballots under Subsection (a-1): | ||
| (1) the early voting clerk's office; | ||
| (2) any polling place open for early voting or for | ||
| election day; or | ||
| (3) any suitable location that meets criteria | ||
| prescribed by the secretary of state. | ||
| (a-3) To ensure that locations designated for delivering | ||
| marked ballots are accessible and secure, the secretary of state | ||
| shall adopt rules establishing criteria for a location that a | ||
| county clerk may designate under Subsection (a-2). | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
| last day of the legislative session. | ||
