Bill Text: TX HB675 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 675 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the days and hours early voting is conducted at a temporary branch early voting polling place.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-17 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB675 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB675-Introduced.html

	85R2636 GRM-D

	By: Fallon	H.B. No. 675



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the days and hours early voting is conducted at a
	temporary branch early voting polling place.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 85, Election Code, is
	amended by adding Section 85.0631 to read as follows:
	Sec. 85.0631. DAYS AND HOURS FOR VOTING: TEMPORARY BRANCH.
	(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), early voting by personal
	appearance at a temporary branch polling place may be conducted on
	any one or more days and during any hours of the period for early
	voting by personal appearance, as determined by the authority
	establishing the branch.
	(b) In an election in which the authority ordering the
	election has established at least five temporary branch polling
	places in the territory served by the early voting clerk, early
	voting by personal appearance at no less than 80 percent of the
	temporary branch polling places shall be conducted on the same days
	and during the same hours as voting is conducted at the main early
	voting polling place. For purposes of this subsection, a temporary
	branch polling place does not include a temporary branch polling
	place established at a church.
	(c) The authority authorized under Section 85.006 to order
	early voting on a Saturday or Sunday may order such voting at any
	temporary branch polling place that is not required to conduct
	voting on the same days and during the same hours as voting is
	conducted at the main early voting polling place under Subsection
	(b).
	SECTION 2. Section 85.068(a), Election Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(a) The early voting clerk shall post notice for each
	election stating any dates and the hours that voting on Saturday or
	Sunday will be conducted at a temporary branch polling place [~~under~~
	~~Section 85.064(d) or 85.065(b)~~], if the early voting clerk is a
	county clerk or city secretary under Section 83.002 or 83.005.
	SECTION 3. Sections 85.064 and 85.065, Election Code, are
	repealed.
	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.