Bill Text: TX HB675 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the days and hours early voting is conducted at a temporary branch early voting polling place.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-17 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB675 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB675-Introduced.html
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By: Fallon | H.B. No. 675 |
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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 [ |
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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. |