Bill Text: TX HB949 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub


Bill Title: Relating to voting system equipment used by counties participating in the countywide polling place program.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-03 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB949 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB949-Comm_Sub.html
  85R19374 ADM-F
 
  By: Villalba, Anchia, Laubenberg H.B. No. 949
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 949:
 
  By:  Anderson of Dallas C.S.H.B. No. 949
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to voting system equipment used by counties participating
  in the countywide polling place program.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 43.007(c) and (d), Election Code, are
  amended to read as follows:
         (c)  In conducting the program, the secretary of state shall
  provide for an audit of the voting system [direct recording
  electronic voting] units used before and after the election, and
  during the election to the extent such an audit is practicable.
         (d)  The secretary of state shall select to participate in
  the program each county that:
               (1)  has held a public hearing under Subsection (b);
               (2)  has submitted documentation listing the steps
  taken to solicit input on participating in the program by
  organizations or persons who represent the interests of voters;
               (3)  has implemented a computerized voter registration
  list that allows an election officer at the polling place to verify
  that a voter has not previously voted in the election;
               (4)  uses either direct recording electronic voting
  machines or a voting system capable of printing all available
  ballot styles of that polling place; and
               (5)  is determined by the secretary of state to have the
  appropriate technological capabilities.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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