Bill Text: TX SB1112 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to requirements for an early voting ballot voted by mail; creating a criminal offense.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-25 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB1112 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1112-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to requirements for an early voting ballot voted by mail; creating a criminal offense.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-25 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB1112 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1112-Introduced.html
87R6977 BRG-D | ||
By: Bettencourt, et al. | S.B. No. 1112 |
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relating to signature verification on an early voting ballot voted | ||
by mail; creating a criminal offense. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 87, Election Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 87.0411 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 87.0411. SUSPENSION OF SIGNATURE VERIFICATION | ||
REQUIREMENT PROHIBITED. (a) A county clerk, elections | ||
administrator, early voting clerk, or early voting ballot board may | ||
not suspend the requirement under Section 87.041(b)(2). | ||
(b) A county clerk, elections administrator, or early | ||
voting clerk who violates this section commits an offense. An | ||
offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, | ||
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For | ||
purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the | ||
effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred | ||
before that date. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |