Bill Text: TX SB1112 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
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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-Comm_Sub.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-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Bettencourt, et al. | S.B. No. 1112 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed March 5, 2021; March 18, 2021, read | ||
| first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; | ||
| April 1, 2021, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
| Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 2; April 6, 2021, | ||
| sent to printer.) | ||
| COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1112 | By: Birdwell | |
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| relating to requirements for 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 REQUIREMENTS FOR BALLOT VOTED | ||
| BY MAIL PROHIBITED. (a) A county clerk, elections administrator, | ||
| early voting clerk, or early voting ballot board may not suspend a | ||
| requirement under Section 87.041(b). | ||
| (b) A county clerk, elections administrator, or early | ||
| voting clerk who violates this section by suspending a requirement | ||
| under Section 87.041(b)(2) 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. | ||
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