Bill Text: TX SB1116 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a county, city, or independent school district posting election notices and results on an Internet website.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-08 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB1116 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1116-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 1116 |
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relating to a county, city, or independent school district posting | ||
election notices and results on an Internet website. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 65, Election Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 65.016 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 65.016. INTERNET POSTING OF ELECTION RESULTS. (a) A | ||
county that holds or provides election services for an election and | ||
maintains an Internet website shall post on its public Internet | ||
website for an election of public officials or of a governmental | ||
entity authorized by law to impose a tax administered by the county: | ||
(1) the results of each election; | ||
(2) the total number of votes cast; | ||
(3) the total number of votes cast for each candidate | ||
or for or against each measure; | ||
(4) the total number of votes cast by personal | ||
appearance on election day; | ||
(5) the total number of votes cast by personal | ||
appearance or mail during the early voting period; and | ||
(6) the total number of counted and uncounted | ||
provisional ballots cast. | ||
(b) A city or independent school district that holds an | ||
election and maintains an Internet website shall post on its public | ||
Internet website for the city or independent school district, as | ||
applicable: | ||
(1) the results of each election; | ||
(2) the total number of votes cast; | ||
(3) the total number of votes cast for each candidate | ||
or for or against each measure; | ||
(4) the total number of votes cast by personal | ||
appearance on election day; | ||
(5) the total number of votes cast by personal | ||
appearance or mail during the early voting period; and | ||
(6) the total number of counted and uncounted | ||
provisional ballots cast. | ||
(c) The information described by Subsections (a) and (b) | ||
must be: | ||
(1) posted as soon as practicable after the election; | ||
and | ||
(2) accessible without having to make more than two | ||
selections or view more than two network locations after accessing | ||
the Internet website home page of the county, city, or district, as | ||
applicable. | ||
SECTION 2. Chapter 4, Election Code, is amended by adding | ||
Section 4.009 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 4.009. INTERNET POSTING. (a) Not later than the 21st | ||
day before election day, a county that holds or provides election | ||
services for an election and maintains an Internet website shall | ||
post on its public Internet website for an election of public | ||
officials or of a governmental entity authorized by law to impose a | ||
tax administered by the county: | ||
(1) the date of the election; | ||
(2) the location of each polling place; | ||
(3) each candidate for an elected office on the | ||
ballot; and | ||
(4) each measure on the ballot. | ||
(b) Not later than the 21st day before election day, a city | ||
or independent school district that holds an election and maintains | ||
an Internet website shall post on the public Internet website for | ||
the city or independent school district, as applicable: | ||
(1) the date of the next election; | ||
(2) the location of each polling place; | ||
(3) each candidate for an elected office on the | ||
ballot; and | ||
(4) each measure on the ballot. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1116 passed the Senate on | ||
April 13, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that | ||
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 27, 2021, by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1116 passed the House, with | ||
amendment, on May 23, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 146, | ||
Nays 0, one present not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
______________________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |