Bill Text: TX SB20 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a forensic audit of 2020 election results in certain counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-10-04 - Co-author authorized [SB20 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB20-Introduced.html
| By: Hall | S.B. No. 20 | |
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| relating to a forensic audit of 2020 election results in certain | ||
| counties. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Title 16, Election Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Chapter 280 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 280. FORENSIC AUDIT OF 2020 GENERAL ELECTION | ||
| Sec. 280.001. FORENSIC AUDIT OF 2020 GENERAL ELECTION. (a) | ||
| The Secretary of State and Attorney General shall conduct a joint | ||
| forensic audit of the general election that took place on November | ||
| 3, 2020. | ||
| (b) The joint forensic audit conducted under Subsection (a) | ||
| shall audit every precinct in each county where there is a | ||
| discrepancy between the total number of votes counted and voters | ||
| counted as having voted. | ||
| (c) The audit under this section must begin not later than | ||
| November 1, 2021, and be completed not later than February 1, 2022. | ||
| (d) Not later than March 1, 2022, the results of the audit | ||
| shall be submitted to the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of | ||
| the house of representatives, and each member of the legislature | ||
| detailing any anomalies or discrepancies in voter data, ballot | ||
| data, or tabulation. | ||
| (e) This chapter expires April 1, 2022. | ||
| 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
