Bill Text: TX SB25 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to procedures for early voting by mail or voting by mail.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-07-07 - Filed [SB25 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB25-Introduced.html
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| By: Campbell | S.B. No. 25 | |
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| relating to procedures for early voting by mail or voting by mail. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 81, Election Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Section 81.006 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 81.006. MODIFICATION OF EARLY VOTING BY MAIL OR VOTING | ||
| BY MAIL QUALIFICATIONS AND PROCEDURES. Except as specifically | ||
| permitted by statute, the qualifications and procedures for early | ||
| voting by mail or voting by mail may not be amended or suspended for | ||
| any reason. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 418.016, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (i) to read as follows: | ||
| (i) Notwithstanding Subsection (a) and except as provided | ||
| by this subsection, the governor may not suspend a provision of a | ||
| statute, order, or rule under this section if the provision, order, | ||
| or rule is related to the qualifications or procedures for early | ||
| voting by mail or voting by mail. On declaration of a state of | ||
| disaster, the governor may suspend Section 86.006(a-1), Election | ||
| Code, only for the purpose of allowing a voter registered to vote at | ||
| an address located in a disaster area to deliver a marked ballot to | ||
| the early voting clerk's office on or before election day. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 418.108, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (j) to read as follows: | ||
| (j) The presiding officer of the governing body of a | ||
| political subdivision may not suspend a provision of a statute, | ||
| order, or rule under this section if the provision, order, or rule | ||
| is related to the qualifications or procedures for early voting by | ||
| mail or voting by mail. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
| last day of the legislative session. | ||
