Bill Text: TX SB283 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the offense of unlawfully prohibiting an employee from voting.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-30 - Referred to State Affairs [SB283 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB283-Introduced.html
85R3177 GRM-D | ||
By: Watson | S.B. No. 283 |
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relating to the offense of unlawfully prohibiting an employee from | ||
voting. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 276.004(a) and (b), Election Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) A person commits an offense if, with respect to another | ||
person over whom the person has authority in the scope of | ||
employment, the person knowingly: | ||
(1) refuses to permit the other person to be absent | ||
from work on election day or while early voting is in progress for | ||
the purpose of attending the polls to vote; or | ||
(2) subjects or threatens to subject the other person | ||
to a penalty for attending the polls on election day or while early | ||
voting is in progress to vote. | ||
(b) It is an exception to the application of this section | ||
that the person's conduct occurs in connection with an election in | ||
which the polls are open on election day or while early voting is in | ||
progress for voting for two consecutive hours outside of the | ||
voter's working hours. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |