Bill Text: TX SB722 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to eligibility to serve as an interpreter in an election.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Vetoed) 2013-06-14 - Vetoed by the Governor [SB722 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB722-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 722 | ||
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| relating to eligibility to serve as an interpreter in an election. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 61.032, Election Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 61.032. INTERPRETER PERMITTED. If an election officer | ||
| who attempts to communicate with a voter does not understand the | ||
| language used by the voter, the voter may communicate through an | ||
| interpreter selected by the voter or by the authority ordering the | ||
| election. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 61.033, Election Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 61.033. ELIGIBILITY TO SERVE AS INTERPRETER. To be | ||
| eligible to serve as an interpreter, a person: | ||
| (1) if selected by the voter, may be any person other | ||
| than the voter's employer, an agent of the voter's employer, or an | ||
| officer or agent of a labor union to which the voter belongs; or | ||
| (2) if appointed to serve as an interpreter by the | ||
| authority ordering the election, must be a registered voter of the | ||
| county in which the voter needing the interpreter resides or a | ||
| registered voter of an adjacent county. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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 September 1, 2013. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 722 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 24, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 26, Nays 4. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 722 passed the House on | ||
| May 22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 6, two | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
