87S10487 MLH-D
 
  By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 67
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to a training manual for election watchers.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 33, Election Code, is
  amended by adding Section 33.008 to read as follows:
         Sec. 33.008.  TRAINING MANUAL. (a)  The secretary of state
  shall publish and maintain a training manual for watchers and shall
  make the manual available on the secretary of state's Internet
  website.
         (b)  An appointing authority must provide each watcher
  appointed by the authority with a copy of the training manual
  maintained under this section.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the
  last day of the legislative session.