HOUSE BILL 1419 |
HOUSE AUTHOR: Jones, Jesse et al. |
EFFECTIVE: 09-01-01 |
SENATE SPONSOR: Whitmire |
House Bill 1419 requires the secretary of state to conduct a study of voting systems, technologies, and strategies. In the study, the secretary of state must reexamine the voting system of each county to determine whether the system complies with applicable standards prescribed by law, study the effectiveness of adopting a uniform voting system to be used by counties statewide, and study innovative available voting technologies and approaches to voting. The bill requires the secretary of state to report the conclusions and recommendations of the study to the governor, the lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of representatives no later than December 1, 2002.