By Hirschi H.B. No. 2699
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to late voting because of death in immediate family.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 103 and Section 103.001(a), Election
1-5 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 CHAPTER 103. LATE VOTING BECAUSE OF DEATH IN ((IMMEDIATE))
1-7 FAMILY.
1-8 Sec. 103.001. Eligibility. (a) A qualified voter is
1-9 eligible to vote a late ballot as provided by this chapter if:
1-10 (1) the voter will be absent from the county of
1-11 residence on election day due to the death of a spouse, parent,
1-12 child, or grandparent <(because of the death of a person related to
1-13 the voter within the first degree by consanguinity or affinity, as
1-14 determined under Article 5996h, Revised Statutes)>; and
1-15 (2) the death occurs on or after the day before the
1-16 last day of the period for early voting by personal appearance.
1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.