By Madden H.B. No. 190
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to canceling an application for an early voting ballot to
1-3 be voted by mail.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 84.032(d), Election Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (d) An applicant may also submit a request <on election day>
1-8 by appearing in person <at the applicant's precinct polling place>
1-9 and returning the ballot to be voted by mail to:
1-10 (1) the early voting clerk or deputy early voting
1-11 clerk at any polling place that is open for early voting by
1-12 personal appearance; or
1-13 (2) the presiding election judge on election day at
1-14 the applicant's precinct polling place.
1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.