By Seidlits H.B. No. 2110
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the procedures used before processing electronic voting
1-3 system ballots at a central counting station.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 127.061, Election Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 127.061. Requirement <Authority> to Use Sealed Ballot
1-8 Boxes. An <As an alternative to the procedure of Subchapter B,
1-9 the> authority adopting an electronic <the> voting system in which
1-10 ballots are to be counted at a central counting station shall <may
1-11 provide by resolution, order, or other official action for the> use
1-12 <of> sealed ballot boxes in accordance with this subchapter.
1-13 SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 127, Election Code, is
1-14 repealed.
1-15 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-16 SECTION 4. 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.