By Zaffirini S.B. No. 395
74R2732 DRH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to public access to certain early voting records.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 87.121(f), Election Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 (f) Information on the roster for a person to whom an early
1-7 voting mail ballot has been sent is not available for public
1-8 inspection, except to the voter seeking to verify that the
1-9 information pertaining to the voter <him> is accurate, until the
1-10 day after election day <24 hours after the time a ballot was mailed
1-11 to the voter>.
1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.