By Patterson S.B. No. 1084
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to prohibiting the use of mobile polling places during the
1-3 early voting period.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 85.062(b), Election Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (b) A polling place established under this section may be
1-8 located, subject to Subsection (d), at any place in the territory
1-9 served by the early voting clerk and may be located in any
1-10 stationary structure[, whether stationary or movable,] as directed
1-11 by the authority establishing the branch office. Ropes or other
1-12 suitable objects may be used at the polling place to ensure
1-13 compliance with Section 62.004. Persons who are not expressly
1-14 permitted by law to be in a polling place shall be excluded from
1-15 the polling place to the extent practicable.
1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.