By Patterson S.B. No. 1089
75R3749 DRH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the contents of an application for an early voting mail
1-3 ballot.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 84.002(a), Election Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) An early voting ballot application must include:
1-8 (1) the applicant's name and the address at which the
1-9 applicant is registered to vote;
1-10 (2) for an application for a ballot to be voted by
1-11 mail:
1-12 (A) [,] the address to which the ballot is to be
1-13 mailed;
1-14 (B) [and] an indication of each election for
1-15 which the voter is applying for a ballot; and
1-16 (C) a statement verifying the applicant's
1-17 identity signed by the applicant's spouse or by another appropriate
1-18 person; and
1-19 (3) an indication of the ground of eligibility for
1-20 early voting.
1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.