By: Bohac (Senate Sponsor - Lindsay) H.B. No. 2064
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 14, 2003;
April 15, 2003, read first time and referred to Committee on State
Affairs; May 23, 2003, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 23, 2003, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the procedure for returning an application for an early
voting ballot.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 84.001, Election Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (d-1) to read as
follows:
(d) An [applicant may not use an] application must be
submitted by mail to the early voting clerk for the election who
serves the election precinct of the applicant's residence [form
that is furnished to the applicant unless the application form is
printed or stamped with the name or office or official title of the
early voting clerk as addressee and the clerk's official mailing
address].
(d-1) A timely application that is addressed to the wrong
early voting clerk shall be forwarded to the proper early voting
clerk not later than the day after the date it is received by the
wrong clerk.
SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.
(b) The change in law made by this Act to Section 84.001(d),
Election Code, applies only to an application to vote an early
voting ballot by mail for an election that is ordered on or after
the effective date of this Act.
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