H.B. No. 2093




AN ACT

relating to electioneering regulations during early voting.                   
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Sections 85.036(a) and (d), Election Code, are 
amended to read as follows:
	(a)  During [Except as provided by Subsection (b), during]  
the time an early voting polling place is open for the conduct of 
early voting, a person may not electioneer for or against any 
candidate, measure, or political party in or within 100 feet of an 
outside door through which a voter may enter [a certain distance 
from] the building or structure in which the early voting polling 
place is located[, as follows:
		[(1)  for a building containing the main early voting 
polling place, a person may not electioneer in the room in which the 
polling place is located or within 30 feet of the entrance to the 
room in which the polling place is located;
		[(2)  for a building that is also used as a precinct 
polling place, a person may not electioneer within 100 feet of an 
outside door through which a voter may enter the building in which 
the polling place is located;  and
		[(3)  for any other structure, a person may not 
electioneer within 30 feet of the entrance to the voting area].
	(d)  A person commits an offense if the person electioneers 
in violation of Subsection (a) [or (b)].
	SECTION 2.  Sections 85.036(b) and (f), Election Code, are 
repealed.         
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.                           




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   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 2093 was passed by the House on April 
10, 2003, by a non-record vote.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	I certify that H.B. No. 2093 was passed by the Senate on May 
22, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Secretary of the Senate    



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                 Governor