By:  Harper-Brown (Senate Sponsor - Staples)                      H.B. No. 2093
	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 14, 2003; 
April 15, 2003, read first time and referred to Committee on State 
Affairs; May 15, 2003, reported favorably by the following vote:  
Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 15, 2003, sent to printer.)


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

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repealed.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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