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78R6821 JRJ-D

By:  Coleman                                                      H.B. No. 2279



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to allowing certain early voting polling places to serve 
as election day polling places.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 43, Election Code, is 
amended by adding Section 43.007 to read as follows:
	Sec. 43.007.  ADDITIONAL POLLING PLACES.  (a)  The authority 
conducting an election shall establish an additional polling place 
at the location of each branch early voting polling place, other 
than a moveable temporary branch early voting polling place, used 
in the election if the authority:
		(1)  conducts the election using a direct recording 
electronic voting machine; and
		(2)  uses an instant electronic system at each polling 
place to verify whether a voter has voted in an election.
	(b)  A polling place established under this section must  
enable a voter of any precinct in the election to cast a ballot.
	(c)  The secretary of state must approve a system to be used 
under Subsection (a)(2).
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003, and 
applies only to an election ordered on or after that date.