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.