S.B. No. 427




AN ACT

relating to providing notification to a county voter registrar of 
the change in boundaries of a political subdivision and to notice 
regarding the location of a polling place.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 42, Election Code, is 
amended by adding Section 42.0615 to read as follows:
	Sec. 42.0615.  NOTICE TO REGISTRAR OF BOUNDARY CHANGE OF 
POLITICAL SUBDIVISION.  A political subdivision that changes its 
boundaries or the boundaries of districts used to elect members to 
the governing body of the political subdivision shall not later 
than the 30th day after the date the change is adopted:
		(1)  notify the voter registrar of the county in which 
the area subject to the boundary change is located of the adopted 
boundary change; and
		(2)  provide the voter registrar with a map of an 
adopted boundary change in a format that is compatible with the 
mapping format used by the registrar's office.
	SECTION 2.  (a)  Subsection (b), Section 43.061, Election 
Code, is amended to read as follows:
	(b)  If the location of a polling place changes after notice 
of an election is given under Section 4.003, the county clerk shall 
give notice of the change not later than the earlier of:
		(1)  24 hours after the location is changed;  or                              
		(2)  72 [24] hours before the polls open on election 
day.
	(b)  The change in law made by this section applies only to an 
election ordered on or after the effective date of this Act.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.                           





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President of the Senate             Speaker of the House
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 427 passed the Senate on 
March 31, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that 
the Senate concurred in House amendments on May 26, 2005, by the 
following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.




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   Secretary of the Senate             
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 427 passed the House, with 
amendments, on May 20, 2005, by a non-record vote.




______________________________ 
   Chief Clerk of the House            



Approved:


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            Date



______________________________ 
          Governor