81R3147 DRH-D
 
  By: Flynn H.B. No. 719
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to certain content requirements for signs used to identify
  the location of a polling place during a primary election.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 172, Election Code, is
  amended by adding Section 172.127 to read as follows:
         Sec. 172.127.  CONTENT OF SIGN USED TO IDENTIFY POLLING
  PLACE LOCATION. (a) This section applies only to a polling place
  used to hold an election for more than one political party.
         (b)  A sign used to indicate the location of a polling place
  for a primary election or a primary runoff election must either:
               (1)  not contain the name of, or symbol representing,
  any political party that is holding an election at the polling
  place; or
               (2)  contain each name of, or each symbol representing,
  a political party that is holding an election at the polling place.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.