By: Davis  S.B. No. 2067
         (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 2009; March 31, 2009, read
  first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
  April 27, 2009, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
  Nays 0; April 27, 2009, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to access to precinct conventions by the elderly and
  persons with physical disabilities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subsection (d), Section 174.022, Election Code,
  is amended to read as follows:
         (d)  The place selected for a precinct convention must meet
  the same requirements for access by the elderly and persons with
  physical disabilities as a polling place under Section 43.034(a)
  [unless the state executive committee for a political party issues
  an order that the places for precinct conventions for that
  political party are not required to meet the same requirements as a
  polling place under Section 43.034(a). The order must be entered in
  the minutes of the state executive committee not later than the 30th
  day before the date precinct conventions are to be held].
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
 
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