Amend CSSB 14 (house committee printing) as follows:

(1)  In SECTION 18 of the bill, in added Section 65.0541(a), Election Code (page 12, line 27), strike "sixth" and substitute "seventh business".

(2)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Section 65.051(a), Election Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a)  The early voting ballot board shall verify and count provisional ballots as provided by this subchapter not later than the ninth [seventh] day after the date of an election.

SECTION ____.  Section 67.003, Election Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 67.003.  TIME FOR LOCAL CANVASS. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), each local canvassing authority shall convene to conduct the local canvass at the time set by the canvassing authority's presiding officer not earlier than the 10th [eighth] day or later than the 11th day after election day.

(b)  For an election held on the uniform election date in May, the local canvass must occur not later than the 11th day after election day and not earlier than the later of:

(1)  the third day after election day;

(2)  the date on which the early voting ballot board has verified and counted all provisional ballots after giving voters of provisional ballots the opportunity to present identification as provided by Section 65.0541, if a provisional ballot has been cast in the election; or

(3)  the date on which all timely received ballots cast from addresses outside of the United States are counted, if a ballot to be voted by mail in the election was provided to a person outside of the United States.