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Amend CSSB 14 (house committee printing) as follows:

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

SECTION ____. Section 1.005, Election Code, is amended by adding Subdivision (25) to read as follows:

(25) "Early voting ballot board" means the early voting and provisional voting ballot board.

(2) In the recital to SECTION 17 of the bill (page 11, line 25), strike "Subsection (b)" and substitute "Subsections (a) and (b)".

(3) In SECTION 17 of the bill, before amended Section 65.054(b), Election Code (page 11, between lines 26 and 27), add the following:

(a) The early voting and provisional voting ballot board shall examine each affidavit executed under Section 63.011 and determine whether to accept the provisional ballot of the voter who executed the affidavit.