H.B. No. 2110

AN ACT

relating to requirements for certain election officers.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 32.054(a), Election Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a) A person is ineligible to serve as an election judge or clerk in an election if the person is employed by or related within the second degree by consanguinity or affinity, as determined under Chapter 573, Government Code, to an opposed candidate for a public office or a [the] party office in any precinct in which the office appears on the ballot [of county chair in the election]. For purposes of this subsection, a candidate whose name appears on the ballot is not considered to be opposed by a write-in candidate other than a declared write-in candidate under Chapter 146.

SECTION 2. The heading to Section 62.003, Election Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 62.003. [OATH OF] ELECTION OFFICERS: OATH AND IDENTIFICATION.

SECTION 3. Section 62.003, Election Code, is amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:

(c) Following administration of the oath, each election officer shall be issued a form of identification, prescribed by the secretary of state, to be displayed by the officer during the officer's hours of service at the polling place.

SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.

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President of the Senate Speaker of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 2110 was passed by the House on May 8, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, 2 present, not voting.

______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 2110 was passed by the Senate on May 22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________

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Governor