By: Miller of Fort Bend H.B. No. 2475
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the oath taken by a person who assists a voter.
         BE IT ENACTED
  BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 64.034, Election Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 64.034.  OATH.  A person selected to provide assistance
  to a voter must take the following oath, administered by an election
  officer at the polling place, before providing assistance:
         "I swear (or affirm) that I will not suggest, by word,
  sign, or gesture, how the voter should vote; I will confine my
  assistance to answering the voter's questions, to stating
  propositions on the ballot, and to naming candidates and, if
  listed, their political parties; [and] I will prepare the voter's
  ballot as the voter directs; and I am not the voter's employer,
  an agent of the voter's employer, or an officer or agent of a
  labor union to which the voter belongs."
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.