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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the oath taken by a person who assists a voter. |
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BE IT ENACTED |
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BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 64.034, Election Code, is amended to |
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read as follows: |
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Sec. 64.034. OATH. A person selected to provide assistance |
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to a voter must take the following oath, administered by an election |
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officer at the polling place, before providing assistance: |
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"I swear (or affirm) that I will not suggest, by word, |
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sign, or gesture, how the voter should vote; I will confine my |
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assistance to answering the voter's questions, to stating |
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propositions on the ballot, and to naming candidates and, if |
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listed, their political parties; [and] I will prepare the voter's |
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ballot as the voter directs; and I am not the voter's employer, |
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an agent of the voter's employer, or an officer or agent of a |
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labor union to which the voter belongs." |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |