By: Elkins (Senate Sponsor - Bettencourt) H.B. No. 2778
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 2015;
  May 12, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on State
  Affairs; May 19, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote:  
  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 19, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the elections for which federal postcard applicant
  voters may be sent ballots by e-mail.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 101.104, Election Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 101.104.  ELECTIONS COVERED. Balloting  [The e-mail
  transmission of balloting] materials may be sent by e-mail under
  this subchapter for any election in which the voter who registers
  under this chapter is eligible to vote [is limited to:
               [(1)     an election in which an office of the federal
  government appears on the ballot, including a primary election;
               [(2)     an election to fill a vacancy in the legislature
  unless:
                     [(A)     the election is ordered as an emergency
  election under Section 41.0011; or
                     [(B)     the election is held as an expedited
  election under Section 203.013; or
               [(3)     an election held jointly with an election
  described by Subdivision (1) or (2)].
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
 
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