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.) Click here to see the committee vote

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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