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Amend CSSB 1 (house committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to ARTICLE 4 of the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of that ARTICLE accordingly:
SECTION 4.____.  Section 33.006(b), Election Code, is amended to read as follows:
(b)  A certificate of appointment must:
(1)  be in writing and signed by the appointing authority or, for an appointment for a write-in candidate under Section 33.004, by each of the voters making the appointment;
(2)  indicate the capacity in which the appointing authority is acting;
(3)  state the name, residence address, and voter registration number of the appointee and be signed by the appointee;
(4)  identify the election and the precinct polling place or other location at which the appointee is to serve;
(4-a) indicate whether the watcher will be compensated for service and by whom;
(5)  in an election on a measure, identify the measure if more than one is to be voted on and state which side of the measure the appointee represents; and
(6)  contain an affidavit executed by the appointee stating that the appointee will not have possession of a device capable of recording images or sound or that the appointee will disable or deactivate the device while serving as a watcher.