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Amend Amendment No. 2 by Murr to CSSB 1 by adding the following appropriately numbered item to the amendment and renumbering subsequent items of the amendment accordingly:
(____) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to ARTICLE 1 of the bill and renumber the SECTIONS of that ARTICLE as appropriate:
SECTION 1.____. Section 1.005, Election Code, is amended by amending Subdivision (4-a) and adding Subdivision (4-b) to read as follows:
(4-a) "Election official" means:
(A) a county clerk;
(B) a permanent or temporary deputy county clerk;
(C) an elections administrator;
(D) a permanent or temporary employee of an elections administrator;
(E) an election judge;
(F) an alternate election judge;
(G) an early voting clerk;
(H) a deputy early voting clerk;
(I) an election clerk;
(J) the presiding judge of an early voting ballot board;
(K) the alternate presiding judge of an early voting ballot board;
(L) a member of an early voting ballot board;
(M) the chair of a signature verification committee;
(N) the vice chair of a signature verification committee;
(O) a member of a signature verification committee;
(P) the presiding judge of a central counting station;
(Q) the alternate presiding judge of a central counting station;
(R) a central counting station manager;
(S) a central counting station clerk;
(T) a tabulation supervisor;
(U) an assistant to a tabulation supervisor; and
(V) a chair of a county political party holding a primary election or a runoff primary election.
(4-b) "Federal judge" means:
(A) a judge, former judge, or retired judge of a United States court of appeals;
(B) a judge, former judge, or retired judge of a United States district court;
(C) a judge, former judge, or retired judge of a United States bankruptcy court; or
(D) a magistrate judge, former magistrate judge, or retired magistrate judge of a United States district court.