SB 1, Hse 2nd Rdg, Amnd #4

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.