Amend CSSB 1 (house committee report) by striking the SECTION of the bill containing the effective date of the Act and substituting the following appropriately numbered SECTION:

SECTION ____.  This Act takes effect on the later of:

(1)  the date on which the secretary of state submits a study to the legislature that:

(A)  provides an analysis of the effects of this Act on voters who vote by mail and voters who may desire to vote by mail, disaggregated by ethnicity, race, and county;

(B)  provides an analysis of the potential impact of the changes in law made by this Act on voter turnout based on:

(i)  aggregate county-level turnout data; and

(ii)  survey data from current population surveys conducted by the United States Census Bureau;

(C)  provides an analysis of the potential impact of the changes in law made by this Act on the election-related activities, including voting, of community members who are members of racial and ethnic minority groups;

(D)  uses legal and social scientific methods that:

(i)  are consistently used in published research journals; and

(ii)  have been recognized as reliable in one or more published court opinions; and

(E)  is performed by academics employed by a university in this state rated at "tier one" by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education under a contract entered into with the secretary of state; or

(2)  the 91st day after the last day of the legislative session.