Amend CSSB 1 (senate committee printing) as follows:
(1) In SECTION 2.13, amending Section 127.1232, Election Code, strike Subsections (b) and (c) (page 7, lines 3 through 18) and substitute the following:
(b) The general custodian of election records shall implement a video surveillance system that retains a record of all areas containing voted ballots:
(1) from the time the voted ballots are delivered to the central counting station until the canvass of precinct election returns; and
(2) from the time the voted ballots are delivered to the signature verification committee or early voting ballot board until the canvass of precinct election returns.
(c) A video from a system implemented under Subsection (b) shall be made available to the public by a livestream.
(2) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to ARTICLE 3 of the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of ARTICLE 3 accordingly:
SECTION 3.___. Subchapter A, Chapter 33, Election Code, is amended by adding Section 33.0015 to read as follows:
Sec. 33.0015. REFERENCES TO EARLY VOTING BALLOT BOARD IN THIS CHAPTER. A reference in this chapter to an early voting ballot board includes a signature verification committee.
(3) Strike SECTION 2.04 (page 4, lines 28 through 33) and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of ARTICLE 2 accordingly.