87S20773 KJE-D
 
  By: Turner of Dallas H.B. No. 171
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to an exception to the application of the offense of
  illegal voting.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 64.012, Election Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
         (c)  It is an exception to the application of Subsection
  (a)(1) that the person:
               (1)  voted or attempted to vote a provisional ballot in
  accordance with Section 63.011; and
               (2)  did not know:
                     (A)  of the particular circumstances that made the
  person not eligible to vote in the election; or
                     (B)  that those circumstances made the person not
  eligible to vote in the election.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
  An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
  governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,
  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For
  purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the
  effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred
  before that date.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2022.