Amend CSHB 1382 (house committee printing) to read as follows:
(1) On page 1, strike lines 10 through 14 and substitute the following:
voting clerk that:
(1) enables a person who submits an application for a ballot to be voted by mail to track the location and status of the person's application and ballot on the secretary's Internet website and on the county's Internet website if the early voting clerk is the county clerk of a county that maintains an Internet website; and
(2) assigns to each person who submits an application for a ballot to be voted by mail a unique code that:
(A) is readable by an electronic device; and
(B) may be used to verify the authenticity of the person's ballot.
(2) On page 2, between lines 12 and 13, insert the following appropriately numbered subsections and renumber subsequent subsections accordingly:
(____) An online tool used under this section must enable a person who submits an application for a ballot to be voted by mail to verify that the person's name is not being used on a different ballot application or ballot.
(____) Each early voting ballot voted by mail must include the unique code created by an online tool used under this section.
(3) On page 2, at the end of line 14, add "The secretary by rule shall provide for the design and distribution of a unique code system in a manner that, to the greatest extent possible, prevents the unauthorized reproduction or misuse of mail ballots.".