Amend HB 1382 (senate committee report) in SECTION 1 of the bill by striking added Subsection 86.015(c), Election Code (page 1, lines 41 through 53), and substituting the following:
(c) An online tool used under this section must:
(1) for each election, record:
(A) each application for a ballot to be voted by mail received by the clerk; and
(B) each carrier envelope sent to a voter by the clerk;
(2) for each carrier envelope, record or assign a serially numbered and sequentially issued barcode or tracking number that is unique to each envelope; and
(3) update the applicable Internet website as soon as practicable after each of the following events occurs:
(A) receipt by the early voting clerk of the person's application for a ballot to be voted by mail;
(B) acceptance or rejection by the early voting clerk of the person's application for a ballot to be voted by mail;
(C) placement in the mail by the early voting clerk of the person's official ballot;
(D) receipt by the early voting clerk of the person's marked ballot; and
(E) acceptance or rejection by the early voting ballot board of a person's marked ballot.