Amend CSSB 7 (house committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Section 64.031, Election Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 64.031. ELIGIBILITY FOR ASSISTANCE. A voter is eligible to receive assistance in marking or reading the ballot, as provided by this subchapter, if the voter cannot prepare or read the ballot because of:

(1)  a physical disability that renders the voter unable to write or see; or

(2)  an inability to read the language in which the ballot is written.

SECTION ____. Section 64.032, Election Code, is amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: