Amend CSSB 7 (senate committee printing) as follows:
(1) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to ARTICLE 3 of the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of ARTICLE 3 accordingly:
SECTION 3.____. Subchapter B, Chapter 33, Election Code, is amended by adding Section 33.036 to read as follows:
Sec. 33.036. TRAINING. (a) To be eligible to serve as a watcher, a person must complete the training required of election judges under Subchapter F, Chapter 32.
(b) The secretary of state shall adopt rules to implement this section.
(2) In the recital to SECTION 4.02 of the bill (page 12, line 6), strike "Subsection (g)" and substitute "Subsections (g) and (h)".
(3) In SECTION 4.02 of the bill, amending Section 33.051, Election Code (page 12, between lines 10 and 11), insert the following:
(h) Before accepting a watcher, the officer presented with a watcher's certificate of appointment shall require the watcher to take the following oath, administered by the officer: "I swear (or affirm) that I will not disrupt the voting process or harass voters in the discharge of my duties."