88R2028 SGM-D
 
  By: Cole H.B. No. 1269
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the deadline for an early voting ballot board to
  determine whether to accept voters' ballots.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 65.051(a), Election Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (a)  The early voting ballot board shall verify and count
  provisional ballots as provided by this subchapter not later than
  the 10th [ninth] day after the date of an election.
         SECTION 2.  Section 87.041, Election Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
         (h)  The early voting ballot board shall determine whether to
  accept mail ballots as provided by this section not later than the
  10th day after the date of an election.
         SECTION 3.  Section 87.0431(a), Election Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (a)  Not later than the 10th day after the local canvass
  [election day], the presiding judge of the early voting ballot
  board shall deliver written notice of the reason for the rejection
  of a ballot to the voter at the residence address on the ballot
  application. If the ballot was transmitted to the voter by e-mail
  under Subchapter C, Chapter 101, the presiding judge shall also
  provide the notice to the e-mail address to which the ballot was
  sent.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.