S.B. No. 1661
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to a ballot scan system used in a central counting station.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 127.1301(b), Election Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (b)  An authority operating a central counting station under
  this chapter may only [not] purchase or use a [centrally counted
  optical] ballot scan system if the system is only capable of using
  [that uses] a data transfer media device that:
               (1)  [storage disc on which information,] once a cast
  vote record is written, is incapable [capable] of being modified
  without automatic:
                     (A)  detection of the modification; and
                     (B)  rejection of the cast vote record; and
               (2)  does not allow for the process under Subdivision
  (1) to be overridden or circumvented.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
 
 
 
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1661 passed the Senate on
  April 20, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 29, Nays 2.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1661 passed the House on
  May 23, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 145, Nays 0, two
  present not voting.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
 
  Approved:
 
  ______________________________ 
              Date
 
 
  ______________________________ 
            Governor