By: Hughes  S.B. No. 1661
         (In the Senate - Filed March 6, 2023; March 16, 2023, read
  first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
  April 6, 2023, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 6, 2023,
  sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1661 By:  Hughes
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
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.
 
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