Amend SB 1540 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Section 1.005(4-a), Election Code, is amended to read as follows:

(4-a)  "Election official" means:

(A)  a county clerk;

(B)  a permanent or temporary deputy county clerk;

(C)  an elections administrator;

(D)  a permanent or temporary employee of an elections administrator;

(E)  an election judge;

(F)  an alternate election judge;

(G)  an early voting clerk;

(H)  a deputy early voting clerk;

(I)  an election clerk;

(J)  the presiding judge of an early voting ballot board;

(K)  the alternate presiding judge of an early voting ballot board;

(L)  a member of an early voting ballot board;

(M)  the chair of a signature verification committee;

(N)  the vice chair of a signature verification committee;

(O)  a member of a signature verification committee;

(P)  the presiding judge of a central counting station;

(Q)  the alternate presiding judge of a central counting station;

(R)  a central counting station manager;

(S)  a central counting station clerk;

(T)  a tabulation supervisor;

(U)  an assistant to a tabulation supervisor; [and]

(V)  a chair of a county political party holding a primary election or a runoff primary election; and

(W)  a member, including the chair and vice chair, of a state executive committee of a political party that nominates by primary election under Subtitle B, Title 10.