Amend CSSB 2753 (senate committee report) as follows:
(1) In SECTION 3 of the bill, in amended Section 42.0051(a), Election Code (page 1, line 59), strike "5,000" and substitute "3,000".
(2) In SECTION 3 of the bill, at the end of added Section 42.0051(d), Election Code (page 2, line 24), add the following:
If a county has more than one combined precinct under Subsection (c), the number of voters contained in the smallest combined precinct in the county may not be less than 95 percent of the number of voters contained in the largest combined precinct in the county.
(3) In SECTION 15 of the bill, in amended Section 85.001(e), Election Code (page 4, line 40), strike "fourth" and substitute "[fourth]".
(4) In the recital to SECTION 16 of the bill (page 4, line 42), strike "and (b)" and substitute ", (b), and (c)".
(5) In SECTION 16 of the bill, in amended Section 85.005(a), Election Code (page 4, line 48), strike "holiday] and" and substitute "holiday and]".
(6) At the end of SECTION 16 of the bill, after amended Section 85.005(b), Election Code (page 4, between lines 59 and 60), add the following:
(c) Voting in a primary election, [or] the general election for state and county officers, or a special election ordered by the governor shall be conducted at the main early voting polling place for at least 12 consecutive hours on each [weekday] of the last four days [week] of the early voting period except that voting shall be conducted for at least nine consecutive hours on a Sunday[, and the voting in a special election ordered by the governor shall be conducted at the main early voting polling place for at least 12 consecutive hours on each of the last two days of the early voting period]. Voting under this subsection may not be conducted earlier than 6 a.m. or later than 10 p.m.
(7) In SECTION 20 of the bill, at the end of amended Section 85.071, Election Code (page 5, between lines 53 and 54), add the following:
(d) At the close of the polls on election day, voted early voting ballots to be counted using automatic tabulating equipment shall be delivered with the ballots voted on election day at the same polling place to the central counting station according to Section 87.129 and the procedures under Subchapter C, Chapter 127.