By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 62

(In the Senate - Filed November 12, 2024; February 3, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; March 5, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 1; March 5, 2025, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 62 By: Hughes

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the reading and marking of a ballot by a person occupying a voting station or by the person's child.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 64.002(b), Election Code, is amended to read as follows:

(b) A child under 18 years of age may accompany the child's parent to a voting station, and, if the child is under 14 years of age, the child may read or mark the ballot at the direction of the parent. Reading or marking a ballot under this subsection does not constitute assisting a voter for purposes of Subchapter B.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

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