82R11331 SLB-D
By: Veasey H.B. No. 3072
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a requirement for photo identification for poll
watchers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 33.051(b), Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(b) The officer presented with a watcher's certificate of
appointment shall require the watcher to countersign the
certificate and to present a form of photo identification described
by Section 63.0101 to ensure that the watcher is the same person who
signed the certificate. Except as provided by Subsection (c), a
watcher who presents himself or herself at the proper time with a
certificate of appointment and appropriate identification shall be
accepted for service unless the person is ineligible to serve or the
number of appointees to which the appointing authority is entitled
have already been accepted.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.