By: Kolkhorst (Senate Sponsor - Campbell) H.B. No. 2110
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 9, 2013;
May 9, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on State
Affairs; May 17, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 17, 2013, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requirements for certain election officers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 32.054(a), Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) A person is ineligible to serve as an election judge or
clerk in an election if the person is employed by or related within
the second degree by consanguinity or affinity, as determined under
Chapter 573, Government Code, to an opposed candidate for a public
office or a [the] party office in any precinct in which the office
appears on the ballot [of county chair in the election]. For
purposes of this subsection, a candidate whose name appears on the
ballot is not considered to be opposed by a write-in candidate other
than a declared write-in candidate under Chapter 146.
SECTION 2. The heading to Section 62.003, Election Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 62.003. [OATH OF] ELECTION OFFICERS: OATH AND
IDENTIFICATION.
SECTION 3. Section 62.003, Election Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) Following administration of the oath, each election
officer shall be issued a form of identification, prescribed by the
secretary of state, to be displayed by the officer during the
officer's hours of service at the polling place.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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