| 1 | 1 | | By: Kolkhorst (Senate Sponsor - Campbell) H.B. No. 2110 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Received from the House May 9, 2013; |
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| 3 | 3 | | May 9, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on State |
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| 4 | 4 | | Affairs; May 17, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: |
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| 5 | 5 | | Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 17, 2013, sent to printer.) |
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| 8 | 8 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 9 | 9 | | AN ACT |
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| 10 | 10 | | relating to requirements for certain election officers. |
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| 11 | 11 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 12 | 12 | | SECTION 1. Section 32.054(a), Election Code, is amended to |
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| 13 | 13 | | read as follows: |
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| 14 | 14 | | (a) A person is ineligible to serve as an election judge or |
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| 15 | 15 | | clerk in an election if the person is employed by or related within |
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| 16 | 16 | | the second degree by consanguinity or affinity, as determined under |
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| 17 | 17 | | Chapter 573, Government Code, to an opposed candidate for a public |
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| 18 | 18 | | office or a [the] party office in any precinct in which the office |
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| 19 | 19 | | appears on the ballot [of county chair in the election]. For |
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| 20 | 20 | | purposes of this subsection, a candidate whose name appears on the |
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| 21 | 21 | | ballot is not considered to be opposed by a write-in candidate other |
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| 22 | 22 | | than a declared write-in candidate under Chapter 146. |
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| 23 | 23 | | SECTION 2. The heading to Section 62.003, Election Code, is |
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| 24 | 24 | | amended to read as follows: |
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| 25 | 25 | | Sec. 62.003. [OATH OF] ELECTION OFFICERS: OATH AND |
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| 26 | 26 | | IDENTIFICATION. |
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| 27 | 27 | | SECTION 3. Section 62.003, Election Code, is amended by |
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| 28 | 28 | | adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: |
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| 29 | 29 | | (c) Following administration of the oath, each election |
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| 30 | 30 | | officer shall be issued a form of identification, prescribed by the |
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| 31 | 31 | | secretary of state, to be displayed by the officer during the |
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| 32 | 32 | | officer's hours of service at the polling place. |
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| 33 | 33 | | SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |
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| 34 | 34 | | * * * * * |
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