By: Miller of Fort Bend (Senate Sponsor - Huffman) H.B. No. 2475
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 29, 2013;
April 30, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on State
Affairs; May 7, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 7, 2013, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the oath taken by a person who assists a voter.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 64.034, Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 64.034. OATH. A person selected to provide assistance
to a voter must take the following oath, administered by an election
officer at the polling place, before providing assistance:
"I swear (or affirm) that I will not suggest, by word,
sign, or gesture, how the voter should vote; I will confine my
assistance to answering the voter's questions, to stating
propositions on the ballot, and to naming candidates and, if
listed, their political parties; [and] I will prepare the voter's
ballot as the voter directs; and I am not the voter's employer,
an agent of the voter's employer, or an officer or agent of a
labor union to which the voter belongs."
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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