| 1 | 1 | | By: Miller of Fort Bend (Senate Sponsor - Huffman) H.B. No. 2475 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Received from the House April 29, 2013; |
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| 3 | 3 | | April 30, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on State |
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| 4 | 4 | | Affairs; May 7, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: |
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| 5 | 5 | | Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 7, 2013, sent to printer.) |
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| 7 | 7 | | |
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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 the oath taken by a person who assists a voter. |
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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 64.034, Election Code, is amended to |
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| 13 | 13 | | read as follows: |
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| 14 | 14 | | Sec. 64.034. OATH. A person selected to provide assistance |
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| 15 | 15 | | to a voter must take the following oath, administered by an election |
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| 16 | 16 | | officer at the polling place, before providing assistance: |
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| 17 | 17 | | "I swear (or affirm) that I will not suggest, by word, |
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| 18 | 18 | | sign, or gesture, how the voter should vote; I will confine my |
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| 19 | 19 | | assistance to answering the voter's questions, to stating |
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| 20 | 20 | | propositions on the ballot, and to naming candidates and, if |
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| 21 | 21 | | listed, their political parties; [and] I will prepare the voter's |
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| 22 | 22 | | ballot as the voter directs; and I am not the voter's employer, |
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| 23 | 23 | | an agent of the voter's employer, or an officer or agent of a |
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| 24 | 24 | | labor union to which the voter belongs." |
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| 25 | 25 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |
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| 26 | 26 | | * * * * * |
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