By: Blanco (Senate Sponsor - RodrÃguez) H.B. No. 2721
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 18, 2015;
May 18, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on State
Affairs; May 22, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 22, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to public notice of the time for voting during an early
voting period.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 85.007, Election Code, is amended by
adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows:
(d) Any notice required under this section must also be
posted:
(1) on the Internet website of the authority ordering
the election, if the authority maintains a website; and
(2) for a primary election or general election, by the
secretary of state on the secretary's Internet website.
(e) The authority ordering an election shall forward its
election notice to the secretary of state in a manner that affords
the secretary of state sufficient time to comply with Subsection
(d)(2).
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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