By: Elkins (Senate Sponsor - Bettencourt) H.B. No. 2778
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 2015;
May 12, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on State
Affairs; May 19, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 19, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the elections for which federal postcard applicant
voters may be sent ballots by e-mail.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 101.104, Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 101.104. ELECTIONS COVERED. Balloting [The e-mail
transmission of balloting] materials may be sent by e-mail under
this subchapter for any election in which the voter who registers
under this chapter is eligible to vote [is limited to:
[(1) an election in which an office of the federal
government appears on the ballot, including a primary election;
[(2) an election to fill a vacancy in the legislature
unless:
[(A) the election is ordered as an emergency
election under Section 41.0011; or
[(B) the election is held as an expedited
election under Section 203.013; or
[(3) an election held jointly with an election
described by Subdivision (1) or (2)].
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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