84R4355 GRM-F
By: Reynolds H.B. No. 3832
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to voting a limited ballot.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 112.002(a) and (d), Election Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(a) After changing residence to another county, a person is
eligible to vote a limited ballot on election day, by personal
appearance during the early voting period, or by mail if:
(1) the person would have been eligible to vote in the
county of former residence on election day if still residing in that
county;
(2) the person is registered to vote in the county of
former residence at the time the person:
(A) offers to vote in the county of new
residence; or
(B) submitted a voter registration application
in the county of new residence; and
(3) a voter registration for the person in the county
of new residence is not effective on or before election day.
(d) A statement executed under Subsection (c) shall be
submitted:
(1) to an election officer at the [main early voting]
polling place[, if the person is voting by personal appearance]; or
(2) with the person's application for a ballot to be
voted by mail, if the person is voting by mail.
SECTION 2. Section 112.004, Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 112.004. OFFICES AND MEASURES ON WHICH VOTER ENTITLED
TO VOTE. A person voting a limited ballot is entitled to vote only
on[:
[(1)] each office and proposition stating a measure to
be voted on statewide[; and
[(2) each office and proposition stating a measure to
be voted on in a territorial unit of which the person was a resident
both before changing county of residence and after the change].
SECTION 3. Section 112.006, Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 112.006. PLACE FOR VOTING BY PERSONAL APPEARANCE. A
person may vote a limited ballot by personal appearance at any early
voting polling place or on election day at a countywide polling
place or the polling place located in the precinct of new residence
[only at the main early voting polling place].
SECTION 4. Section 112.009, Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 112.009. PREPARING VOTING MACHINE. Before permitting
a person to vote a limited ballot on a voting machine, the county
[early voting] clerk shall adjust the machine so that votes may be
cast only on each office and proposition stating a measure to be
voted on statewide [the offices and propositions stating measures
on which the voter is entitled to vote].
SECTION 5. Section 112.010(a), Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) If [early] voting [by personal appearance] is conducted
by voting machine, the county [early voting] clerk may conduct [the
personal appearance] voting of limited ballots by using official
ballots for early voting by mail.
SECTION 6. Section 112.011, Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 112.011. INFORMATION FOR LIMITED BALLOT [ON DISTRICT
COMPOSITION]. [(a)] In each even-numbered year, the secretary of
state shall prepare information on each office and proposition
stating a measure to be voted on statewide [the territorial
composition of each district for which an officer of the state
government is regularly elected at the general election for state
and county officers].
[(b) The information must include the data necessary to
enable an early voting clerk to determine the district offices on
which a voter under this chapter is eligible to vote.
[(c)] The secretary shall deliver the information to each
county clerk before the 20th day before general primary election
day.
SECTION 7. Section 112.012, Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 112.012. NOTIFICATION TO VOTER REGISTRAR. Not later
than the 30th day after receipt of an application for a limited
ballot, the county [early voting] clerk shall notify the voter
registrar for the voter's former county of residence that the voter
has applied for a limited ballot.
SECTION 8. Section 112.008, Election Code, is repealed.
SECTION 9. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.