By: Reynolds (Senate Sponsor - Burton) H.B. No. 2559
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 2017;
May 10, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on State
Affairs; May 18, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 18, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to public inspection of mail ballot applications.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 86.014(a), Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) A copy of an application for a ballot to be voted by mail
is not available for public inspection, except to the voter seeking
to verify that the information pertaining to the voter is accurate,
until the first business day after the election day of the earliest
[latest] occurring election for which the application is submitted.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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