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| 1 | - | By: Reynolds (Senate Sponsor - Burton) H.B. No. 2559 | |
| 2 | - | (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 2017; | |
| 3 | - | May 10, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on State | |
| 4 | - | Affairs; May 18, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: | |
| 5 | - | Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 18, 2017, sent to printer.) | |
| 6 | - | Click here to see the committee vote | |
| 1 | + | H.B. No. 2559 | |
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| 9 | - | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 10 | 4 | AN ACT | |
| 11 | 5 | relating to public inspection of mail ballot applications. | |
| 12 | 6 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 13 | 7 | SECTION 1. Section 86.014(a), Election Code, is amended to | |
| 14 | 8 | read as follows: | |
| 15 | 9 | (a) A copy of an application for a ballot to be voted by mail | |
| 16 | 10 | is not available for public inspection, except to the voter seeking | |
| 17 | 11 | to verify that the information pertaining to the voter is accurate, | |
| 18 | 12 | until the first business day after the election day of the earliest | |
| 19 | 13 | [latest] occurring election for which the application is submitted. | |
| 20 | 14 | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | |
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| 15 | + | ______________________________ ______________________________ | |
| 16 | + | President of the Senate Speaker of the House | |
| 17 | + | I certify that H.B. No. 2559 was passed by the House on May 9, | |
| 18 | + | 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 2, 2 present, not | |
| 19 | + | voting. | |
| 20 | + | ______________________________ | |
| 21 | + | Chief Clerk of the House | |
| 22 | + | I certify that H.B. No. 2559 was passed by the Senate on May | |
| 23 | + | 22, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. | |
| 24 | + | ______________________________ | |
| 25 | + | Secretary of the Senate | |
| 26 | + | APPROVED: _____________________ | |
| 27 | + | Date | |
| 28 | + | _____________________ | |
| 29 | + | Governor |