85R12831 GRM-F
By: Klick H.B. No. 2984
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:
(1) at any early voting polling place; or
(2) at the discretion of the county clerk, on election
day at:
(A) a countywide polling place or the polling
place located in the precinct of the new residence of the voter; or
(B) the clerk's office or the location that
served as [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 at a date early enough to prepare ballots or program
voting machines [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, 2017.