By: Allen (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 3252
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 23, 2019;
April 24, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on State
Affairs; May 19, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 19, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the posting of certain notices in a primary election.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 172.1111(a) and (c), Election Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(a) Before the opening of the polls during the early voting
period and on election day, the presiding judge shall post at each
outside door through which a voter may enter the building in which
the polling place is located a written notice in bold print of the
date, hour, and place for each precinct, county, senatorial, or
state convention that a voter in the precinct may be eligible to
attend during the election year.
(c) The notice must remain posted continuously through the
early voting period and on election day.
SECTION 2. Section 172.1112(a), Election Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) The county clerk shall post a notice of the election and
a notice of consolidated precincts, if applicable, in the manner
prescribed by Section 4.003(b) for general and special elections.
The notice of the election shall be posted on the county clerk's
[party's] Internet website, if the county clerk [party] maintains a
website. If the county clerk [party] does not maintain a website,
the notice shall be posted on the bulletin board used for posting
notice of meetings of the commissioners court.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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