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Texas House Bill HB1300

Texas 2021 - 87th Regular

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1-By: Guillen, Ramos, Muñoz, Jr., Raymond H.B. No. 1300
1+87R19722 SGM-D
2+ By: Guillen H.B. No. 1300
3+ Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1300:
4+ By: Bucy C.S.H.B. No. 1300
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47 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
58 AN ACT
69 relating to the reading and marking of a ballot by a person
710 occupying a voting station or by the person's child.
811 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
9- SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 31, Election Code, is
10- amended by adding Section 31.126 to read as follows:
11- Sec. 31.126. EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS ON CHILD PARTICIPATION
12- IN VOTING. (a) The secretary of state shall develop voter
13- education materials for parents on the procedures under Section
14- 64.002(b) that allow a child under 14 years of age to read and mark
15- the ballot while accompanying the child's parent to a voting
16- station. The secretary shall make the voter education materials
17- available on the secretary's Internet website.
18- (b) The county officer responsible for administering
19- elections in a county to which Section 31.125 applies shall make the
20- voter education materials developed by the secretary of state under
21- Subsection (a) available on the county's Internet website.
22- SECTION 2. Section 64.002(b), Election Code, is amended to
12+ SECTION 1. Section 64.002(b), Election Code, is amended to
2313 read as follows:
2414 (b) A child under 18 years of age may accompany the child's
2515 parent to a voting station, and if the child is under 14 years of
2616 age, may read or mark the ballot at the direction of the parent.
2717 Reading or marking a ballot under this subsection does not
2818 constitute assisting a voter for purposes of Subchapter B.
29- SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
19+ SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.