| 1 | 1 | | 87R4819 ADM-F |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Israel H.B. No. 1412 |
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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to the elements of the offense of illegal voting. |
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| 8 | 8 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 9 | 9 | | SECTION 1. Section 64.012(a), Election Code, is amended to |
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| 10 | 10 | | read as follows: |
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| 11 | 11 | | (a) A person commits an offense if the person: |
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| 12 | 12 | | (1) votes or attempts to vote in an election if [in |
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| 13 | 13 | | which] the person knows: |
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| 14 | 14 | | (A) of particular circumstances that make the |
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| 15 | 15 | | person [is] not eligible to vote in the election; and |
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| 16 | 16 | | (B) that those circumstances make the person not |
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| 17 | 17 | | eligible to vote in the election; |
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| 18 | 18 | | (2) knowingly votes or attempts to vote more than once |
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| 19 | 19 | | in an election; |
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| 20 | 20 | | (3) knowingly votes or attempts to vote a ballot |
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| 21 | 21 | | belonging to another person, or by impersonating another person; or |
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| 22 | 22 | | (4) knowingly marks or attempts to mark any portion of |
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| 23 | 23 | | another person's ballot without the consent of that person, or |
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| 24 | 24 | | without specific direction from that person how to mark the ballot. |
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| 25 | 25 | | SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only |
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| 26 | 26 | | to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. |
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| 27 | 27 | | An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is |
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| 28 | 28 | | governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, |
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| 29 | 29 | | and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For |
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| 30 | 30 | | purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the |
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| 31 | 31 | | effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred |
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| 32 | 32 | | before that date. |
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| 33 | 33 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |
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