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| 1 | 1 | 87R9064 SGM-D | |
| 2 | 2 | By: Cole H.B. No. 3147 | |
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| 4 | 4 | ||
| 5 | 5 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 6 | 6 | AN ACT | |
| 7 | 7 | relating to the deadline for an early voting ballot board to | |
| 8 | 8 | determine whether to accept voters' ballots. | |
| 9 | 9 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 10 | 10 | SECTION 1. Section 65.051(a), Election Code, is amended to | |
| 11 | 11 | read as follows: | |
| 12 | 12 | (a) The early voting ballot board shall verify and count | |
| 13 | 13 | provisional ballots as provided by this subchapter not later than | |
| 14 | 14 | the 10th [ninth] day after the date of an election. | |
| 15 | 15 | SECTION 2. Section 87.041, Election Code, is amended by | |
| 16 | 16 | adding Subsection (h) to read as follows: | |
| 17 | 17 | (h) The early voting ballot board shall determine whether to | |
| 18 | 18 | accept mail ballots as provided by this section not later than the | |
| 19 | 19 | 10th day after the date of an election. | |
| 20 | 20 | SECTION 3. Section 87.0431(a), Election Code, is amended to | |
| 21 | 21 | read as follows: | |
| 22 | 22 | (a) Not later than the 10th day after the local canvass | |
| 23 | 23 | [election day], the presiding judge of the early voting ballot | |
| 24 | 24 | board shall deliver written notice of the reason for the rejection | |
| 25 | 25 | of a ballot to the voter at the residence address on the ballot | |
| 26 | 26 | application. If the ballot was transmitted to the voter by e-mail | |
| 27 | 27 | under Subchapter C, Chapter 101, the presiding judge shall also | |
| 28 | 28 | provide the notice to the e-mail address to which the ballot was | |
| 29 | 29 | sent. | |
| 30 | 30 | SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |