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