87R9077 ADM-D
By: Hinojosa, West S.B. No. 1498
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to an exception to the application of the offense of
illegal voting.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 64.012, Election Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) It is an exception to the application of Subsection
(a)(1) that the person:
(1) voted or attempted to vote a provisional ballot in
accordance with Section 63.011; and
(2) did not know:
(A) of the particular circumstances that made the
person not eligible to vote in the election; or
(B) that those circumstances made the person not
eligible to vote in the election.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For
purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the
effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred
before that date.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.