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| 1 | 1 | By: Hinojosa, et al. S.B. No. 50 | |
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| 4 | 4 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 5 | 5 | AN ACT | |
| 6 | 6 | relating to an exception to the application of the offense of | |
| 7 | 7 | illegal voting. | |
| 8 | 8 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 9 | 9 | SECTION 1. Section 64.012, Election Code, is amended by | |
| 10 | 10 | adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: | |
| 11 | 11 | (c) It is an exception to the application of Subsection | |
| 12 | 12 | (a)(1) that the person: | |
| 13 | 13 | (1) voted or attempted to vote a provisional ballot in | |
| 14 | 14 | accordance with Section 63.011; and | |
| 15 | 15 | (2) did not know: | |
| 16 | 16 | (A) of the particular circumstances that made the | |
| 17 | 17 | person not eligible to vote in the election; or | |
| 18 | 18 | (B) that those circumstances made the person not | |
| 19 | 19 | eligible to vote in the election. | |
| 20 | 20 | SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | |
| 21 | 21 | to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. | |
| 22 | 22 | An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is | |
| 23 | 23 | governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, | |
| 24 | 24 | and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For | |
| 25 | 25 | purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the | |
| 26 | 26 | effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred | |
| 27 | 27 | before that date. | |
| 28 | 28 | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |