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| 1 | 1 | By: Toth H.B. No. 4733 | |
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| 4 | 4 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 5 | 5 | AN ACT | |
| 6 | 6 | relating to the systems used in a central counting station. | |
| 7 | 7 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 8 | 8 | SECTION 1. Section 127.1301(b), Election Code, is amended | |
| 9 | 9 | to read as follows: | |
| 10 | 10 | (b) An authority operating a central counting station under | |
| 11 | 11 | this chapter may not purchase or use a [centrally counted optical] | |
| 12 | 12 | ballot scanner unless the ballot scanner can only use [scan system | |
| 13 | 13 | thatuses] a data storage device [disc] on which information, once | |
| 14 | 14 | written, is incapable [capable] of being modified without rendering | |
| 15 | 15 | the device unreadable. | |
| 16 | 16 | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |