By: Hughes S.B. No. 1661
(Smith, et al.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a ballot scan system used in a central counting station.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 127.1301(b), Election Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) An authority operating a central counting station under
this chapter may only [not] purchase or use a [centrally counted
optical] ballot scan system if the system is only capable of using
[that uses] a data transfer media device that:
(1) [storage disc on which information,] once a cast
vote record is written, is incapable [capable] of being modified
without automatic:
(A) detection of the modification; and
(B) rejection of the cast vote record; and
(2) does not allow for the process under Subdivision
(1) to be overridden or circumvented.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.