By: Hughes S.B. No. 1661
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the systems 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 not purchase or use a [centrally counted optical]
ballot scanner unless the ballot scanner can only use [scan system
that uses] a data storage device [disc] on which information, once
written, is incapable [capable] of being modified without rendering
the device unreadable.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.