By: Hughes S.B. No. 1661
(In the Senate - Filed March 6, 2023; March 16, 2023, read
first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
April 6, 2023, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 6, 2023,
sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1661 By: Hughes
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.
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