88R13883 MLH-F
By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 2331
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to centrally counted optical scan ballots.
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 shall [may not] purchase and [or] use a centrally
counted optical ballot scan system. A system under this section
must use [that uses] a data storage device [disc] on which
information, once written:
(1) [,] is not capable of being modified; or
(2) becomes unreadable if a person attempts to modify
it.
SECTION 2. Sections 127.1301(c), (d), and (e), Election
Code, are repealed.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.