By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 825
(In the Senate - Filed February 10, 2023; March 1, 2023,
read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
March 21, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11,
Nays 0; March 21, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the deadline for submitting certain recount petitions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 212.028, Election Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
follows:
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a petition for an
initial recount must be submitted by 5 p.m. of the third business
[second] day after the date the canvassing authority to whose
presiding officer the petition must be submitted completes its
canvass of the original election returns.
(c) If the deadline for submitting a petition for an initial
recount falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal state holiday, the
deadline is extended to 10 a.m. of the next regular business day.
SECTION 2. Section 212.083, Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 212.083. DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING PETITION. The
deadline for submitting a recount petition under this subchapter is
2 p.m. of the second [first] day after the date of the local
canvass.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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