89R985 TSS-D
By: King S.B. No. 567
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the use of a building owned or controlled by a public
school as a polling place.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 43.031(c) and (e), Election Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(c) The building selected for a polling place shall be a
public building if practicable. Except as provided by Subsection
(e), the [The] entity that owns or controls a public building shall
make the building available for use as a polling place in any
election that covers territory in which the building is located. If
more than one authority requests the use of the building for the
same day and simultaneous use is impracticable, the entity that
owns or controls the building shall determine which authority may
use the building.
(e) A polling place may not be located:
(1) at a building owned or controlled by a school
district or an open-enrollment charter school unless:
(A) the building is not located on or adjacent to
a school campus; or
(B) the building is located in a county with a
population of 50,000 or less and the election authority cannot
identify a reasonable alternative polling place; or
(2) at the residence of a person who is:
(A) [(1)] a candidate for an elective office,
including an office of a political party; or
(B) [(2)] related within the third degree by
consanguinity or the second degree by affinity, as determined under
Chapter 573, Government Code, to a candidate described by Paragraph
(A) [Subdivision (1)].
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.