| 2 | | - | (In the Senate - Filed November 12, 2024; February 3, 2025, |
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| 3 | | - | read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; |
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| 4 | | - | March 5, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee |
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| 5 | | - | Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 1; March 5, 2025, |
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| 6 | | - | sent to printer.) |
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| 7 | | - | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 8 | | - | COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 62 By: Hughes |
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| 16 | | - | SECTION 1. Section 64.002(b), Election Code, is amended to |
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| 12 | + | SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 31, Election Code, is |
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| 13 | + | amended by adding Section 31.131 to read as follows: |
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| 14 | + | Sec. 31.131. EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS ON CHILD PARTICIPATION |
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| 15 | + | IN VOTING. (a) The secretary of state shall develop voter |
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| 16 | + | education materials for parents on the procedures under Section |
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| 17 | + | 64.002(b) that allow a child under 14 years of age to read and mark |
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| 18 | + | the ballot while accompanying the child's parent to a voting |
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| 19 | + | station. The secretary shall make the voter education materials |
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| 20 | + | available on the secretary's Internet website. |
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| 21 | + | (b) The county officer responsible for administering |
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| 22 | + | elections in a county to which Section 31.125 applies shall make the |
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| 23 | + | voter education materials developed by the secretary of state under |
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| 24 | + | Subsection (a) available on the county's Internet website. |
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| 25 | + | SECTION 2. Section 64.002(b), Election Code, is amended to |
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