By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 62
(In the Senate - Filed November 12, 2024; February 3, 2025,
read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
March 5, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 1; March 5, 2025,
sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 62 By: Hughes
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the reading and marking of a ballot by a person
occupying a voting station or by the person's child.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 64.002(b), Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(b) A child under 18 years of age may accompany the child's
parent to a voting station, and, if the child is under 14 years of
age, the child may read or mark the ballot at the direction of the
parent. Reading or marking a ballot under this subsection does not
constitute assisting a voter for purposes of Subchapter B.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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