Olcott Bill Also Ties Early Voters To Their Commissioners Precinct

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89R8235 PRL-D

By: Olcott
H.B. No. 3361

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the elimination of electronic poll lists and the

countywide polling place program.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 32.0511(d), Election Code, is amended to

read as follows:

(d) Not more than two student election clerks may serve at a

polling place[ , except that not more than four student election

clerks may serve at any countywide polling place ].

SECTION 2. Section 42.0051(a), Election Code, is amended to

read as follows:

(a) This section applies only to a county with a population

of less than 1.2 million [ that does not participate in the

countywide polling place program described by Section 43.007 ].

SECTION 3. Chapter 63, Election Code, is amended by adding

Section 63.0016 to read as follows:

Sec. 63.0016. USE OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES TO ACCEPT VOTERS

PROHIBITED. The use of an electronic device to accept voters under

this chapter is prohibited.

SECTION 4. Subchapter C, Chapter 85, Election Code, is

amended by adding Section 85.0621 to read as follows:

Sec. 85.0621. VOTERS SERVED BY BRANCH POLLING PLACE. (a)

The commissioners court of a county shall assign a person in the

county entitled to vote an early voting ballot by personal

appearance to an early voting polling place in the commissioners

precinct.

(b) Any person entitled to vote an early voting ballot by

personal appearance may do so at the early voting polling place to

which the person is assigned under Subsection (a).

SECTION 5. The following provisions of the Election Code

are repealed:

(1) Section 31.014;

(2) Section 32.002(c-1);

(3) Section 43.004(c);

(4) Section 43.007;

(5) Section 63.002(d);

(6) Section 63.003(d);

(7) Section 63.004(e); and

(8) Section 85.062(f-1).

SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.