Amend SB 100 on third reading by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Section 86.014(a), Election Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a)  A copy of an application for a ballot to be voted by mail is not available for public inspection, except to the voter seeking to verify that the information pertaining to the voter is accurate, until the first business day after [may be obtained from the early voting clerk]:

(1)  the date the ballot corresponding to the application is received by the authority conducting the election, if the ballot is returned to the authority [72 hours after the time a ballot is mailed to the voter]; or

(2)  [48 hours after the time a ballot is mailed to the voter if the mailing occurs on the fourth day before] election day.