84R4355 GRM-F
	By: Reynolds	H.B. No. 3832

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to voting a limited ballot.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Sections 112.002(a) and (d), Election Code, are
	amended to read as follows:
	(a)  After changing residence to another county, a person is
	eligible to vote a limited ballot on election day, by personal
	appearance during the early voting period, or by mail if:
	(1)  the person would have been eligible to vote in the
	county of former residence on election day if still residing in that
	county;
	(2)  the person is registered to vote in the county of
	former residence at the time the person:
	(A)  offers to vote in the county of new
	residence; or
	(B)  submitted a voter registration application
	in the county of new residence; and
	(3)  a voter registration for the person in the county
	of new residence is not effective on or before election day.
	(d)  A statement executed under Subsection (c) shall be
	submitted:
	(1)  to an election officer at the [main early voting]
	polling place[, if the person is voting by personal appearance]; or
	(2)  with the person's application for a ballot to be
	voted by mail, if the person is voting by mail.
	SECTION 2.  Section 112.004, Election Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	Sec. 112.004.  OFFICES AND MEASURES ON WHICH VOTER ENTITLED
	TO VOTE. A person voting a limited ballot is entitled to vote only
	on[:
	[(1)]  each office and proposition stating a measure to
	be voted on statewide[; and
	[(2)     each office and proposition stating a measure to
	be voted on in a territorial unit of which the person was a resident
	both before changing county of residence and after the change].
	SECTION 3.  Section 112.006, Election Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	Sec. 112.006.  PLACE FOR VOTING BY PERSONAL APPEARANCE. A
	person may vote a limited ballot by personal appearance at any early
	voting polling place or on election day at a countywide polling
	place or the polling place located in the precinct of new residence
	[only at the main early voting polling place].
	SECTION 4.  Section 112.009, Election Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	Sec. 112.009.  PREPARING VOTING MACHINE. Before permitting
	a person to vote a limited ballot on a voting machine, the county
	[early voting] clerk shall adjust the machine so that votes may be
	cast only on each office and proposition stating a measure to be
	voted on statewide [the offices and propositions stating measures
	on which the voter is entitled to vote].
	SECTION 5.  Section 112.010(a), Election Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(a)  If [early] voting [by personal appearance] is conducted
	by voting machine, the county [early voting] clerk may conduct [the
	personal appearance] voting of limited ballots by using official
	ballots for early voting by mail.
	SECTION 6.  Section 112.011, Election Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	Sec. 112.011.  INFORMATION FOR LIMITED BALLOT [ON DISTRICT
	COMPOSITION]. [(a)] In each even-numbered year, the secretary of
	state shall prepare information on each office and proposition
	stating a measure to be voted on statewide [the territorial
	composition of each district for which an officer of the state
	government is regularly elected at the general election for state
	and county officers].
	[(b)     The information must include the data necessary to
	enable an early voting clerk to determine the district offices on
	which a voter under this chapter is eligible to vote.
	[(c)]  The secretary shall deliver the information to each
	county clerk before the 20th day before general primary election
	day.
	SECTION 7.  Section 112.012, Election Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	Sec. 112.012.  NOTIFICATION TO VOTER REGISTRAR. Not later
	than the 30th day after receipt of an application for a limited
	ballot, the county [early voting] clerk shall notify the voter
	registrar for the voter's former county of residence that the voter
	has applied for a limited ballot.
	SECTION 8.  Section 112.008, Election Code, is repealed.
	SECTION 9.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.