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        |  | AN ACT | 
      
        |  | relating to eligibility for appointment as a central counting | 
      
        |  | station manager. | 
      
        |  | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
        |  | SECTION 1.  Section 127.002(b), Election Code, is amended to | 
      
        |  | read as follows: | 
      
        |  | (b)  To be eligible for appointment, a person must: | 
      
        |  | (1)  have knowledge and experience in the conduct of | 
      
        |  | elections with the electronic voting system for which the counting | 
      
        |  | station is established; and | 
      
        |  | (2)  be a registered voter of the political subdivision | 
      
        |  | served by the authority establishing the counting station, except: | 
      
        |  | (A)  during the first year following the adoption | 
      
        |  | of the voting system; or | 
      
        |  | (B)  if the person is an employee of the political | 
      
        |  | subdivision that adopts or owns the voting system. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | 
      
        |  | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | 
      
        |  | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this | 
      
        |  | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | 
      
        |  | Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | 
      
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        |  | ______________________________ | ______________________________ | 
      
        |  | President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | 
      
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        |  | I certify that H.B. No. 2006 was passed by the House on May 8, | 
      
        |  | 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 147, Nays 0, 2 present, not | 
      
        |  | voting. | 
      
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        |  | ______________________________ | 
      
        |  | Chief Clerk of the House | 
      
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        |  | I certify that H.B. No. 2006 was passed by the Senate on May | 
      
        |  | 17, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0. | 
      
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        |  | ______________________________ | 
      
        |  | Secretary of the Senate | 
      
        |  | APPROVED:  _____________________ | 
      
        |  | Date | 
      
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        |  | _____________________ | 
      
        |  | Governor |