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      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.) Click here to see the committee vote     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.     * * * * *