SB567 - Relating to the use of a building owned or controlled by a public school as a polling place.

  89R985 TSS-D     By: King S.B. No. 567       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to the use of a building owned or controlled by a public   school as a polling place.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Sections 43.031(c) and (e), Election Code, are   amended to read as follows:          (c)  The building selected for a polling place shall be a   public building if practicable. Except as provided by Subsection   (e), the [ The ] entity that owns or controls a public building shall   make the building available for use as a polling place in any   election that covers territory in which the building is located. If   more than one authority requests the use of the building for the   same day and simultaneous use is impracticable, the entity that   owns or controls the building shall determine which authority may   use the building.          (e)  A polling place may not be located :                 (1)     at a building owned or controlled by a school   district or an open-enrollment charter school unless:                       (A)     the building is not located on or adjacent to   a school campus; or                       (B)     the building is located in a county with a   population of 50,000 or less and the election authority cannot   identify a reasonable alternative polling place; or                 (2)   at the residence of a person who is:                       (A)  [ (1) ]  a candidate for an elective office,   including an office of a political party; or                       (B)  [ (2) ]  related within the third degree by   consanguinity or the second degree by affinity, as determined under   Chapter 573, Government Code, to a candidate described by Paragraph   (A) [ Subdivision (1) ].          SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.