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  89R13229 LRM-F     By: Guillen, Plesa H.B. No. 429     Substitute the following for H.B. No. 429:     By:  Shaheen C.S.H.B. No. 429       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. Subchapter E, Chapter 31, Election Code, is   amended by adding Section 31.131 to read as follows:           Sec.   31.131.     EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS ON CHILD PARTICIPATION   IN VOTING. (a)   The secretary of state shall develop voter   education materials for parents on the procedures under Section   64.002(b) that allow a child under 16 years of age to read and mark   the ballot while accompanying the child's parent to a voting   station.   The secretary shall make the voter education materials   available on the secretary's Internet website.           (b)     The county officer responsible for administering   elections in a county to which Section 31.125 applies shall make the   voter education materials developed by the secretary of state under   Subsection (a) available on the county's Internet website.          SECTION 2.  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 16 years of   age, 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 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.