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here’S what was in it


The bill set limits on the hours of early voting, which comes after Harris County, home to Houston, offered a handful of 24-hour early voting days before the November election. The bill would allow counties to set their hours, but early voting could only take place between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m.



The bill had some expansions of early voting hours. Weekday early voting would have lasted nine hours at a county's main early voting site, rather than just the county clerk's business hours

Counties with at least 30,000 people would have to offer at least 12 voting hours on each weekday during the final week of early voting at the main early voting site, at least 12 hours on the last Saturday of early voting and at least six hours on the last Sunday. Currently, those requirements only apply to counties with at least 100,000 people. The bill also upped the mandatory Sunday hours from five to six.

Increased hours? How racist!