Relating to certain election practices and procedures.

Contracts

Review Master Service Agreements (MSAs) with Texas counties immediately.

• Warranties: "Compliance with Law" clauses now require your systems to support offline voter acceptance and specific time-stamped logging. Failure to update constitutes a breach.
• Support Scope: Negotiate addendums for training county staff. The law changes the physical workflow at Central Counting Stations; clients will expect you to teach them how to generate the new mandatory reports.

Hiring/Training

• Vendor Staff: Engineering teams must be trained on the new SOS data schema requirements once released.
• Client Training: You must train Central Counting Station Judges on the "Pre-Accumulation" intake step. They are now legally required to generate a report for *each* data storage device before reading it into the central accumulator.

Reporting & Record-Keeping

The law creates four mandatory data outputs that your systems must generate automatically:

• 1. E-Pollbook Log: A specific export compatible with the statewide voter registration list, containing unique time-stamps for every transaction.
• 2. Scanner Count Report: A "total ballots scanned" report generated *immediately* upon closing polls (stripped of candidate results).
• 3. Storage Device Report: A pre-accumulation report for every individual memory card/stick at the central count.
• 4. Reconciliation Data: Data necessary for the General Custodian to produce the public "Votes vs. Voters" report within 30 days.

Fees & Costs

• Development Costs: High internal costs for R&D to update firmware and software logic.
• Hardware Upgrades: Potential capital expenditure if current e-pollbook hardware lacks sufficient memory to cache county databases locally for mandated "offline" functionality.