2025 Texas sessionsRegular and both called sessions have ended. This index covers House and Senate bills, not resolutions. Statuses come from official reports.

2025 · Regular session · House bill

HB3575

HB3575 directs candidates for elected appraisal-district board positions to file their campaign treasurer appointments with the county clerk or, in a county with that position, the county elections administrator.

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Official caption: Relating to the filing of a campaign treasurer appointment and an application for a place on the ballot by a candidate for the board of directors of an appraisal district.

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Official report lists House author(s): Noble, Metcalf, Isaac. This does not identify sponsors or amendment drafters.

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Bill highlights

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HB3575 directs candidates for elected appraisal-district board positions to file their campaign treasurer appointments with the county clerk or, in a county with that position, the county elections administrator.
The elections-administrator wording in Election Code 252.005(2) also applies to that paragraph's existing county, precinct and other covered district-office candidates.
The law took effect June 20, 2025, after receiving the votes needed for immediate effectiveness.

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What does it do?

HB3575 directs candidates for elected appraisal-district board positions to file their campaign treasurer appointments with the county clerk or, in a county with that position, the county elections administrator. It also moves their ballot applications from the county judge to that same filing office. The elected-board provision applies to appraisal districts established in counties with at least 75,000 people. Final law; district scope.

The elections-administrator wording in Election Code 252.005(2) also applies to that paragraph’s existing county, precinct and other covered district-office candidates. The bill does not move statewide or other candidates assigned to the Texas Ethics Commission into the county filing system. It leaves the appraisal-district filing fee or qualifying petition requirement in place; it does not create a new fee or alter property appraisals or tax rates.

The law took effect June 20, 2025, after receiving the votes needed for immediate effectiveness. Its separate transition clauses apply the new rules only to treasurer appointments and ballot applications required to be filed on or after that date. Earlier required filings remain governed by the former law. Official history; ballot procedures.

What changed along the way?

The introduced bill directed the affected filings to the county clerk and proposed September 1 effectiveness. The House committee substitute added the county elections administrator where that office exists, for both campaign treasurer appointments and ballot applications, and added the possibility of immediate effectiveness. These changes survived into the law.

There were no individually indexed floor amendments. The House substitute and House-passed text match, and the Senate printing and enrolled law retain the same operative provisions. The House passed the bill 141–0 and the Senate 31–0. Amendment index; text versions.

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Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?

Candidates can direct the two kinds of paperwork to a consistent county filing office, while county clerks or elections administrators take on the assigned receiving role. County judges no longer receive the newly covered ballot applications. Candidates still need to meet the separate filing and campaign-finance requirements; this law does not excuse a late filing.

All three available fiscal notes anticipate no significant state or local-government fiscal impact and assume costs can be absorbed with existing resources. They do not quantify individual candidates’ time savings. Latest fiscal note.

Review boundary: This is a filing-office change, not advice on a particular candidate’s eligibility, filing deadline or campaign-finance compliance.

Official sources

Catalog report retrieved 2026-10-25. Check the official record for corrections or later changes.