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Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB640 defines a “regular business day,” for the election-office-hours rule, as a day when the main business office of the county, city or other polit…
Official caption: Relating to the office hours of an election authority during an election period.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB766 requires a candidate applying for a place on the ballot for political-party precinct chair to provide an email address, a telephone number, or …
Official caption: Relating to the ballot application requirements for the election of a precinct chair.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB2259 requires the secretary of state to prescribe printed instructions for the official early-voting ballot application.
Official caption: Relating to the instructions for an application form for an early voting ballot.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB2512 changes how some land can leave a city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction, or ETJ—an unincorporated area outside the city limits where state law …
Official caption: Relating to the release of certain areas from a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction by petition or election.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB2694 changes when voters elect the three commissioners of Brazoria Drainage District No. 4 and how board vacancies are filled.
Official caption: Relating to the election and resignation of and filling of vacancies on the board of commissioners of the Brazoria Drainage District No. 4.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB2885 lets narrowly defined local governments initiate certain alcohol-sales elections without first relying on a voter petition.
Official caption: Relating to allowing the governing bodies of certain political subdivisions to call for a local option election relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB5693 moves Jefferson County Drainage District No. 7 commissioner elections to the uniform November election date in odd-numbered years.
Official caption: Relating to the election of the commissioners of the Jefferson County Drainage District No. 7.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB447 gives a narrowly defined border city the option to move its regular officer elections to November—and requires it to stay there if it uses that…
Official caption: Relating to authorizing certain municipalities to change the date on which their general election for officers is held.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB509 requires courts to notify the Texas attorney general before hearings seeking a temporary restraining order under the Election Code.
Official caption: Relating to requiring notice to the attorney general in an action under the Election Code seeking a temporary restraining order.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB510 broadens when the Secretary of State may withhold specified election funds from a voter registrar who fails to perform required duties on time.
Official caption: Relating to the failure of a voter registrar to comply with voter registration laws.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB827 expands and reorganizes hand-count checks of electronically counted ballots, adds online publication of results, and coordinates statewide risk…
Official caption: Relating to the audit of an election using an electronic voting system.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB901 disqualifies a candidate who files for a general-primary ballot place or convention nomination with more than one political party in the same v…
Official caption: Relating to the declaration of a candidate's ineligibility on the basis of filing an application for a place on the general primary election ballot or for nomination by convention with more than one political party.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB914 gives two specifically defined groups of local governments a temporary option to move their general officer elections to the November uniform e…
Official caption: Relating to authorizing certain cities and counties to change the date on which their general election for officers is held.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB985 broadens when county election precincts may be combined, with different limits for redistricting and polling-place problems.
Official caption: Relating to the combination of certain election precincts.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1470 requires the Department of Public Safety to share data about Texas driver’s-license or identification-card holders who apply for a license or …
Official caption: Relating to requiring the Department of Public Safety to share data for the purpose of maintaining the statewide voter registration list.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1540 gives election officials and specified election workers access to an existing process for keeping sensitive personal information out of public…
Official caption: Relating to maintaining the confidentiality of the personal information of election officials and their employees.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1862 creates a monthly state-coordinated notification process when a Texas voter-registration application shows a previous residence outside Texas.
Official caption: Relating to interstate notification by the voter registrar of certain applicants for voter registration.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2166 reorganizes voting-equipment testing, moves the main public logic-and-accuracy test earlier, adds electronic-pollbook testing, and spells out …
Official caption: Relating to testing of voting tabulation equipment.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2216 requires locked-room storage for voting-system equipment and adds inventory and security-seal procedures to the rules for systems using direct…
Official caption: Relating to security of election system equipment.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2217 adds election-record reports and reconciliation duties and changes how already-registered voters update an address after moving within the sam…
Official caption: Relating to certain election practices and procedures.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2629 expressly allows remote meetings and electronic voting for covered condominium and property owners’ associations, while retaining notice and p…
Official caption: Relating to organization of, meetings of, and voting by condominium unit owners' associations and property owners' associations.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2753 connects early in-person voting to Election Day, with no intervening days when regular in-person voting is closed.
Official caption: Relating to the integration of early voting by personal appearance and election day voting, including the manner in which election returns are processed and other related changes.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2964 makes the early voting clerk’s notice-and-correction process for certain mail-ballot defects mandatory and more structured.
Official caption: Relating to an opportunity to correct certain defects in an early voting ballot voted by mail.
Second called session · Source-checked explanation published
Texas redrew its 38 U.S. congressional districts with plan PLANC2333 for the 2026 primary and general elections for the 120th Congress.
Official caption: Relating to the composition of the districts for the election of members of the United States House of Representatives from the State of Texas.
Second called session · Source-checked explanation published
SB54 removes the newly enacted immediate-effect rule for voter-registration address changes within the same county.
Official caption: Relating to election procedures regarding accepting a voter with a residence address that is not current and the immediate effect of a voter's registration after the registrar's receipt of certain change of address notices.
