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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to political parties."
+description: "Relating to political parties."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "HB 2640"
+citation: "Texas HB 2640 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["County Government--Employees/Officers (I0095)", "Elections--Administration (I0277)", "Elections--Candidates (I0280)", "Elections--Early Voting (I0260)", "Elections--General (I0310)", "Elections--Political Parties (I0275)", "Elections--Primaries (I0285)", "INTERNET (S0130)", "SECRETARY OF STATE (V0042)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cortez", "Hughes"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 56
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-27"
+last_action: "2019-06-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3444fa02-3ea3-4a41-9ef3-794f127d1d18"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB02600_HB02699/HB 2640.xml"
+source_hash: "1caa5aaf8f13b1b5f2748703fc2ed07c98eed93b5306cdb6a6755998b0ac2cd5"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tx"]
+---
+
+# Texas HB 2640 (86) — Relating to political parties.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/86R/billtext/html/HB02640I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- other — **100–40** (fail) · upper
+- passage — **100–40** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cortez — primary (person)
+- Hughes — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-27** Filed `filing`
+- **2019-03-11** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-03-11** Referred to Elections `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-08** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-04-08** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2019-04-08** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-04-29** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-04-29** Committee substitute considered in committee
+- **2019-04-29** Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-29** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-05-02** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-05-03** Committee report distributed
+- **2019-05-03** Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
+- **2019-05-07** Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
+- **2019-05-10** Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
+- **2019-05-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-10** Passed to engrossment
+- **2019-05-10** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-10** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-10** Record vote
+- **2019-05-10** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-10** Reported engrossed
+- **2019-05-13** Received from the House `introduction`
+- **2019-05-14** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-05-14** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-16** Posting rule suspended
+- **2019-05-17** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-05-17** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-05-17** Testimony taken in committee
+- **2019-05-19** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-05-19** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
+- **2019-05-19** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2019-05-22** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
+- **2019-05-22** Laid before the Senate
+- **2019-05-22** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
+- **2019-05-22** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-22** Three day rule suspended
+- **2019-05-22** Record vote
+- **2019-05-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-22** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-22** Record vote
+- **2019-05-23** Senate passage as amended reported
+- **2019-05-23** Senate Amendments distributed
+- **2019-05-23** Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
+- **2019-05-24** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
+- **2019-05-24** Record vote
+- **2019-05-24** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-24** Text of Senate Amendment(s)
+- **2019-05-24** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported
+- **2019-05-25** Reported enrolled
+- **2019-05-26** Signed in the House
+- **2019-05-27** Signed in the Senate
+- **2019-05-29** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-14** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-14** Effective on 9/1/19 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3444fa02-3ea3-4a41-9ef3-794f127d1d18`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+