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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to accommodating voters with a disability."
+description: "Relating to accommodating voters with a disability."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "88"
+identifier: "SB 477"
+citation: "Texas SB 477 (88)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Disabilities", "Persons with (I0380)", "Elections--Administration (I0277)", "Elections--Early Voting (I0260)", "Elections--Registration & Suffrage (I0265)", "INTERNET (S0130)", "SECRETARY OF STATE (V0042)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bucy", "González, Jessica", "Zaffirini"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 56
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-01-17"
+last_action: "2023-06-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/519bf7cc-d8db-4856-b558-b17074c71883"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/88R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00400_SB00499/SB 477.xml"
+source_hash: "05e228f0d06ce5b16529307d219d4c1934e21237528bd352a9480b0e51d94d60"
+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 SB 477 (88) — Relating to accommodating voters with a disability.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB00477I.HTM)
+2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB00477E.HTM)
+3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB00477H.HTM)
+4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB00477S.HTM)
+5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB00477F.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **29–2** (pass) · upper
+- passage — **109–25** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bucy — primary (person)
+- González, Jessica — primary (person)
+- Zaffirini — primary (person)
+- Morales, Christina — cosponsor (person)
+- Plesa — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-17** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing, introduction`
+- **2023-01-17** Filed `filing`
+- **2023-02-17** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2023-02-17** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-27** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2023-03-27** Considered in public hearing
+- **2023-03-27** Testimony taken in committee
+- **2023-03-27** Left pending in committee
+- **2023-03-30** Considered in public hearing
+- **2023-03-30** Vote taken in committee
+- **2023-04-05** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-05** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
+- **2023-04-05** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2023-04-12** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
+- **2023-04-12** Laid before the Senate `receipt`
+- **2023-04-12** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment `reading-2`
+- **2023-04-12** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2023-04-12** Three day rule suspended
+- **2023-04-12** Record vote
+- **2023-04-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-12** Passed `passage`
+- **2023-04-12** Record vote
+- **2023-04-12** Reported engrossed
+- **2023-04-12** Received from the Senate `introduction`
+- **2023-04-14** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2023-04-14** Referred to Elections `referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-04** Considered in public hearing
+- **2023-05-04** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2023-05-04** Left pending in committee
+- **2023-05-08** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2023-05-08** Committee substitute considered in committee `substitution`
+- **2023-05-08** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-11** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
+- **2023-05-11** Committee report distributed
+- **2023-05-12** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2023-05-18** Considered in Calendars
+- **2023-05-20** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2023-05-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-05-22** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-05-22** Passed to 3rd reading as amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-05-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-23** Passed `passage`
+- **2023-05-23** Record vote
+- **2023-05-23** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2023-05-23** House passage as amended reported `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-05-25** House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
+- **2023-05-25** Read
+- **2023-05-25** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
+- **2023-05-25** Record vote
+- **2023-05-25** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported
+- **2023-05-26** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-05-28** Signed in the Senate `passage`
+- **2023-05-29** Signed in the House `passage`
+- **2023-05-29** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-18** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-18** Effective immediately `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/519bf7cc-d8db-4856-b558-b17074c71883`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
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