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+type: "Bill"
+title: "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."
+description: "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."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "892"
+identifier: "SB 54"
+citation: "Texas SB 54 (892)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Elections--Administration (I0277)", "Elections--General (I0310)", "Elections--Registration & Suffrage (I0265)", "Electronic Information Systems (I0311)", "Political Subdivisions (I0588)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hughes", "Shaheen"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 49
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2025-08-26"
+last_action: "2025-09-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af05a12e-0441-48d6-b130-b5412d18de02"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/892/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00001_SB00099/SB 54.xml"
+source_hash: "b37f75e95f39952d6b81f5fe50d41c38f3c20e2c60d754aa12723c902dfc1d65"
+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 54 (892) — 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.
+
+## 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/892/billtext/html/SB00054I.HTM)
+2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/892/billtext/html/SB00054E.HTM)
+3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/892/billtext/html/SB00054H.HTM)
+4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/892/billtext/html/SB00054F.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **19–8** (pass) · upper
+- passage — **19–7** (pass) · upper
+- passage — **86–46** (pass) · lower
+- passage — **87–46** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hughes — primary (person)
+- Shaheen — primary (person)
+- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
+- Hagenbuch — cosponsor (person)
+- Hall — cosponsor (person)
+- Hinojosa, Adam — cosponsor (person)
+- King — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Parker — cosponsor (person)
+- Schwertner — cosponsor (person)
+- Sparks — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-08-26** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing, introduction`
+- **2025-08-26** Filed `filing`
+- **2025-08-26** Co-author authorized
+- **2025-08-26** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-08-26** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2025-08-26** Posting rule suspended
+- **2025-08-26** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2025-08-26** Considered in public hearing
+- **2025-08-26** Vote taken in committee
+- **2025-08-26** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-08-26** Printing rule suspended
+- **2025-08-26** Ordered not printed
+- **2025-08-26** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2025-08-26** Record vote
+- **2025-08-26** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment `reading-2`
+- **2025-08-26** Record vote
+- **2025-08-27** Co-author authorized
+- **2025-08-27** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2025-08-27** Record vote
+- **2025-08-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-08-27** Passed `passage`
+- **2025-08-27** Record vote
+- **2025-08-27** Reported engrossed
+- **2025-08-28** Received from the Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-08-28** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-08-28** Referred to Elections `referral-committee`
+- **2025-08-28** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2025-08-28** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-08-28** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
+- **2025-08-28** Committee report distributed
+- **2025-08-28** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2025-08-28** Considered in Calendars
+- **2025-09-02** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2025-09-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-09-02** Passed to 3rd reading
+- **2025-09-02** Record vote
+- **2025-09-02** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-09-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-09-02** Passed `passage`
+- **2025-09-02** Record vote
+- **2025-09-02** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-09-02** Reason for vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-09-02** House passage reported `passage`
+- **2025-09-02** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2025-09-03** Signed in the Senate `passage`
+- **2025-09-03** Signed in the House `passage`
+- **2025-09-04** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-09-17** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-09-17** Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/af05a12e-0441-48d6-b130-b5412d18de02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
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