---
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).