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Bill Relating to political parties. Relating to political parties. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 86 HB 2640 Texas HB 2640 (86)
bill
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)
enacted
Cortez
Hughes
1 56 2 2019-02-27 2019-06-14 openstates ocd-bill/3444fa02-3ea3-4a41-9ef3-794f127d1d18 ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB02600_HB02699/HB 2640.xml 1caa5aaf8f13b1b5f2748703fc2ed07c98eed93b5306cdb6a6755998b0ac2cd5 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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

Votes

  • other — 10040 (fail) · upper
  • passage — 10040 (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; origin ocd-bill/3444fa02-3ea3-4a41-9ef3-794f127d1d18. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).