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type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the countywide polling place program."
description: "Relating to the countywide polling place program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "HB 3965"
citation: "Texas HB 3965 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County Government--General (I0096)", "Elections--Early Voting (I0260)", "Elections--General (I0310)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bohac", "Huffman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 53
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-07"
last_action: "2019-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4aca2603-0ad7-4a16-ae6c-1bb3d7a6b889"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB03900_HB03999/HB 3965.xml"
source_hash: "7bf2a2e902d98cb450a793778658be6e98b4d9264e68057b977722e13bdcae5e"
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 3965 (86) — Relating to the countywide polling place program.
## 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/HB03965I.HTM)
## Votes
- other — **1420** (fail) · upper
- passage — **1420** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bohac — primary (person)
- Huffman — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-03-07** Filed `filing`
- **2019-03-21** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-21** Referred to Elections `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-15** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-15** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2019-04-15** Left pending in committee
- **2019-04-25** Considered in formal meeting
- **2019-04-25** Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-25** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-26** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-04-28** Committee report distributed
- **2019-04-28** Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
- **2019-04-30** Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
- **2019-05-03** Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
- **2019-05-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-03** Passed to engrossment
- **2019-05-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-03** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-03** Record vote
- **2019-05-03** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-03** Reported engrossed
- **2019-05-06** Received from the House `introduction`
- **2019-05-06** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-05-06** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-13** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-05-13** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-05-13** Testimony taken in committee
- **2019-05-15** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-15** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-05-15** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-05-20** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-05-20** Laid before the Senate
- **2019-05-20** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
- **2019-05-20** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-20** Three day rule suspended
- **2019-05-20** Record vote
- **2019-05-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-20** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-20** Record vote
- **2019-05-21** Senate passage as amended reported
- **2019-05-21** Senate Amendments distributed
- **2019-05-21** Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
- **2019-05-23** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
- **2019-05-23** Record vote
- **2019-05-23** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-23** Text of Senate Amendment(s)
- **2019-05-23** 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
- **2019-05-28** 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/4aca2603-0ad7-4a16-ae6c-1bb3d7a6b889`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).