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Bill Relating to an election ballot. Relating to an election ballot. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 86 HB 88 Texas HB 88 (86)
bill
Elections--Administration (I0277)
Elections--Candidates (I0280)
Elections--Primaries (I0285)
Elections--Voting Systems (I0270)
enacted
Fallon
Swanson
1 51 3 2018-11-12 2019-06-10 openstates ocd-bill/2e1fc068-27d2-46d4-ae79-58d4c84a3c21 ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00001_HB00099/HB 88.xml 81348e6a7293bd965a08c44c851f4e1d1c5a999f5f89770c63bcac67aaf6416e 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-tx

Texas HB 88 (86) — Relating to an election ballot.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

  1. Introduced (filed) — source

Votes

  • passage — 12418 (pass) · lower
  • other — 12418 (fail) · upper
  • passage — 1450 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Fallon — primary (person)
  • Swanson — primary (person)
  • Bucy — cosponsor (person)
  • Cain — cosponsor (person)
  • Lang — cosponsor (person)
  • Zedler — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

  • 2018-11-12 Filed filing
  • 2019-02-12 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2019-02-12 Referred to Elections referral-committee
  • 2019-03-04 Considered in public hearing
  • 2019-03-04 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
  • 2019-03-04 Left pending in committee
  • 2019-03-18 Considered in public hearing
  • 2019-03-18 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage
  • 2019-03-21 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
  • 2019-03-21 Committee report distributed
  • 2019-03-22 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2019-03-27 Considered in Calendars
  • 2019-04-01 Placed on General State Calendar
  • 2019-04-01 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2019-04-01 Passed to engrossment
  • 2019-04-02 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2019-04-02 Passed passage
  • 2019-04-02 Record vote
  • 2019-04-02 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2019-04-02 Reported engrossed
  • 2019-04-03 Received from the House introduction
  • 2019-04-04 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2019-04-04 Referred to State Affairs referral-committee
  • 2019-05-09 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2019-05-09 Considered in public hearing
  • 2019-05-09 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2019-05-13 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
  • 2019-05-13 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
  • 2019-05-13 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2019-05-14 Placed on intent calendar
  • 2019-05-15 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
  • 2019-05-15 Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
  • 2019-05-15 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2019-05-15 Three day rule suspended
  • 2019-05-15 Record vote
  • 2019-05-15 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2019-05-15 Passed passage
  • 2019-05-15 Record vote
  • 2019-05-15 Senate passage as amended reported
  • 2019-05-15 Senate Amendments distributed
  • 2019-05-15 Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
  • 2019-05-22 House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
  • 2019-05-22 Record vote
  • 2019-05-22 Text of Senate Amendment(s)
  • 2019-05-22 House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported
  • 2019-05-22 Reported enrolled
  • 2019-05-23 Signed in the House
  • 2019-05-24 Signed in the Senate
  • 2019-05-25 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
  • 2019-06-10 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2019-06-10 Effective on 9/1/19 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2e1fc068-27d2-46d4-ae79-58d4c84a3c21. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).