republic-os/legislation/us/states/tx/87/hb-1264.md

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Bill	Relating to the time for making required reports of deceased residents of this state to a voter registrar and to the secretary of state.	Relating to the time for making required reports of deceased residents of this state to a voter registrar and to the secretary of state.	us/states/tx	Texas Legislature	87	HB 1264	Texas HB 1264 (87)	bill	BIRTH & DEATH CERTIFICATES (S6418) County Government--Employees/Officers (I0095) Elections--Administration (I0277) Elections--General (I0310) Elections--Registration & Suffrage (I0265) Probate--Wills & Admin of Estates (I0590)	enacted	Bell, Keith Cain Harless Springer	5	47	0	2021-01-21	2021-06-04	openstates	ocd-bill/f7c504e1-8585-4414-ac01-b87907734074	ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/87R/billhistory/house_bills/HB01200_HB01299/HB 1264.xml	2660cd996c47e64e354f2ab166253595ee05ee9d7874335396ce059750c45b6d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-tx

Texas HB 1264 (87) — Relating to the time for making required reports of deceased residents of this state to a voter registrar and to the secretary of state.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
3. House Committee Report (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Committee Report (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Sponsors

• Bell, Keith — primary (person)
• Cain — primary (person)
• Harless — primary (person)
• Springer — primary (person)
• Burns — cosponsor (person)
• Dean — cosponsor (person)
• Hall — cosponsor (person)
• Holland — cosponsor (person)
• Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
• Swanson — cosponsor (person)
• Tinderholt — cosponsor (person)
• Toth — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-21 Filed filing
• 2021-03-04 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2021-03-04 Referred to Elections referral-committee
• 2021-03-18 Considered in public hearing
• 2021-03-18 Committee substitute considered in committee
• 2021-03-18 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
• 2021-03-18 Left pending in committee
• 2021-03-25 Considered in public hearing
• 2021-03-25 Committee substitute considered in committee
• 2021-03-25 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-01 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
• 2021-04-01 Committee report distributed
• 2021-04-06 Committee report sent to Calendars
• 2021-04-06 Considered in Calendars
• 2021-04-08 Placed on General State Calendar
• 2021-04-08 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2021-04-08 Passed to engrossment
• 2021-04-09 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2021-04-09 Passed passage
• 2021-04-09 Record vote
• 2021-04-09 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2021-04-09 Reported engrossed
• 2021-04-12 Received from the House introduction
• 2021-04-13 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2021-04-13 Referred to State Affairs referral-committee
• 2021-05-10 Co-sponsor authorized
• 2021-05-10 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
• 2021-05-10 Considered in public hearing
• 2021-05-10 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-10 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
• 2021-05-10 Committee report printed and distributed
• 2021-05-19 Placed on local & uncontested calendar
• 2021-05-19 Laid before the Senate
• 2021-05-19 Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
• 2021-05-19 Vote recorded in Journal
• 2021-05-19 Three day rule suspended
• 2021-05-19 Record vote
• 2021-05-19 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2021-05-19 Passed passage
• 2021-05-19 Record vote
• 2021-05-19 Senate passage reported
• 2021-05-20 Reported enrolled
• 2021-05-23 Signed in the House
• 2021-05-24 Signed in the Senate
• 2021-05-24 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-06-04 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2021-06-04 Effective on 9/1/21 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f7c504e1-8585-4414-ac01-b87907734074. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).