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| Bill | Relating to auditable voting systems. | Relating to auditable voting systems. | us/states/tx | Texas Legislature | 87 | SB 598 | Texas SB 598 (87) |
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5 | 59 | 4 | 2021-02-05 | 2021-06-14 | openstates | ocd-bill/0c594158-7e40-4129-a7cb-3d888a8fdc0b | ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/87R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00500_SB00599/SB 598.xml | 09a54e312a3e56c5b0ddd0af4f2e6a3731ecc6edec6a4d6ed8574d026e87ce6f | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Texas SB 598 (87) — Relating to auditable voting systems.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
- House Committee Report (committee substitute) — source
- Senate Committee Report (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- other — 0–0 (fail) · upper
- other — 0–0 (fail) · upper
- other — 0–0 (fail) · upper
- passage — 136–8 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Bonnen — primary (person)
- Burrows — primary (person)
- Cain — primary (person)
- Clardy — primary (person)
- Jetton — primary (person)
- Kolkhorst — primary (person)
- Allison — cosponsor (person)
- Button — cosponsor (person)
- Goldman — cosponsor (person)
- Hefner — cosponsor (person)
- Leman — cosponsor (person)
- Lozano — cosponsor (person)
- Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
- Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Schofield — cosponsor (person)
- Slawson — cosponsor (person)
- White — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2021-02-05 Received by the Secretary of the Senate
filing - 2021-02-05 Filed
filing - 2021-03-11 Read first time
introduction, reading-1 - 2021-03-11 Referred to State Affairs
referral-committee - 2021-03-26 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- 2021-03-26 Considered in public hearing
- 2021-03-26 Testimony taken in committee
- 2021-03-26 Left pending in committee
- 2021-03-31 Considered in public hearing
- 2021-04-01 Reported favorably as substituted
committee-passage-favorable - 2021-04-01 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- 2021-04-01 Committee report printed and distributed
- 2021-04-08 Placed on intent calendar
- 2021-04-12 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- 2021-04-12 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2021-04-12 Amendment(s) offered
amendment-introduction - 2021-04-12 Amended
amendment-passage - 2021-04-12 Vote recorded in Journal
- 2021-04-12 Amendment(s) offered
amendment-introduction - 2021-04-12 Amended
amendment-passage - 2021-04-12 Vote recorded in Journal
- 2021-04-12 Passed to engrossment as amended
- 2021-04-12 Vote recorded in Journal
- 2021-04-12 Three day rule suspended
- 2021-04-12 Record vote
- 2021-04-12 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2021-04-12 Passed
passage - 2021-04-12 Record vote
- 2021-04-12 Reported engrossed
- 2021-04-13 Received from the Senate
introduction - 2021-04-15 Read first time
introduction, reading-1 - 2021-04-15 Referred to Elections
referral-committee - 2021-04-29 Considered in public hearing
- 2021-04-29 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- 2021-04-29 Left pending in committee
- 2021-05-04 Considered in public hearing
- 2021-05-04 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)
committee-passage - 2021-05-14 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- 2021-05-17 Committee report distributed
- 2021-05-17 Committee report sent to Calendars
- 2021-05-23 Considered in Calendars
- 2021-05-25 Placed on General State Calendar
- 2021-05-25 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2021-05-25 Amended
amendment-passage - 2021-05-25 Vote reconsidered
- 2021-05-25 Amendment withdrawn
amendment-withdrawal - 2021-05-25 Passed to 3rd reading
- 2021-05-26 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2021-05-26 Amendment withdrawn
amendment-withdrawal - 2021-05-26 Passed
passage - 2021-05-26 Record vote
- 2021-05-26 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- 2021-05-28 House passage reported
- 2021-05-29 Reported enrolled
- 2021-05-30 Signed in the Senate
- 2021-05-31 Signed in the House
- 2021-06-01 Sent to the Governor
executive-receipt - 2021-06-14 Signed by the Governor
executive-signature - 2021-06-14 Effective on 9/1/21
became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0c594158-7e40-4129-a7cb-3d888a8fdc0b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).