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Bill Relating to the signature required on a carrier envelope for a ballot voted by mail; changing the elements of a criminal offense. Relating to the signature required on a carrier envelope for a ballot voted by mail; changing the elements of a criminal offense. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 88 HB 1299 Texas HB 1299 (88)
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DIGITAL SIGNATURES (S0144)
Elections--Early Voting (I0260)
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Noble
Paxton
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Texas HB 1299 (88) — Relating to the signature required on a carrier envelope for a ballot voted by mail; changing the elements of a criminal offense.

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

Votes

  • passage — 2011 (pass) · upper
  • passage — 8648 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 256 (pass) · upper
  • passage — 9148 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Noble — primary (person)
  • Paxton — primary (person)
  • Bumgarner — cosponsor (person)
  • Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
  • Tepper — cosponsor (person)
  • Thimesch — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2023-01-12 Filed filing
  • 2023-03-03 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-03-03 Referred to Elections referral-committee
  • 2023-04-20 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-04-20 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
  • 2023-04-20 Left pending in committee
  • 2023-04-27 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-04-27 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-05-05 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2023-05-06 Committee report distributed
  • 2023-05-06 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2023-05-08 Considered in Calendars
  • 2023-05-10 Placed on General State Calendar
  • 2023-05-11 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2023-05-11 Point of order withdrawn withdrawal
  • 2023-05-11 Passed to engrossment
  • 2023-05-11 Record vote
  • 2023-05-11 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-05-12 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-05-12 Passed passage
  • 2023-05-12 Record vote
  • 2023-05-12 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-05-12 Reported engrossed
  • 2023-05-15 Received from the House introduction
  • 2023-05-16 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-05-16 Referred to State Affairs referral-committee
  • 2023-05-18 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2023-05-18 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-05-18 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2023-05-18 Vote taken in committee
  • 2023-05-19 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-05-19 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2023-05-21 Placed on intent calendar
  • 2023-05-22 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
  • 2023-05-22 Record vote
  • 2023-05-22 Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading reading-2
  • 2023-05-22 Record vote
  • 2023-05-22 Remarks ordered printed
  • 2023-05-22 Three day rule suspended
  • 2023-05-22 Record vote
  • 2023-05-22 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-05-22 Passed passage
  • 2023-05-22 Record vote
  • 2023-05-22 Senate passage reported passage
  • 2023-05-23 Reported enrolled enrolled
  • 2023-05-25 Signed in the House passage
  • 2023-05-26 Signed in the Senate passage
  • 2023-05-26 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
  • 2023-06-12 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2023-06-12 Effective on 9/1/23 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c4d5ee58-b498-4107-92f8-bd6c82b83bbf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).