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| Bill | Relating to establishing a pilot program for recording ballot counting activity. | Relating to establishing a pilot program for recording ballot counting activity. | us/states/tx | Texas Legislature | 88 | HB 246 | Texas HB 246 (88) |
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5 | 48 | 3 | 2022-11-14 | 2023-06-18 | openstates | ocd-bill/371f5823-6ee7-45f4-9e2d-8a0568b341be | ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/88R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00200_HB00299/HB 246.xml | 733ffe59bde29f7371a395279030b5827df299581ac3ae91ebfc1e437f4c28ba | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Texas HB 246 (88) — Relating to establishing a pilot program for recording ballot counting activity.
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
- passage — 19–12 (pass) · upper
- passage — 19–12 (pass) · upper
- passage — 83–58 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Bettencourt — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)
- Swanson — primary (person)
- Capriglione — cosponsor (person)
- Creighton — cosponsor (person)
- DeAyala — cosponsor (person)
- Leo-Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
- Thimesch — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2022-11-14 Filed
filing - 2023-02-23 Read first time
introduction, reading-1 - 2023-02-23 Referred to Elections
referral-committee - 2023-04-04 Considered in public hearing
- 2023-04-04 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- 2023-04-04 Left pending in committee
- 2023-04-13 Considered in public hearing
- 2023-04-13 Committee substitute considered in committee
substitution - 2023-04-13 Reported favorably as substituted
committee-passage-favorable - 2023-04-25 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
filing - 2023-04-25 Committee report distributed
- 2023-04-26 Committee report sent to Calendars
- 2023-04-28 Considered in Calendars
- 2023-05-02 Placed on General State Calendar
- 2023-05-02 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2023-05-02 Passed to engrossment
- 2023-05-03 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2023-05-03 Passed
passage - 2023-05-03 Record vote
- 2023-05-03 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- 2023-05-03 Reported engrossed
- 2023-05-04 Received from the House
introduction - 2023-05-05 Read first time
introduction, reading-1 - 2023-05-05 Referred to State Affairs
referral-committee - 2023-05-15 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- 2023-05-15 Considered in public hearing
- 2023-05-15 Testimony taken in committee
- 2023-05-15 Vote taken in committee
- 2023-05-16 Reported favorably w/o amendments
committee-passage-favorable - 2023-05-16 Committee report printed and distributed
- 2023-05-17 Co-sponsor authorized
- 2023-05-17 Placed on intent calendar
- 2023-05-17 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- 2023-05-17 Record vote
- 2023-05-17 Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
reading-2 - 2023-05-17 Record vote
- 2023-05-18 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- 2023-05-18 Record vote
- 2023-05-18 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2023-05-18 Passed
passage - 2023-05-18 Record vote
- 2023-05-19 Senate passage reported
passage - 2023-05-19 Reported enrolled
enrolled - 2023-05-22 Signed in the House
passage - 2023-05-23 Signed in the Senate
passage - 2023-05-24 Sent to the Governor
executive-receipt - 2023-06-18 Signed by the Governor
executive-signature - 2023-06-18 Effective on 9/1/23
became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/371f5823-6ee7-45f4-9e2d-8a0568b341be. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).