republic-os/legislation/us/states/tx/89r/hb-493.md

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Bill	Relating to ineligibility to serve as a poll watcher.	Relating to ineligibility to serve as a poll watcher.	us/states/tx	Texas Legislature	89R	HB 493	Texas HB 493 (89R)	bill	Elections--Election Officers (I0305) Elections--General (I0310)	enacted	Capriglione Hughes Metcalf Shaheen	5	77	8	2024-11-12	2025-06-20	openstates	ocd-bill/3c5fe33b-9cec-4c71-8bee-aa23d601e1c4	ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00400_HB00499/HB 493.xml	5127dc325d17b17f8facff1af6a5bdc62b439fca6914f95bf1f05af6c005ff79	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-tx

Texas HB 493 (89R) — Relating to ineligibility to serve as a poll watcher.

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 — 24–7 (pass) · upper
• passage — 86–52 (pass) · lower
• passage — 90–44 (pass) · lower
• passage — 82–53 (pass) · lower
• Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that HB 493 be placed on its third reading and final passage. — 27–4 (pass) · upper
• passage — 26–5 (pass) · upper
• passage — 90–44 (pass) · upper
• passage — 23–8 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Capriglione — primary (person)
• Hughes — primary (person)
• Metcalf — primary (person)
• Shaheen — primary (person)
• Bettencourt — cosponsor (person)
• Hagenbuch — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-11-12 Filed filing
• 2025-02-28 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-02-28 Referred to Elections referral-committee
• 2025-03-20 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-03-20 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
• 2025-03-20 Left pending in committee
• 2025-03-27 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-03-27 Committee substitute considered in committee substitution
• 2025-03-27 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-31 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
• 2025-03-31 Committee report distributed
• 2025-03-31 Committee report sent to Calendars
• 2025-04-17 Considered in Calendars
• 2025-05-08 Considered in Calendars
• 2025-05-10 Placed on General State Calendar
• 2025-05-12 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-05-12 Point of order withdrawn withdrawal
• 2025-05-12 Passed to engrossment
• 2025-05-12 Record vote
• 2025-05-12 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-13 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-05-13 Passed passage
• 2025-05-13 Record vote
• 2025-05-13 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-13 Reported engrossed
• 2025-05-14 Received from the House introduction
• 2025-05-15 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-05-15 Referred to State Affairs referral-committee
• 2025-05-22 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
• 2025-05-22 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-05-22 Testimony taken in committee
• 2025-05-22 Vote taken in committee
• 2025-05-23 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-23 Committee report printed and distributed
• 2025-05-26 Co-sponsor authorized
• 2025-05-26 Placed on intent calendar
• 2025-05-26 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
• 2025-05-26 Record vote
• 2025-05-26 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-05-26 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
• 2025-05-26 Amended amendment-passage
• 2025-05-26 Vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-26 Passed to 3rd reading as amended amendment-passage
• 2025-05-26 Record vote
• 2025-05-26 Three day rule suspended
• 2025-05-26 Record vote
• 2025-05-26 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-05-26 Passed passage
• 2025-05-26 Record vote
• 2025-05-26 Senate passage as amended reported amendment-passage
• 2025-05-27 Senate Amendments distributed
• 2025-05-27 Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
• 2025-05-28 House refuses to concur in Senate amendments
• 2025-05-28 House requests conference committee
• 2025-05-28 House appoints conferees
• 2025-05-28 House refuses to concur-reported
• 2025-05-28 House requests conference committee-reported
• 2025-05-28 House appoints conferees-reported
• 2025-05-29 Senate grants request for conference comm.
• 2025-05-29 Senate appoints conferees
• 2025-05-29 Senate grants request for conf comm-reported
• 2025-05-29 Senate appoints conferees-reported
• 2025-05-31 Conference committee report filed filing
• 2025-05-31 Conf. Comm. Report distributed
• 2025-06-01 House adopts conference committee report committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-01 Record vote
• 2025-06-01 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-06-01 Senate adopts conference committee report committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-01 Record vote
• 2025-06-01 House adopts conf. comm. report-reported
• 2025-06-01 Senate adopts conf. comm. report-reported
• 2025-06-02 Reported enrolled enrolled
• 2025-06-02 Signed in the House passage
• 2025-06-02 Signed in the Senate passage
• 2025-06-02 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-06-20 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2025-06-20 Effective on 9/1/25 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3c5fe33b-9cec-4c71-8bee-aa23d601e1c4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).