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Bill Relating to the penalty for the crime of election fraud; increasing a criminal penalty. Relating to the penalty for the crime of election fraud; increasing a criminal penalty. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 89R HB 5115 Texas HB 5115 (89R)
bill
Crimes--Miscellaneous (I0200)
Elections--General (I0310)
FRAUD (S0166)
enacted
Fairly
Hughes
Leo Wilson
McQueeney
Patterson
Shaheen
5 53 4 2025-03-13 2025-06-20 openstates ocd-bill/0d0fbfd4-a53d-479c-a947-72766e81755c ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/house_bills/HB05100_HB05199/HB 5115.xml 7db824fd6f79b90210e97c00c67be9e5c24c976b7d52359ad1c9c6a1495a3e8d 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-tx

Texas HB 5115 (89R) — Relating to the penalty for the crime of election fraud; increasing a criminal penalty.

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 — 8949 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 2110 (pass) · upper
  • passage — 8854 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 2110 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Fairly — primary (person)
  • Hughes — primary (person)
  • Leo Wilson — primary (person)
  • McQueeney — primary (person)
  • Patterson — primary (person)
  • Shaheen — primary (person)
  • Creighton — cosponsor (person)
  • Hagenbuch — cosponsor (person)
  • Hinojosa, Adam — cosponsor (person)
  • Isaac — cosponsor (person)
  • King — cosponsor (person)
  • Kolkhorst — cosponsor (person)
  • Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
  • Morgan — cosponsor (person)
  • Parker — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-03-13 Filed filing
  • 2025-04-07 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2025-04-07 Referred to Elections referral-committee
  • 2025-04-17 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-04-17 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
  • 2025-04-17 Left pending in committee
  • 2025-04-28 Considered in formal meeting
  • 2025-04-28 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-05-05 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2025-05-05 Committee report distributed
  • 2025-05-06 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2025-05-08 Considered in Calendars
  • 2025-05-10 Placed on General State Calendar
  • 2025-05-14 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2025-05-14 Point of order withdrawn withdrawal
  • 2025-05-14 Point of order withdrawn withdrawal
  • 2025-05-14 Passed to engrossment
  • 2025-05-14 Record vote
  • 2025-05-14 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-05-15 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2025-05-15 Passed passage
  • 2025-05-15 Record vote
  • 2025-05-15 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-05-15 Reported engrossed
  • 2025-05-15 Received from the House introduction
  • 2025-05-21 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2025-05-21 Referred to State Affairs referral-committee
  • 2025-05-21 Posting rule suspended
  • 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
  • 2025-05-25 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-05-25 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 & passed to 3rd reading reading-2
  • 2025-05-26 Record vote
  • 2025-05-28 Not again placed on intent calendar
  • 2025-05-28 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
  • 2025-05-28 Record vote
  • 2025-05-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2025-05-28 Passed passage
  • 2025-05-28 Record vote
  • 2025-05-28 Senate passage reported passage
  • 2025-05-28 Reported enrolled enrolled
  • 2025-05-28 Signed in the House passage
  • 2025-05-28 Signed in the Senate passage
  • 2025-05-30 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/0d0fbfd4-a53d-479c-a947-72766e81755c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).