republic-os/legislation/us/states/tx/89r/hb-521.md

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Bill	Relating to accommodating voters with a disability; creating a criminal offense.	Relating to accommodating voters with a disability; creating a criminal offense.	us/states/tx	Texas Legislature	89R	HB 521	Texas HB 521 (89R)	bill	Crimes--Miscellaneous (I0200) Disabilities Persons with (I0380) Elections--Administration (I0277) Elections--Early Voting (I0260) Elections--Election Officers (I0305) SECRETARY OF STATE (V0042) SIGNS (S0235)	enacted	Guillen Paxton	5	71	13	2024-11-12	2025-06-20	openstates	ocd-bill/d562a574-86f5-4eb3-9ed4-f74e68f4b0cb	ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00500_HB00599/HB 521.xml	d3ca98d89e0eefe6dc8e2ad499ac01a88467fdb7dbef28e4ce8e986e1f11ea5e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-tx

Texas HB 521 (89R) — Relating to accommodating voters with a disability; creating 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 — 89–44 (pass) · lower
• passage — 20–11 (pass) · upper
• passage — 89–44 (pass) · upper
• other — 13–18 (fail) · upper
• passage — 85–53 (pass) · lower
• passage — 84–54 (pass) · lower
• passage — 21–10 (pass) · upper
• passage — 20–11 (pass) · upper
• passage — 19–12 (pass) · upper
• passage — 20–11 (pass) · upper
• passage — 19–12 (pass) · upper
• passage — 21–10 (pass) · upper
• other — 13–18 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Guillen — primary (person)
• Paxton — primary (person)
• Isaac — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-11-12 Filed filing
• 2025-03-03 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-03-03 Referred to Elections referral-committee
• 2025-03-20 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-03-20 Committee substitute considered in committee substitution
• 2025-03-20 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
• 2025-03-20 Left pending in committee
• 2025-04-03 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-04-03 Committee substitute considered in committee substitution
• 2025-04-03 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-07 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
• 2025-04-07 Committee report distributed
• 2025-04-08 Committee report sent to Calendars
• 2025-04-30 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 Amended amendment-passage
• 2025-05-12 Passed to engrossment as amended amendment-passage
• 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
• 2025-05-19 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-05-19 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 Placed on intent calendar
• 2025-05-27 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
• 2025-05-27 Record vote
• 2025-05-27 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-05-27 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
• 2025-05-27 Amended amendment-passage
• 2025-05-27 Record vote
• 2025-05-27 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
• 2025-05-27 Amended amendment-passage
• 2025-05-27 Vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-27 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
• 2025-05-27 Amendment fails of adoption amendment-failure
• 2025-05-27 Record vote
• 2025-05-27 Passed to 3rd reading as amended amendment-passage
• 2025-05-27 Record vote
• 2025-05-27 Remarks ordered printed
• 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 as amended reported amendment-passage
• 2025-05-28 Senate Amendments distributed
• 2025-05-28 Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
• 2025-05-29 Point of order withdrawn withdrawal
• 2025-05-29 House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
• 2025-05-29 Record vote
• 2025-05-29 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-29 Text of Senate Amendment(s)
• 2025-05-29 House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported
• 2025-05-30 Reported enrolled enrolled
• 2025-05-31 Signed in the House passage
• 2025-06-01 Signed in the Senate passage
• 2025-06-01 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/d562a574-86f5-4eb3-9ed4-f74e68f4b0cb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).