republic-os/legislation/us/states/tx/89r/sb-688.md

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Bill	Relating to the date of the meeting of presidential electors of this state.	Relating to the date of the meeting of presidential electors of this state.	us/states/tx	Texas Legislature	89R	SB 688	Texas SB 688 (89R)	bill	Elections--General (I0310) Elections--Presidential (I0295)	enacted	Bucy Hayes Hughes Isaac Raymond	5	46	3	2024-12-20	2025-05-24	openstates	ocd-bill/589e945b-1dbe-40b3-baa8-287194cc31d7	ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00600_SB00699/SB 688.xml	61218d9a963c0b3cbcb965cc718f99b49aded1c2a5cc855c37b5c062cb0ec44f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-tx

Texas SB 688 (89R) — Relating to the date of the meeting of presidential electors of this state.

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 — 140–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that SB 688 be placed on its third reading and final passage. — 30–0 (pass) · upper
• passage — 124–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bucy — primary (person)
• Hayes — primary (person)
• Hughes — primary (person)
• Isaac — primary (person)
• Raymond — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-12-20 Received by the Secretary of the Senate filing, introduction
• 2024-12-20 Filed filing
• 2025-02-03 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Referred to State Affairs referral-committee
• 2025-02-27 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
• 2025-02-27 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-02-27 Left pending in committee
• 2025-03-03 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-03-03 Vote taken in committee
• 2025-03-05 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-05 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
• 2025-03-05 Committee report printed and distributed
• 2025-03-12 Placed on intent calendar
• 2025-03-13 Rules suspended-Constitutional 60-Day
• 2025-03-13 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
• 2025-03-13 Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment reading-2
• 2025-03-13 Vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-03-13 Three day rule suspended
• 2025-03-13 Record vote
• 2025-03-13 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-13 Passed passage
• 2025-03-13 Record vote
• 2025-03-13 Reported engrossed
• 2025-03-18 Received from the Senate introduction
• 2025-04-09 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-04-09 Referred to Elections referral-committee
• 2025-04-17 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-04-17 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-23 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
• 2025-04-23 Committee report distributed
• 2025-04-25 Committee report sent to Calendars
• 2025-05-09 Laid out in lieu of companion
• 2025-05-09 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-05-09 Passed to 3rd reading
• 2025-05-09 Record vote
• 2025-05-10 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-05-10 Passed passage
• 2025-05-10 Record vote
• 2025-05-10 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-12 House passage reported passage
• 2025-05-12 Reported enrolled enrolled
• 2025-05-13 Signed in the Senate passage
• 2025-05-13 Signed in the House passage
• 2025-05-13 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-24 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-24 Effective on 9/1/25 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/589e945b-1dbe-40b3-baa8-287194cc31d7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).