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Read. Follow. Verify.Texas restricts voters with outdated addresses to provisional ballots for countywide contests
Last action · August 26, 2025: No action taken in committeeSponsor: Bryan Hughes
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What This Bill Proposed
Relating to election procedures regarding accepting a voter with a residence address that is not current and the immediate effect of a voter's registration after the registrar's receipt of certain change of address notices.
Changes how voters who have moved within their county are permitted to cast ballots at polling places and limits their voting scope to countywide offices and propositions.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Voters who have changed residence within the county
Must cast provisional ballots limited to countywide contests when their registration address is not current.
Election officers
Must process provisional ballots and statements of residence submitted by voters with outdated addresses.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · passed the Senate · in the House.
Procedural history
7 actions- Aug 26, 2025SenateNo action taken in committee
- Aug 26, 2025SenateScheduled for public hearing on . . .
- Aug 26, 2025SenatePosting rule suspended
- Aug 26, 2025SenateCommitteeReferred to State Affairs
- Aug 26, 2025SenateIntroducedRead first time
- Aug 26, 2025SenateIntroducedFiled
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- Aug 26, 2025SenateReceived by the Secretary of the Senate
Version history
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Sources
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 65)
- Controversy50Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz30Current news / social attention level
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