HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:    Elections 

TIME & DATE:  10:30 AM or upon final adjourn./recess or bill referral if permission granted
Thursday, April 17, 2025 

PLACE:        E2.012 
CHAIR:        Rep. Matt Shaheen 

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The chair may limit testimony to three (3) minutes per witness.

HB 1968        Cook                                      
Relating to a duty to contract for election services furnished for an election held on the first Saturday in May in an even-numbered year.

HB 2279        Schofield                                 
Relating to the cancellation of a person's voter registration on notice that the person has acknowledged that the person is not a citizen.

HB 2739        Isaac | et al.                            
Relating to requiring the address on certain identification documents presented by a voter match the address of the voter on the list of registered voters.

HB 2803        Hayes                                     
Relating to requiring an election judge to provide a watcher removed from a polling place a signed statement containing the reason for the removal.

HB 3909        Hickland                                  
Relating to the use of a wireless communication device at a polling place.

HB 3918        Plesa                                     
Relating to information on local regulations governing the placement of political signs in a municipality.

HB 4253        Gerdes                                    
Relating to confirmation of a voter's residence by a voter registrar.

HB 4475        Isaac                                     
Relating to the acceptance of a voter executing a declaration of reasonable impediment; providing a limitation.

HB 5115        Shaheen                                   
Relating to the penalty for the crime of election fraud; increasing a criminal penalty.

HB 5430        Wilson                                    
Relating to the declaration of a candidate's ineligibility on the basis of filing an application for a place on the general primary election ballot or for nomination by convention with more than one political party.

Texas residents who wish to electronically submit comments related to

agenda items on this notice without testifying in person can do so until

the hearing is adjourned by visiting:

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