Bill Text: TX HB3144 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the use of a public school or institution of higher education as a polling place.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-03-20 - Referred to Elections [HB3144 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB3144-Introduced.html

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89R4651 PRL-D
By: Isaac H.B. No. 3144

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the use of a public school or institution of higher
education as a polling place.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 43.031(a) and (e), Election Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(a) In this subchapter:[,]
(1) "Institution of higher education" has the meaning
assigned by Section 61.003, Education Code.
(2) "Public [public] building" means a building owned
or controlled by the state or a political subdivision.
(e) A polling place may not be located:
(1) on a campus of a public primary or secondary school
or institution of higher education, unless the campus is closed for
operation during the period for voting; or
(2) at the residence of a person who is:
(A) [(1)] a candidate for an elective office,
including an office of a political party; or
(B) [(2)] related within the third degree by
consanguinity or the second degree by affinity, as determined under
Chapter 573, Government Code, to a candidate described by Paragraph
(A) [Subdivision (1)].
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.