Bill Text: TX HB640 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to the office hours of an election authority during an election period.

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)

Status: (Passed) 2025-06-20 - Effective on 9/1/25 [HB640 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB640-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 640

AN ACT
relating to the office hours of an election authority during an
election period.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 31.122(b), Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(b) In this section, "regular business day" [If the
political subdivision is an independent school district, a regular
business day] means a day on which the [school district's] main
business office of the county, city, or other political subdivision
is regularly open for business.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 640 was passed by the House on May 14,
2025, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 0, 3 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 640 was passed by the Senate on May
27, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor