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SB310 • 2025

Relating to the determination of a majority vote in certain elections.

Relating to the determination of a majority vote in certain elections.

Elections
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Hughes
Last action
2025-05-27
Official status
05/27/2025 H Postponed
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Relating to the determination of a majority vote in certain elections.

Relating to the determination of a majority vote in certain elections.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to the determination of a majority vote in certain elections.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  2. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Point of order withdrawn

  3. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Postponed. 6/26/25 10:00 AM

  4. 2025-05-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on General State Calendar

  5. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  6. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  7. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  8. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  9. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in formal meeting

  10. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

  11. 2025-04-17 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  12. 2025-04-17 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Elections

  13. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the Senate

  14. 2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Co-author authorized

  15. 2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  16. 2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  17. 2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment

  18. 2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  19. 2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Three day rule suspended

  20. 2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  21. 2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  22. 2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  23. 2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  24. 2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  25. 2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on intent calendar

  26. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Co-author authorized

  27. 2025-03-26 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendments

  28. 2025-03-26 Texas Legislature Online

    Recommended for local & uncontested calendar

  29. 2025-03-26 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  30. 2025-03-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  31. 2025-03-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  32. 2025-03-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  33. 2025-03-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  34. 2025-03-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken in committee

  35. 2025-03-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  36. 2025-02-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  37. 2025-02-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to State Affairs

  38. 2024-11-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Received by the Secretary of the Senate

  39. 2024-11-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to the determination of a majority vote in certain elections.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) SB 310 - House Committee Report version - Bill Text

By: Hughes, et al.

S.B. No. 310

(Patterson)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the determination of a majority vote in certain

elections.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 2, Election Code, is

amended by adding Section 2.0215 to read as follows:

Sec.

2.0215.

DETERMINATION OF MAJORITY VOTE. (a) In this

section, "preferential voting system"

means a voting system which

permits a voter to rank each candidate through a numerical

designation from the candidate the voter favors most to the

candidate the voter favors least.

(b)

In an election requiring a majority vote to be elected

to a public or political party office or to receive a political

party's nomination, a candidate must receive more than half of the

votes as originally cast. A majority may not be determined by using

a preferential voting system to reassign votes.

SECTION 2. Section 2.022(b), Election Code, is amended to

read as follows:

(b) Sections
2.0215,
2.023, 2.025, and 2.028 supersede a law

outside this subchapter to the extent of any conflict.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.