HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:    Elections 

TIME & DATE:  8:00 AM, Thursday, April 20, 2023 

PLACE:        E2.016 
CHAIR:        Rep. Reggie Smith 

Public testimony will be limited to two (2) minutes. The chair may limit testimony time and the number of testifying witnesses to ensure consideration of posted and pending business, especially if testimony would cause the public hearing to extend into the next calendar day.

The order in which bills are heard is at the discretion of the chair.

HB 2809        Jetton | et al.                           
Relating to the interstate voter registration crosscheck program.

HB 1671        Jetton | et al.                           
Relating to vote harvesting; creating a civil penalty.

HB 453         Schofield | et al.                        
Relating to the use of public schools as polling place locations.

HB 862         Schofield | et al.                        
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 1140        Schofield                                 
Relating to the voter identification required for submission of an early voting ballot by mail.

HB 3732        Guerra                                    
Relating to requiring voting systems to produce a paper receipt.

HB 3736        Guerra                                    
Relating to a study by the secretary of state on the accuracy of the information contained in the statewide voter information database.

HB 5259        Toth                                      
Relating to death records maintained and provided by the vital statistics unit of the Department of State Health Services.

HB 223         Cortez                                    
Relating to the ballot application requirements for the election of a precinct chair.

HB 315         Cortez                                    
Relating to a statement by the secretary of state regarding the furnishing of certain personal information on an application for a ballot to be voted by mail.

HB 1299        Noble                                     
Relating to the signature required on a carrier envelope for a ballot voted by mail; changing the elements of a criminal offense.

HB 3449        Noble                                     
Relating to ballots voted by mail.

HB 3749        Flores                                    
Relating to the provision of the reason for rejecting a voter registration application.

HB 2954        Bumgarner                                 
Relating to the office hours of an election authority during an election period.

HB 4399        Hayes                                     
Relating to the plan for the operation of a central counting station.

HB 374         Bucy                                      
Relating to an application for an early voting ballot by mail.

HB 2860        Swanson                                   
Relating to maintaining certain voter registration information and reviewing ballots voted by mail; creating criminal offenses.

HB 4701        DeAyala                                   
Relating to the review of ballot proposition language for certain political subdivision elections.

HB 3537        Manuel                                    
Relating to a candidate's application for a place on the ballot for a party's primary election.

For those persons who will be testifying, information for in-person witness registration, can be found here: https://mytxlegis.capitol.texas.gov/HWRSPublic/About.aspx

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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: https://comments.house.texas.gov/home?c=c240

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