** REVISION ** — HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES — NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

** REVISION **
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:    Elections 

TIME & DATE:  11:00 AM, Thursday, May 14, 2026 

PLACE:        E2.012 
CHAIR:        Rep. Matt Shaheen 

*Public testimony may be limited at the discretion of the chair.*

The House Committee on Elections will meet in a public hearing to hear invited and public testimony on the following interim charges:

Monitoring: Monitor the implementation and associated rulemaking of all legislation passed by the Committee and enacted by the 89th Legislature to ensure that legislative purposes are properly implemented, including the following:

SB 827, relating to the audit of an election using an electronic voting system.

Election Timelines: Examine statutory timelines related to the administration of elections, including key deadlines. Evaluate the need to make adjustments to improve election administration, transparency,and voter access.

Election Transparency and Ballot Privacy: Survey the entities and types of election-related information subject to the Texas Public Information Act. Additionally, review ballot privacy and security requirements. Make recommendations to increase transparency, protect the public's right to review and inspect election records, and ensure ballot secrecy remains intact.

Citizenship and Voting: Study the integrity of the voting procedures in Texas, including voter registration and voter-roll maintenance, and make recommendations to ensure that only U.S. citizens are able to register and vote in Texas.

Election Administration Staffing Needs: Study the challenges faced by election officials in finding volunteers and staff for early-voting and election days. Identify methods or programs to increase the number of election workers necessary to administer elections.

Online submission of public comments will be available on the following topics:

Implementation of 89(R) Senate Bill 827 

Election Statutory Timelines in Texas

Election Transparency and Ballot Privacy in Texas

Citizenship and Voting in Texas

Election Administration Staffing Needs in Texas

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

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

A live video broadcast of this hearing will be available here: https://house.texas.gov/video-audio/

Instructions related to public access to the meeting location are available here: https://house.texas.gov/committees/public-access-house-committee-meetings/

**         See Committee Coordinator for previous versions         **
of this notice.

NOTICE OF ASSISTANCE AT PUBLIC MEETINGS

Persons with disabilities who plan to attend this meeting and who may need assistance, such as a sign language interpreter, are requested to contact Stacey Nicchio at (512) 463-0850, 72 hours prior to the meeting so that appropriate arrangements can be made.