SB 447 Texas Senate · 89th Legislature (2025)

Relating to authorizing certain municipalities to change the date on which their general election for officers is held.

SB 447 allows specific Texas border municipalities with populations over 85,000 that host the annual Texas Citrus Fiesta to move their general election dates to the statewide November uniform election date. Currently, these municipalities hold elections on a different date, but the bill permits them to align with the standard November election cycle. Once a municipality switches to November, it must keep all future general elections on that date and cannot revert to another schedule. The law takes effect September 1, 2025, applying only to qualifying border communities.

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Nov 2024

Committee Review

May 2025

Senate Passage

Jun 2025

House Passage

Jun 2025

Signed into Law

Jun 2025

Introduced Nov 21, 2024 Signed Jun 20, 2025

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What changed between versions

Engrossed → Enrolled · 4 edits · Jun 20, 2025

MODERATE

The bill text was converted from a draft version to the final enrolled version, adding official certification signatures and vote counts while removing draft annotations. The substantive policy content regarding election date changes for municipalities remains unchanged.

TECHNICAL

Added official enrolled version header with bill number 89(R) and certification signatures from Senate President, House Speaker, Secretary of the Senate, Chief Clerk of the House, and Governor.

Added certification text documenting Senate and House vote counts and conference committee actions with specific dates in April and May 2025.

Removed draft annotations including author name, bill number formatting, and line numbers that were used during the legislative process.

Reformatted text from draft markup style to clean enrolled bill text, removing bracketed deletion/insertion markers and extra spacing.

Floor votes · House May 27, 2025

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

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Committee

Amendments

Jun 20, 2025

Signed into law

Signed by the Governor

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Jun 2, 2025

Lower · Passed

Signed in the House

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Jun 1, 2025

Upper · Passed

Signed in the Senate

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May 31, 2025

Upper · Passed

Senate adopts conference committee report

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May 31, 2025

Lower · Passed

House adopts conference committee report

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May 30, 2025

Lower · Passed

House grants request for conference committee

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May 29, 2025

Lower · Passed

Senate requests conference committee-reported

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May 29, 2025

Upper · Passed

Senate requests conference committee

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May 29, 2025

Introduced

House amendment(s) laid before the Senate

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May 27, 2025

Upper · Passed

House passage as amended reported

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May 27, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed

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May 27, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed to 3rd reading as amended

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May 27, 2025

Lower · Passed

Amended

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May 21, 2025

Lower · Passed

Committee report sent to Calendars

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May 20, 2025

Lower · Passed

Committee report distributed

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May 16, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

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May 15, 2025

Lower · Passed

Left pending in committee

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May 15, 2025

Lower · Passed

Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

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Apr 17, 2025

Committee

Referred to Elections

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Apr 17, 2025

Introduced

Read first time

lower

Apr 14, 2025

Introduced

Received from the Senate

lower

Apr 10, 2025

Upper · Passed

Passed

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Mar 17, 2025

Upper · Passed

Committee report printed and distributed

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Mar 17, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported favorably w/o amendments

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Mar 13, 2025

Upper · Passed

Vote taken in committee

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Mar 10, 2025

Upper · Passed

Left pending in committee

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Feb 3, 2025

Committee

Referred to State Affairs

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Feb 3, 2025

Introduced

Read first time

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2 primary · 0 co-sponsors