Texas HB 464, which would have required candidates nominated by minor party conventions to pay filing fees, has failed to pass. Even though it passed its first Committee hearing, it did not advance further, and it is now too late for it to become law.
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It probably could but it won’t. The deadline for consideration in the House is Thursday, May 14. Scheduling of bills is by the Calendars committee, and even if bills get placed on the calendar, they might not reach the floor even if the clock is stopped.
It is great theater to watch the House on a deadline day/night as authors panic whether all their effort will be for naught. Some representatives will delay a bill, knowing that it will mean a couple fewer bills will be considered. Sometimes, the author will decide to let their bill die, making a motion for consideration to be delayed until a time certain which is in June or July. after the session is over. As bills go down, there is somebody whistling like a bomb being dropped, and then there will be an explosion sound.
A bad bill like HB 464 would just crowd out another bill that won’t be considered. HB 464 not only was bad in principle, it was cluelessly drafted.
There is some risk of the contents of HB 464 being placed as an amendment to a Christmas Tree bill. Texas is somewhat restrictive on germaneness, so you can’t take a totally unrelated bill and stuff junk in it, like haqppens in states like Illinois or California, but there may be election bills that have a broad enough title to accept almost anything to do with election procedures.
this is news to us. the bill passed out of elections committee, and sitting in the calendars committee. we have not heard of the vote in the calendars committee if you have sources for this please post them otherwise we will continue to work on preventing it from being scheduled for a floor vote.