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14 Document(s) [ Subject: Election administration ]
| Committee: | House Elections | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Ballots | Election administration | Election laws | Electronic Registration Information Center | Harris County | Personally identifiable information | Secretary of State, Texas | Voter registration | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.88 EL25HE.pdf | |
| Session: | 88th R.S. (2023) | |
| Online version: | View report [47 pages File size: 1,646 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Monitoring: Monitor the agencies and programs under the Committee’s jurisdiction and oversee the implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 88th Legislature. Conduct active oversight of all associated rulemaking and other governmental actions taken to ensure the intended legislative outcome of all legislation, including the following:
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| 2. | Adherence to Texas Election Laws: Evaluate the Secretary of State’s Election Audit Program’s findings and solicit information regarding emergent election issues in other counties. Make recommendations to ensure counties faithfully adhere to Texas election laws and those tasked with administering and enforcing the law receive appropriate resources and training. | |
| Committee: | Senate State Affairs | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Affordable housing | Age (Law) | Agriculture | Alcohol laws and regulations | Audits | Beverages | Bingo | BlackRock | Boycotts | Child welfare | Children's mental health | Citizenship | Compassionate Use Act, Texas | Countywide Polling Place Program | Distilleries | e-commerce | Election administration | Election security | Electioneering | Elections | Emergency shelters | Environmental, Social, and Governance | Farm Bill | Farm produce | Financial investments | Foreign real estate transactions | Freedom of speech | Gambling | Government transparency | Hemp | High tech industry | Homelessness | Immigrants | Impeachment | Investment of public funds | Ku Klux Klan | Landlords and tenants | Lottery Commission, Texas | Lottery.com | Marijuana | Minors | Natural gas industry | Oil industry | Open government | Open Meetings Act, Texas | Open records requests and decisions | Paxton, Ken | Political violence | Pornography | Primary elections | Product safety | Public demonstrations | Public Information Act, Texas | Public retirement systems | Real estate transactions | Runoff elections | School districts | Secretary of State, Texas | Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment (SCOPE) Act | Social media | State comparisons | Substance abuse | Texas Constitution | Texas Distilled Spirits Association | Texas history | Texas Lottery | Transitional housing | U.S. Constitution | Voter registration | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.88 ST29A | |
| Session: | 88th R.S. (2023) | |
| Online version: | View report [93 pages File size: 2,963 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Maintaining Election Security: Identify threats to Texas’s election integrity, including those from "Big Tech" and foreign entities. Recommend ways to neutralize such threats. Additionally, evaluate the countywide polling place program in Texas. Make recommendations to address countywide polling issues, such as increased wait times, longer travel distances, supply shortages, and reporting irregularities. Evaluate current laws that prohibit political subdivisions and public school districts from using government resources for illegal electioneering. Make recommendations to strengthen these laws and put a stop to illegal electioneering. | |
| 2. | Social Media & Protecting Children: Study the impact of social media use on children. Review current mechanisms in place to protect minors online. Monitor the implementation of HB 18, 88th R.S., relating to the protection of minors from harmful, deceptive, or unfair trade practices in connection with the use of certain digital services and electronic devices, including the use and transfer of electronic devices to students by a public school. Make policy recommendations to further protect Texas children online. | |
| 3. | Protecting Texas Land and Assets: Evaluate strategic land and asset acquisitions in Texas by foreign entities that threaten the safety and security of the United States. Further, evaluate large-scale purchases of single-family homes by domestic entities and its impact on housing affordability for Texas families. Make recommendations to ensure Texans are secure from foreign threats and homes are affordable in our state. | |
| 4. | Responsible Investing: Study the impact of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors on our state’s public pensions, with a focus on proxy voting services. Make recommendations to ensure our state’s pension systems vote and invest in accordance with their fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Additionally, monitor the implementation of SB 13, 87th R.S., relating to state contracts with and investments in certain companies that boycott energy companies. Specifically, examine how a company is removed from the list of companies that boycott energy companies when the company ceases to boycott energy companies. Report on how frequently the list maintained by the comptroller is updated and make recommendations to ensure an ongoing accurate list. | |
| 5. | Banning Delta 8 and 9: Examine the sale of intoxicating hemp products in Texas. Make recommendations to further regulate the sale of these products, and suggest legislation to stop retailers who market these products to children. | |
| 6. | Impeachment Reform: Evaluate the constitutional and statutory impeachment procedures in our state. Make recommendations to ensure a fair and transparent process. | |
| 7. | Runoff Elections: Study the prerequisites, timing, and efficiency of runoff elections. Make recommendations to increase the efficiency and lower the costs of runoff elections. Examine the 50% vote threshold to avoid a runoff, particularly when four or more candidates are running for the same office. Report whether the vote percentage threshold should be lowered in some instances. | |
| 8. | Lottery: Study "lottery courier services," which allow their clients to purchase lottery tickets over the internet. Report on the number of couriers and the magnitude of sales from such services in Texas. Determine whether courier services are operating legally in Texas and whether a change in law is needed to respond to technological advancements to protect children in our state and to maintain original legislative intent. Recommend legislation to clarify Texas’s laws regarding online lottery sales. | |
| 9. | Unmasking Protestors: Study the use of face coverings and hoods designed to conceal the identity of those bent on committing crimes at protests. Recommend legislation to stop the chaos and destruction by those who attempt to commit crimes while concealing their identity during public gatherings. | |
| 10. | Stop Noncitizen Voting: Evaluate the current safeguards in place to prevent noncitizens from voting in elections. Recommend legislation to facilitate the removal of noncitizen voters from the voter rolls as well as legislation to prevent noncitizens from registering to vote in Texas. | |
| 11. | Beverages with THC: Evaluate Texas laws and regulations concerning THC beverage manufacturing and delivery. Report on the current regulations and safeguards Texas may or may not have in place for drinks with any amount of THC. Recommend legislation to protect Texas consumers. | |
| 12. | Public Trust in Government: Examine the current state of accountability, ethics, and transparency in local government. Recommend ways to bolster public trust in local government by strengthening the Public Information Act and Open Meetings Act. | |
| 13. | Addressing Homelessness: Study programs that address the homelessness crisis in Texas. Specifically, review programs like Haven for Hope and determine whether such programs could be a model throughout our state. Propose legislation to address the root causes of homelessness by expanding successful programs for cities of all sizes. | |
| 14. | Election Audit Reports: Evaluate the Secretary of State’s election audit reports. Make recommendations to secure our elections and ensure counties follow the law. | |
| 15. | Monitoring: Monitor the implementation of legislation addressed by the Senate Committee on State Affairs passed by the 88th Legislature. Specifically, evaluate the impact of SB 2284, 88th R.S. relating to the sale of distilled spirits to ultimate consumers by the holder of a distiller's and rectifier's permit. Report whether the increased sale of distilled spirits has had a positive impact on economic development and public safety in this industry. | |
| Supporting documents | ||
| Committee: | House Elections | |
| Title: | Committee meeting testimony, May 11, 2022 | |
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| Session: | 87th R.S. (2021) | |
| Online version: | View document [6 pages File size: 101 kb] | |
| Committee: | Senate Election Security, Select | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Early voting | Election administration | Election fraud | Election laws | Election Systems & Software | Electoral College | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.85 EL25ss | |
| Session: | 85th R.S. (2017) | |
| Online version: | View report [22 pages] | |
| Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
| 1. | In light of recent election irregularities in Texas, review voting security protocols as well as the responsibilities and duties of members of the Electoral College. Specifically, examine the use of electronic voting machines and paper ballots, voting fraud and disenfranchisement occurring inside nursing homes and assisted living facilities, outside interference and manipulation of elections, and the voting requirements of presidential electors. Make recommendations to safeguard the integrity of elections, ensure the confidentiality and security of voting records, and ensure the will of the people is reflected through their ballot and carried out through their presidential electors. | |
| Committee: | House Elections | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Early voting | Election administration | Election dates | Election residency requirements | Elections | Military personnel | Secretary of State, Texas | University students | Unopposed elections | Voter registration | Voting by mail | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.83 EL25he | |
| Session: | 82nd R.S. (2011) | |
| Online version: | View report [29 pages] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Examine the benefits and risks of using mobile voting stations in Texas. | |
| 2. | Examine ways to more clearly define a residence address for voter registration purposes, giving special consideration to college-age students. | |
| 3. | Monitor the implementation and impact of the MOVE Act on the state and on municipalities. Make legislative recommendations, as needed, to ensure a smooth implementation of the law. (Joint with the House Committee on Defense & Veterans' Affairs) | |
| 4. | Monitor the agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction and the implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 82nd Legislature. | |
| Committee: | House Elections | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | House Committee on Elections, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2010 : a report to the House of Representatives, 82nd Texas Legislature | |
| Subjects: | Campaign finance reform | Election administration | Election fraud | Judicial campaign contributions | Military personnel | Provisional ballots | Supreme Court arguments and decisions, U.S. | Voter identification | Voter turnout | Voting by mail | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.81 El25he | |
| Session: | 81st R.S. (2009) | |
| Online version: | View report [36 pages File size: 736 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study ways the state can enhance military and overseas voters' ability to obtain and return balloting materials and reduce burdens on those voters' exercise of their right to vote. Joint Interim Charge with House Committee on Defense and Veterans' Affairs | |
| 2. | Examine the use of central polling places and compare voter turnout and the number of rejected provisional ballots in counties that use central polling places with similar counties that do not. | |
| 3. | Examine the prevalence of fraud in Texas elections. Study new laws in other states regarding voter identification and recommend statutory changes necessary to ensure that only eligible voters can vote in Texas elections. | |
| 4. | Review the Texas campaign finance law in judicial races in light of the recent United States Supreme Court decision Caperton v. Massey. Joint Interim Charge with House Committee on Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence | |
| 5. | Monitor the agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction. | |
| Committee: | House Elections | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Election administration | Election fraud | Email | Lobbyists | Political advertising | Provisional ballots | State purchasing | Voter identification | Voter registration | Voting by mail | Voting systems | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.80 EL25he | |
| Session: | 80th R.S. (2007) | |
| Online version: | View report [161 pages File size: 19,242 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study the general issue of electronic voting technology, including the issues of general benefits and risks, security and accuracy, paper trails, etc. | |
| 2. | Examine the prevalence of fraud in Texas elections, considering prosecution rates and measures for prevention. Study new laws in other states regarding voter identification, and recommend statutory changes necessary to ensure that only eligible voters can vote in Texas elections. Specifically study the Texas mail-in ballot system, the provisional voting system, and the various processes for purging voter lists of ineligible voters. | |
| 3. | Monitor the continued implementation of the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002 by the Office of the Secretary of State, specifically including the implementation of the Texas Election Administration Management system to maintain voter registration records, administer elections, and execute and report election results. | |
| 4. | Study poll worker recruitment and training in Texas, and suggest possible statutory improvements. | |
| 5. | Monitor which counties are chosen by the Office of the Secretary of State for the new super precinct pilot program, and observe their progress. | |
| 6. | Study the exemption in the Texas lobby contingent fee ban, which currently permits contingent fees and does not require lobby registration, for influencing the purchasing of goods and services by a state agency. Consider whether this exemption should be amended or repealed. | |
| 7. | Research the current Texas law prohibiting the use of public resources for political advertising, and determine whether the law needs to be amended to clarify that publicly funded e-mail systems may not be used for political advertising. | |
| 8. | Monitor the agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction. | |
| Committee: | Senate State Affairs | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Interim report to the 79th Legislature | |
| Subjects: | Border health | Damage award caps | Election administration | Election laws | Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 | Employees Retirement System of Texas | Health insurance | Liability insurance | Managed care | Medical liability insurance | Medically uninsured | Nursing homes | Patients' rights | Quality of care | Rural health care | State employee benefits | State mandated health insurance | Teacher health insurance | Teacher Retirement System of Texas | Tort reform | Voter registration | Voting systems | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.78 St29a | |
| Session: | 78th R.S. (2003) | |
| Online version: | View report [0 pages] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study the implementation of changes made to the state group health insurance plans and identify additional cost-saving measures. Study the feasibility and practicality of offering health reimbursement accounts as an alternate health insurance plan for those insured in ERS, TRS, and university plans. Provide recommendations regarding whether the current method of administering these programs is in the best interest of the State of Texas and the various insured populations, or whether such programs might be more efficiently administered in another fashion. | |
| 2. | Monitor the implementation of HB 1549, 78th R.S., the Federal Help America Vote Act of 2002, to assure that Texas meets the criteria to secure the proposed federal funding. Make recommendations for statutory changes required to implement federal legislation and improve the efficiency of the process. | |
| 3. | Study the implementation of SB 10, 78th R.S., and SB 541, 78th R.S., and make recommendations, as needed, to make health insurance more accessible, and affordable for all Texans. | |
| 4. | Study the April 2003 United States Supreme Court decision in Kentucky Association of Health Plans v. Miller to determine its impact on Texas laws regulating health insurance plans under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and make recommendations to changes in state law to conform with recent federal court decisions. | |
| 5. | Study the reimbursement methodology of health care plans operating in Texas for out-of-network claims, specifically focusing upon the reimbursement of usual and customary charges, and make recommendations on how to improve their effectiveness. The study and recommendations should encompass all plans, including those participating in Texas Medicaid managed care program and should consider federal and state laws as well as Health & Human Services Commission rules relating to the reimbursement of out-of-network claims. | |
| 6. | Study the implementation of HB 4, 78th R.S., and Proposition 12 in achieving lower medical malpractice rates and providing more access to affordable health care. Monitor and report on trends in medical malpractice insurance rates and the effect of tort reform on access to health care and provider shortages in certain regions, particularly along the Border. | |
| 7. | Study and report on the affordability, reasonableness, and impact of mandatory liability insurance on the nursing home industry. Assess and report on the effects of the admissibility of quality reports. | |
| Committee: | House Elections | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | House Committee on Elections, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2002 : a report to the House of Representatives, 78th Texas Legislature. | |
| Subjects: | Campaign finance reform | Election administration | Elections | Vote recounts | Voter registration | Voter turnout | Voting by mail | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.77 el25he | |
| Session: | 77th R.S. (2001) | |
| Online version: | View report [108 pages File size: 4,785 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Examine ways to improve the recruitment, retention and education of election day workers. | |
| 2. | Reassess the procedures used for counting ballots when an error in tabulation is made by an elections' administrator or equipment. | |
| 3. | Review the Election Code, Chapter 254, Political Reporting. Assess whether reorganization and revision of the Chapter would improve the Chapter's ease of use, consistency, compliance and effectiveness of purpose. | |
| 4. | Consider ways to increase voter participation and the efficiency of the state's election processes. | |
| 5. | Actively monitor the agency programs under the committee's oversight jurisdiction. | |
| 6. | Consider the feasibility of centralizing the conduct of elections at the county level of government, designation of permanent county polling locations to reduce voter confusion, and moving filing deadlines for local elections to encourage joint elections. | |
| 7. | Study the implications to Texas electoral system of suspension of Saturday mail delivery by U.S. Postal Service. | |
| Committee: | House Elections | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Report of the Committee on Elections, Texas House of Representatives, 64th Legislature. | |
| Subjects: | Election administration | Election laws | Primary elections | Punch-card ballots | Secretary of State, Texas | Statutory revision | Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Voting systems | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.64 el25 | |
| Session: | 64th R.S. (1975) | |
| Online version: | View report [323 pages File size: 14,552 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Review the Texas Election Code and Article VI of the Texas Constitution to identify sections which unclear, invalid or outdated. Make recommendations for improving state election laws. * | |
| 2. | Study the use of electronic voting systems; review problems with punch card systems, including management failures, technical difficulties, and ballots with unclear or unreadable markings. Assess the adequacy of provisions to prevent election fraud. * | |
| 3. | Study proposals to streamline the local election process by creating a system of county election administrators. * | |
| 4. | Recommend provisions for inclusion in a presidential preference primary election system. * | |
| 5. | Review the Secretary of State's request for appropriations above the level recommended by the Legislative Budget Board. * | |
| 6. | Study the impact of the federal Voting Rights Act on Texas and its political subdivisions. * | |
| Supporting documents | ||
| Committee: | House Elections | |
| Title: | Index | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Minutes | |
| Library Call Number: | L1801.9 EL25HE 63 | |
| Session: | 64th R.S. (1975) | |
| Online version: | View document [9 pages] | |
| Committee: | House Prohibition Amendment Election held July 22, 1911, Investigate | |
| Title: | Part I | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Journal. | |
| Subjects: | Bribery | Election administration | Election fraud | Election laws | Prohibition | | |
| Library Call Number: | LAW-TEX 32ND LEG. 1ST C.S. 1911 V.2 | |
| Session: | 32nd R.S. (1911) | |
| Online version: | View report [300 pages File size: 19,520 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Investigate and determine and report to the House whether there were any poll taxes illegally paid or receipts or exemption certificates illegally issued within this State, and, if so, how and by whom. | |
| 2. | Investigate and determine and report to the House all violations and evasions of the election laws of this State, including the method and manner, and by whom. | |
| 3. | Investigate and determine and report to the House whether money was corruptly and unlawfully used to influence the result of the election held July 22, 1911, and if so, how and by whom. | |
| 4. | Investigate and determine and report to the House the amount of money used to influence the result of said election; the amount spent by a State, county, precinct headquarters or organization; the parties involved in the transaction; and how the money was used. | |
| 5. | Investigate and determine whether or not a conspiracy or agreement was entered into by and between any persons or corporations to corrupt the electorate and debauch the ballot box. | |
| 6. | Investigate all the charges heretofore referred to in the preamble of this resolution in so far as such investigation will elicit information which will enable the Legislature to amend and strengthen the present laws and pass new laws to detect and punish fraud, and preserve the purity of the ballot box. | |
| 7. | Investigate whether there exists in this State an organization of any kind furnishing or expending money to improperly influence elections or legislation such as would contravene sound public policy, and what legislation may be necessary to remedy such evils. | |
| Committee: | House Prohibition Amendment Election held July 22, 1911, Investigate | |
| Title: | Part II | |
| Subjects: | Bribery | Election administration | Election fraud | Election laws | Prohibition | | |
| Library Call Number: | LAW-TEX 32ND LEG. 1ST C.S. 1911 V.2 | |
| Session: | 32nd R.S. (1911) | |
| Online version: | View report [320 pages File size: 21,253 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Investigate and determine and report to the House whether there were any poll taxes illegally paid or receipts or exemption certificates illegally issued within this State, and, if so, how and by whom. | |
| 2. | Investigate and determine and report to the House all violations and evasions of the election laws of this State, including the method and manner, and by whom. | |
| 3. | Investigate and determine and report to the House whether money was corruptly and unlawfully used to influence the result of the election held July 22, 1911, and if so, how and by whom. | |
| 4. | Investigate and determine and report to the House the amount of money used to influence the result of said election; the amount spent by a State, county, precinct headquarters or organization; the parties involved in the transaction; and how the money was used. | |
| 5. | Investigate and determine whether or not a conspiracy or agreement was entered into by and between any persons or corporations to corrupt the electorate and debauch the ballot box. | |
| 6. | Investigate all the charges heretofore referred to in the preamble of this resolution in so far as such investigation will elicit information which will enable the Legislature to amend and strengthen the present laws and pass new laws to detect and punish fraud, and preserve the purity of the ballot box. | |
| 7. | Investigate whether there exists in this State an organization of any kind furnishing or expending money to improperly influence elections or legislation such as would contravene sound public policy, and what legislation may be necessary to remedy such evils. | |
| Committee: | House Prohibition Amendment Election held July 22, 1911, Investigate | |
| Title: | Part III | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Journal. | |
| Subjects: | Bribery | Election administration | Election fraud | Election laws | Prohibition | | |
| Library Call Number: | LAW-TEX 32ND LEG. 1ST C.S. 1911 V.2 | |
| Session: | 32nd R.S. (1911) | |
| Online version: | View report [224 pages File size: 14,216 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Investigate and determine and report to the House whether there were any poll taxes illegally paid or receipts or exemption certificates illegally issued within this State, and, if so, how and by whom. | |
| 2. | Investigate and determine and report to the House all violations and evasions of the election laws of this State, including the method and manner, and by whom. | |
| 3. | Investigate and determine and report to the House whether money was corruptly and unlawfully used to influence the result of the election held July 22, 1911, and if so, how and by whom. | |
| 4. | Investigate and determine and report to the House the amount of money used to influence the result of said election; the amount spent by a State, county, precinct headquarters or organization; the parties involved in the transaction; and how the money was used. | |
| 5. | Investigate and determine whether or not a conspiracy or agreement was entered into by and between any persons or corporations to corrupt the electorate and debauch the ballot box. | |
| 6. | Investigate all the charges heretofore referred to in the preamble of this resolution in so far as such investigation will elicit information which will enable the Legislature to amend and strengthen the present laws and pass new laws to detect and punish fraud, and preserve the purity of the ballot box. | |
| 7. | Investigate whether there exists in this State an organization of any kind furnishing or expending money to improperly influence elections or legislation such as would contravene sound public policy, and what legislation may be necessary to remedy such evils. | |
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