HB 29

During the 89th Regular Session, the Texas Legislature enacted S.B. 2217, effective September 1, 2025, which would allow a person's voter registration to take effect immediately upon the voter registrar's receipt of certain notices of a voter's change of address if the voter changes residence within the same county as the voter's current registration address. However, according to a recent article in The Texas Tribune , local election officials who attended training presented by the secretary of state's office expressed concerns regarding this new same-day registration process, with one official specifically noting that, because the voter's address would be changed by election workers at the polling location without additional address and mapping verification steps that election officials typically take, there is a