TX HB 5138

died on adjournment

Relating to the duty of the attorney general to prosecute criminal offenses prescribed by the election laws of this state.

Texas · 89th Legislature (2025 Regular Session) · lower

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Quick answers

Did TX HB 5138 pass?

No. TX HB 5138 died when the 89th Legislature (2025 Regular Session) adjourned without final action on it. Bills that die this way are sometimes reintroduced in a later session. Latest recorded action (2025-05-29): Senate appoints conferees-reported

What is TX HB 5138 about?

TX HB 5138 is a bill in the 89th Legislature (2025 Regular Session) titled “Relating to the duty of the attorney general to prosecute criminal offenses prescribed by the election laws of this state.”.

Who sponsors TX HB 5138?

Hughes, Hull, Metcalf and 3 others are the primary sponsors of TX HB 5138, joined by 32 cosponsors.

Introduced: 2025-04-07
Latest action: 2025-05-29 — Senate appoints conferees-reported
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

2025-05-29
Senate appoints conferees-reported
2025-05-29
Senate grants request for conf comm-reported
2025-05-29
Senate appoints conferees
2025-05-29
Senate grants request for conference comm.
2025-05-29
House appoints conferees-reported
2025-05-29
House requests conference committee-reported
2025-05-29
House refuses to concur-reported
2025-05-29
House appoints conferees
2025-05-29
House requests conference committee
2025-05-29
House refuses to concur in Senate amendments
2025-05-28
Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
2025-05-28
Senate Amendments distributed
2025-05-28
Senate passage as amended reported
amendment-passage
2025-05-28
Record vote
2025-05-28
Passed
passage
2025-05-28
Read 3rd time
reading-3
2025-05-28
Record vote
2025-05-28
Rules suspended-Regular order of business
2025-05-28
Not again placed on intent calendar
2025-05-27
Record vote
2025-05-27
Passed to 3rd reading
2025-05-27
Record vote
2025-05-27
Amendment fails of adoption
amendment-failure
2025-05-27
Amendment(s) offered
amendment-introduction
2025-05-27
Read 2nd time
reading-2
2025-05-27
Record vote
2025-05-27
Rules suspended-Regular order of business
2025-05-27
Co-sponsor authorized
2025-05-26
Placed on intent calendar
2025-05-26
Co-sponsor authorized
2025-05-25
Committee report printed and distributed
2025-05-25
Reported favorably as substituted
committee-passage-favorable
2025-05-22
Vote taken in committee
2025-05-22
Considered in public hearing
2025-05-15
Left pending in committee
2025-05-15
Testimony taken in committee
2025-05-15
Considered in public hearing
2025-05-15
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
2025-05-13
Referred to State Affairs
referral-committee
2025-05-13
Read first time
introduction,reading-1
2025-05-12
Received from the House
introduction
2025-05-09
Reported engrossed
2025-05-09
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-09
Record vote
2025-05-09
Passed
passage
2025-05-09
Read 3rd time
reading-3
2025-05-08
Record vote
2025-05-08
Passed to engrossment as amended
amendment-passage
2025-05-08
Amended
amendment-passage
2025-05-08
Read 2nd time
reading-2
2025-05-08
Placed on Major State Calendar
2025-05-06
Considered in Calendars
2025-05-06
Committee report sent to Calendars
2025-05-06
Committee report distributed
2025-05-06
Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
filing
2025-04-30
Reported favorably as substituted
committee-passage-favorable
2025-04-30
Committee substitute considered in committee
substitution
2025-04-30
Considered in public hearing
2025-04-23
Left pending in committee
2025-04-23
Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
2025-04-23
Considered in public hearing
2025-04-07
Referred to State Affairs
referral-committee
2025-04-07
Read first time
introduction,reading-1
2025-03-13
Filed
filing

Versions

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Documents

Votes

passage
2025-05-08 · pass · 85-59
Member-level votes (152)
- Alders: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Barry: yes
- Bell, C.: yes
- Bell, K.: yes
- Bonnen: yes
- Buckley: yes
- Bumgarner: yes
- Button: yes
- Capriglione: yes
- Cook: yes
- Craddick: yes
- Cunningham: yes
- Curry: yes
- Darby: yes
- Dean: yes
- DeAyala: yes
- Dorazio: yes
- Dyson: yes
- Fairly: yes
- Frank: yes
- Gates: yes
- Gerdes: yes
- Geren: yes
- Guillen: yes
- Harless: yes
- Harris: yes
- Harris Davila: yes
- Harrison: yes
- Hayes: yes
- Hefner: yes
- Hickland: yes
- Holt: yes
- Hopper: yes
- Hull: yes
- Hunter: yes
- Isaac: yes
- Kerwin: yes
- King: yes
- Kitzman: yes
- LaHood: yes
- Landgraf: yes
- Leach: yes
- Leo Wilson: yes
- Little: yes
- Lopez, J.: yes
- Louderback: yes
- Lowe: yes
- Lujan: yes
- Luther: yes
- McLaughlin: yes
- McQueeney: yes
- Metcalf: yes
- Meyer: yes
- Money: yes
- Morgan: yes
- Muñoz: yes
- Noble: yes
- Olcott: yes
- Oliverson: yes
- Orr: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Paul: yes
- Pierson: yes
- Raymond: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Schatzline: yes
- Schofield: yes
- Schoolcraft: yes
- Shaheen: yes
- Shofner: yes
- Slawson: yes
- Smithee: yes
- Spiller: yes
- Swanson: yes
- Tepper: yes
- Tinderholt: yes
- Toth: yes
- Troxclair: yes
- VanDeaver: yes
- Vasut: yes
- Villalobos: yes
- Virdell: yes
- Wharton: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Allen: no
- Anchía: no
- Bernal: no
- Bhojani: no
- Bowers: no
- Bryant: no
- Bucy: no
- Campos: no
- Canales: no
- Cole: no
- Collier: no
- Cortez: no
- Davis, A.: no
- Davis, Y.: no
- Dutton: no
- Flores: no
- Gámez: no
- Garcia, J.: no
- Garcia, L.: no
- Garcia Hernandez: no
- Gervin-Hawkins: no
- González, J.: no
- González, M.: no
- Goodwin: no
- Guerra: no
- Hernandez: no
- Hinojosa: no
- Howard: no
- Johnson: no
- Jones, J.: no
- Jones, V.: no
- Lalani: no
- Lopez, R.: no
- Manuel: no
- Martinez: no
- Fischer: no
- Meza: no
- Morales, C.: no
- Morales, E.: no
- Morales Shaw: no
- Ordaz: no
- Perez, M.: no
- Perez, V.: no
- Phelan: no
- Plesa: no
- Reynolds: no
- Rodríguez Ramos: no
- Romero: no
- Rose: no
- Rosenthal: no
- Simmons: no
- Talarico: no
- Thompson: no
- Turner: no
- Vo: no
- Walle: no
- Ward Johnson: no
- Wu: no
- Zwiener: no
- Present: not voting
- Mr. Speaker(C): not voting
- Absent: absent
- Cain: absent
- Longori: absent
- Lambert: absent
- Lozano: absent
- Mood: absent
passage
2025-05-09 · pass · 87-58
Member-level votes (152)
- Alders: yes
- Allen: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Barry: yes
- Bell, C.: yes
- Bell, K.: yes
- Bonnen: yes
- Buckley: yes
- Bumgarner: yes
- Button: yes
- Capriglione: yes
- Cook: yes
- Craddick: yes
- Cunningham: yes
- Curry: yes
- Darby: yes
- Dean: yes
- DeAyala: yes
- Dorazio: yes
- Dyson: yes
- Fairly: yes
- Frank: yes
- Gates: yes
- Gerdes: yes
- Geren: yes
- Guillen: yes
- Harless: yes
- Harris(C): yes
- Harris Davila: yes
- Harrison: yes
- Hayes: yes
- Hefner: yes
- Hickland: yes
- Holt: yes
- Hopper: yes
- Hull: yes
- Hunter: yes
- Isaac: yes
- Kerwin: yes
- King: yes
- Kitzman: yes
- LaHood: yes
- Lambert: yes
- Landgraf: yes
- Leach: yes
- Leo Wilson: yes
- Little: yes
- Lopez, J.: yes
- Louderback: yes
- Lowe: yes
- Lujan: yes
- Luther: yes
- McLaughlin: yes
- McQueeney: yes
- Metcalf: yes
- Meyer: yes
- Money: yes
- Morgan: yes
- Noble: yes
- Olcott: yes
- Oliverson: yes
- Orr: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Paul: yes
- Phelan: yes
- Pierson: yes
- Raymond: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Schatzline: yes
- Schofield: yes
- Schoolcraft: yes
- Shaheen: yes
- Shofner: yes
- Slawson: yes
- Smithee: yes
- Spiller: yes
- Swanson: yes
- Tepper: yes
- Tinderholt: yes
- Toth: yes
- Troxclair: yes
- VanDeaver: yes
- Vasut: yes
- Villalobos: yes
- Virdell: yes
- Wharton: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Anchía: no
- Bernal: no
- Bhojani: no
- Bowers: no
- Bryant: no
- Bucy: no
- Campos: no
- Canales: no
- Cole: no
- Collier: no
- Cortez: no
- Davis, A.: no
- Davis, Y.: no
- Dutton: no
- Flores: no
- Gámez: no
- Garcia, J.: no
- Garcia, L.: no
- Garcia Hernandez: no
- Gervin-Hawkins: no
- González, J.: no
- González, M.: no
- Goodwin: no
- Guerra: no
- Hernandez: no
- Hinojosa: no
- Howard: no
- Johnson: no
- Jones, J.: no
- Jones, V.: no
- Lalani: no
- Longoria: no
- Lopez, R.: no
- Martinez: no
- Fischer: no
- Meza: no
- Moody: no
- Morales, C.: no
- Morales, E.: no
- Morales Shaw: no
- Muñoz: no
- Ordaz: no
- Perez, M.: no
- Perez, V.: no
- Plesa: no
- Reynolds: no
- Rodríguez Ramos: no
- Romero: no
- Rosenthal: no
- Simmons: no
- Talarico: no
- Thompson: no
- Turner: no
- Vo: no
- Walle: no
- Ward Johnson: no
- Wu: no
- Zwiener: no
- Present: not voting
- Mr. Speaker: not voting
- Absent: absent
- Lozano: absent
- Manuel: absent
- Ros: absent
- Cain: absent
passage
2025-05-27 · pass · 19-12
Member-level votes (31)
- Bettencourt: yes
- Birdwell: yes
- Campbell: yes
- Creighton: yes
- Flores: yes
- Hagenbuch: yes
- Hall: yes
- Hancock: yes
- A. Hinojosa: yes
- Huffman: yes
- Hughes: yes
- King: yes
- Kolkhorst: yes
- Middleton: yes
- Parker: yes
- Paxton: yes
- Perry: yes
- Schwertner: yes
- Sparks: yes
- Alvarado: no
- Blanco: no
- Cook: no
- Eckhardt: no
- Gutierrez: no
- J. Hinojosa: no
- Johnson: no
- Menéndez: no
- Miles: no
- Nichols: no
- West: no
- Zaffirini: no
other
2025-05-27 · fail · 11-20
Member-level votes (31)
- Alvarado: yes
- Blanco: yes
- Cook: yes
- Eckhardt: yes
- Gutierrez: yes
- J. Hinojosa: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Menéndez: yes
- Miles: yes
- West: yes
- Zaffirini: yes
- Bettencourt: no
- Birdwell: no
- Campbell: no
- Creighton: no
- Flores: no
- Hagenbuch: no
- Hall: no
- Hancock: no
- A. Hinojosa: no
- Huffman: no
- Hughes: no
- King: no
- Kolkhorst: no
- Middleton: no
- Nichols: no
- Parker: no
- Paxton: no
- Perry: no
- Schwertner: no
- Sparks: no
passage
2025-05-28 · pass · 19-12
Member-level votes (31)
- Bettencourt: yes
- Birdwell: yes
- Campbell: yes
- Creighton: yes
- Flores: yes
- Hagenbuch: yes
- Hall: yes
- Hancock: yes
- A. Hinojosa: yes
- Huffman: yes
- Hughes: yes
- King: yes
- Kolkhorst: yes
- Middleton: yes
- Parker: yes
- Paxton: yes
- Perry: yes
- Schwertner: yes
- Sparks: yes
- Alvarado: no
- Blanco: no
- Cook: no
- Eckhardt: no
- Gutierrez: no
- J. Hinojosa: no
- Johnson: no
- Menéndez: no
- Miles: no
- Nichols: no
- West: no
- Zaffirini: no

Related bills

Companion bill: HB 4957
Companion bill: SB 1026

Official source

ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/house_bills/HB05100_HB05199/HB 5138.xml

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