Bill Commons

TX HB 4

enacted

Relating to the composition of the districts for the election of members of the United States House of Representatives from the State of Texas.

Texas · 892 · lower

Introduced
2025-08-18
Status date
Latest action
2025-09-05 — Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Bill type
bill
Last updated

Subjects

Sponsors

  • Kingprimary
  • Hunterprimary
  • Guillenprimary
  • Spillerprimary
  • Piersonprimary
  • Vasutprimary
  • Orrcosponsor
  • Oliversoncosponsor
  • Olcottcosponsor
  • Noblecosponsor
  • Morgancosponsor
  • Moneycosponsor
  • Meyercosponsor
  • Metcalfcosponsor
  • McQueeneycosponsor
  • McLaughlincosponsor
  • Luthercosponsor
  • Lujancosponsor
  • Lozanocosponsor
  • Lowecosponsor
  • Louderbackcosponsor
  • Lopez, Janiecosponsor
  • Littlecosponsor
  • Leo Wilsoncosponsor
  • Landgrafcosponsor
  • Lambertcosponsor
  • LaHoodcosponsor
  • Kitzmancosponsor
  • Kingcosponsor
  • Kerwincosponsor
  • Isaaccosponsor
  • Hullcosponsor
  • Hoppercosponsor
  • Holtcosponsor
  • Hicklandcosponsor
  • Hefnercosponsor
  • Hayescosponsor
  • Harris Davilacosponsor
  • Harriscosponsor
  • Harlesscosponsor
  • Gerencosponsor
  • Gerdescosponsor
  • Gatescosponsor
  • Frankcosponsor
  • Fairlycosponsor
  • Dysoncosponsor
  • Doraziocosponsor
  • Deancosponsor
  • Currycosponsor
  • Cunninghamcosponsor
  • Craddickcosponsor
  • Cookcosponsor
  • Caincosponsor
  • Buttoncosponsor
  • Bumgarnercosponsor
  • Buckleycosponsor
  • Bonnencosponsor
  • Bell, Keithcosponsor
  • Bell, Cecilcosponsor
  • Barrycosponsor
  • Ashbycosponsor
  • Alderscosponsor
  • Schwertnercosponsor
  • Paxtoncosponsor
  • Hinojosa, Adamcosponsor
  • Birdwellcosponsor
  • Wilsoncosponsor
  • Whartoncosponsor
  • Virdellcosponsor
  • Villaloboscosponsor
  • VanDeavercosponsor
  • Troxclaircosponsor
  • Tothcosponsor
  • Tinderholtcosponsor
  • Teppercosponsor
  • Swansoncosponsor
  • Shofnercosponsor
  • Slawsoncosponsor
  • Shaheencosponsor
  • Schatzlinecosponsor
  • Richardsoncosponsor
  • Paulcosponsor
  • Pattersoncosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-08-15

    Filed

    filing

  2. 2025-08-18

    Read first time

    introduction,reading-1

  3. 2025-08-18

    Referred to Congressional Redistricting, Select

    referral-committee

  4. 2025-08-18

    Considered in formal meeting

  5. 2025-08-18

    Committee substitute considered in committee

    substitution

  6. 2025-08-18

    Reported favorably as substituted

    committee-passage-favorable

  7. 2025-08-18

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

    filing

  8. 2025-08-18

    Committee report distributed

  9. 2025-08-19

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  10. 2025-08-19

    Considered in Calendars

  11. 2025-08-20

    Placed on Major State Calendar

  12. 2025-08-20

    Read 2nd time

    reading-2

  13. 2025-08-20

    Amendment tabled

    deferral

  14. 2025-08-20

    Record vote

  15. 2025-08-20

    Amendment tabled

    deferral

  16. 2025-08-20

    Record vote

  17. 2025-08-20

    Amendment tabled

    deferral

  18. 2025-08-20

    Record vote

  19. 2025-08-20

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  20. 2025-08-20

    Amendment tabled

    deferral

  21. 2025-08-20

    Record vote

  22. 2025-08-20

    Amendment tabled

    deferral

  23. 2025-08-20

    Record vote

  24. 2025-08-20

    Amendment tabled

    deferral

  25. 2025-08-20

    Record vote

  26. 2025-08-20

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  27. 2025-08-20

    Amendment tabled

    deferral

  28. 2025-08-20

    Record vote

  29. 2025-08-20

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  30. 2025-08-20

    Amendment(s) offered

    amendment-introduction

  31. 2025-08-20

    Point of order withdrawn (amendment)

    withdrawal

  32. 2025-08-20

    Amendment withdrawn

    amendment-withdrawal,withdrawal

  33. 2025-08-20

    Amendment(s) offered

    amendment-introduction

  34. 2025-08-20

    Point of order withdrawn (amendment)

    withdrawal

  35. 2025-08-20

    Amendment withdrawn

    amendment-withdrawal,withdrawal

  36. 2025-08-20

    Amendment(s) offered

    amendment-introduction

  37. 2025-08-20

    Point of order withdrawn (amendment)

    withdrawal

  38. 2025-08-20

    Amendment withdrawn

    amendment-withdrawal,withdrawal

  39. 2025-08-20

    Amendment(s) offered

    amendment-introduction

  40. 2025-08-20

    Point of order sustained (amendment)

  41. 2025-08-20

    Amendment withdrawn

    amendment-withdrawal,withdrawal

  42. 2025-08-20

    Passed to engrossment

  43. 2025-08-20

    Record vote

  44. 2025-08-20

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  45. 2025-08-20

    Reason for vote recorded in Journal

  46. 2025-08-20

    Motion prevails

  47. 2025-08-20

    Record vote

  48. 2025-08-20

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  49. 2025-08-20

    Read 3rd time

    reading-3

  50. 2025-08-20

    Passed

    passage

  51. 2025-08-20

    Record vote

  52. 2025-08-20

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  53. 2025-08-20

    Reason for vote recorded in Journal

  54. 2025-08-20

    Reported engrossed

  55. 2025-08-20

    Received from the House

    introduction

  56. 2025-08-20

    Read first time

    introduction,reading-1

  57. 2025-08-20

    Referred to Congressional Redistricting, Special

    referral-committee

  58. 2025-08-21

    Considered in public hearing

  59. 2025-08-21

    Vote taken in committee

  60. 2025-08-21

    Reported favorably w/o amendments

    committee-passage-favorable

  61. 2025-08-22

    Co-sponsor authorized

  62. 2025-08-22

    Ordered not printed

  63. 2025-08-22

    Record vote

  64. 2025-08-22

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  65. 2025-08-22

    Record vote

  66. 2025-08-22

    Read 2nd time

    reading-2

  67. 2025-08-22

    Amendment(s) offered

    amendment-introduction

  68. 2025-08-22

    Amendment fails of adoption

    amendment-failure

  69. 2025-08-22

    Record vote

  70. 2025-08-22

    Passed to 3rd reading

  71. 2025-08-22

    Record vote

  72. 2025-08-22

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  73. 2025-08-22

    Record vote

  74. 2025-08-22

    Read 3rd time

    reading-3

  75. 2025-08-23

    Previous question ordered

  76. 2025-08-23

    Record vote

  77. 2025-08-23

    Passed

    passage

  78. 2025-08-23

    Record vote

  79. 2025-08-23

    Reason for vote recorded in Journal

  80. 2025-08-23

    Reason for vote recorded in Journal

  81. 2025-08-23

    Reason for vote recorded in Journal

  82. 2025-08-23

    Reason for vote recorded in Journal

  83. 2025-08-23

    Reason for vote recorded in Journal

  84. 2025-08-23

    Reason for vote recorded in Journal

  85. 2025-08-23

    Reason for vote recorded in Journal

  86. 2025-08-23

    Reason for vote recorded in Journal

  87. 2025-08-25

    Senate passage reported

    passage

  88. 2025-08-25

    Reported enrolled

    enrolled

  89. 2025-08-25

    Signed in the House

    passage

  90. 2025-08-26

    Signed in the Senate

    passage

  91. 2025-08-27

    Sent to the Governor

    executive-receipt

  92. 2025-08-29

    Signed by the Governor

    executive-signature

  93. 2025-09-05

    Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    became-law

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • passage

    2025-08-20 · pass · 88-52

    Member-level votes (150)
    • Mr. Speaker(C): yes
    • Alders: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Barry: yes
    • Bell, C.: yes
    • Bell, K.: yes
    • Bonnen: yes
    • Buckley: yes
    • Bumgarner: yes
    • Button: yes
    • Cain: 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
    • Lambert: yes
    • Landgraf: yes
    • Leach: yes
    • Leo Wilson: yes
    • Little: yes
    • Lopez, J.: yes
    • Louderback: yes
    • Lowe: yes
    • Lozano: 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
    • 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
    • Bowers: no
    • Bryant: no
    • Bucy: no
    • Canales: no
    • Cole: no
    • Collier: no
    • Cortez: no
    • Davis, Y.: no
    • Dutton: no
    • Flores: no
    • Gámez: 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, V.: no
    • Lalani: no
    • Longoria: no
    • Lopez, R.: no
    • Manuel: no
    • Martinez: no
    • Fischer: no
    • Meza: no
    • Moody: no
    • Morales, E.: no
    • Morales Shaw: no
    • Muñoz: no
    • Ordaz: no
    • Perez, M.: no
    • Perez, V.: no
    • Plesa: no
    • Raymond: no
    • Reynolds: no
    • Romero: no
    • Rose: no
    • Rosenthal: no
    • Talarico: no
    • Thompson: no
    • Turner: no
    • Walle: no
    • Wu: no
    • Zwiener: no
    • Bhojani: absent
    • Campos: absent
    • Davis, A.: absent
    • Garcia, J.: absent
    • Jones, J.: absent
    • Morales, C.: absent
    • Rodríguez Ramos: absent
    • Simmons: absent
    • Vo: absent
    • Ward Johnson: absent
  • other

    2025-08-20 · fail · 52-84

    Member-level votes (154)
    • Allen: yes
    • Anchía: yes
    • Bernal: yes
    • Bhojani: yes
    • Bowers: yes
    • Bucy: yes
    • Canales: yes
    • Cole: yes
    • Collier: yes
    • Cortez: yes
    • Davis, Y.: yes
    • Dutton: yes
    • Flores: yes
    • Gámez: yes
    • Garcia, L.: yes
    • Garcia Hernandez: yes
    • Gervin-Hawkins: yes
    • González, J.: yes
    • González, M.: yes
    • Goodwin: yes
    • Guerra: yes
    • Hernandez: yes
    • Hinojosa: yes
    • Howard: yes
    • Johnson: yes
    • Jones, V.: yes
    • Lalani: yes
    • Longoria: yes
    • Lopez, R.: yes
    • Manuel: yes
    • Martinez: yes
    • Fischer: yes
    • Meza: yes
    • Moody: yes
    • Morales, E.: yes
    • Morales Shaw: yes
    • Muñoz: yes
    • Ordaz: yes
    • Perez, M.: yes
    • Perez, V.: yes
    • Plesa: yes
    • Raymond: yes
    • Reynolds: yes
    • Romero: yes
    • Rose: yes
    • Rosenthal: yes
    • Talarico: yes
    • Thompson: yes
    • Turner: yes
    • Walle: yes
    • Wu: yes
    • Zwiener: yes
    • Alders: no
    • Ashby: no
    • Barry: no
    • Bell, C.: no
    • Bell, K.: no
    • Bonnen: no
    • Buckley: no
    • Bumgarner: no
    • Button: no
    • Cain: no
    • Capriglione: no
    • Cook: no
    • Craddick: no
    • Cunningham: no
    • Curry: no
    • Darby: no
    • Dean: no
    • DeAyala: no
    • Dorazio: no
    • Dyson: no
    • Frank: no
    • Gates: no
    • Gerdes: no
    • Guillen: no
    • Harless: no
    • Harris: no
    • Harris Davila: no
    • Harrison: no
    • Hayes: no
    • Hefner: no
    • Hickland: no
    • Holt: no
    • Hopper: no
    • Hull: no
    • Hunter: no
    • Isaac: no
    • Kerwin: no
    • King: no
    • Kitzman: no
    • LaHood: no
    • Lambert: no
    • Leach: no
    • Leo Wilson: no
    • Little: no
    • Lopez, J.: no
    • Louderback: no
    • Lowe: no
    • Lozano: no
    • Lujan: no
    • Luther: no
    • McLaughlin: no
    • McQueeney: no
    • Metcalf: no
    • Meyer: no
    • Money: no
    • Morgan: no
    • Noble: no
    • Olcott: no
    • Oliverson: no
    • Orr: no
    • Patterson: no
    • Paul: no
    • Phelan: no
    • Pierson: no
    • Richardson: no
    • Schatzline: no
    • Schofield: no
    • Schoolcraft: no
    • Shaheen: no
    • Shofner: no
    • Slawson: no
    • Smithee: no
    • Spiller: no
    • Swanson: no
    • Tepper: no
    • Tinderholt: no
    • Toth: no
    • Troxclair: no
    • VanDeaver: no
    • Vasut: no
    • Villalobos: no
    • Virdell: no
    • Wharton: no
    • Wilson: no
    • Present: not voting
    • Speaker: not voting
    • Landgraf(C: not voting
    • Bryant: absent
    • Campos: absent
    • Davis, A.: absent
    • Fairly: absent
    • Garcia, J.: absent
    • Geren: absent
    • Jones, J.: absent
    • Morales, C.: absent
    • Rodríguez Ramos: absent
    • Simmons: absent
    • Vo: absent
    • Ward Johnson: absent
    • Landgraf: no
    • Mr. Speaker(C): not voting
    • Geren(C: not voting
  • other

    2025-08-22 · fail · 11-18

    Member-level votes (30)
    • 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
    • A. Hinojosa: no
    • Huffman: no
    • Hughes: no
    • King: no
    • Kolkhorst: no
    • Middleton: no
    • Nichols: no
    • Parker: no
    • Perry: no
    • Schwertner: no
    • Sparks: no
    • Paxton: absent
  • passage

    2025-08-22 · pass · 18-11

    Member-level votes (30)
    • Bettencourt: yes
    • Birdwell: yes
    • Campbell: yes
    • Creighton: yes
    • Flores: yes
    • Hagenbuch: yes
    • Hall: yes
    • A. Hinojosa: yes
    • Huffman: yes
    • Hughes: yes
    • King: yes
    • Kolkhorst: yes
    • Middleton: yes
    • Nichols: yes
    • Parker: 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
    • West: no
    • Zaffirini: no
    • Paxton: absent
  • HB 4 be placed on final passage.

    2025-08-22 · pass · 18-11

    Member-level votes (30)
    • Bettencourt: yes
    • Birdwell: yes
    • Campbell: yes
    • Creighton: yes
    • Flores: yes
    • Hagenbuch: yes
    • Hall: yes
    • A. Hinojosa: yes
    • Huffman: yes
    • Hughes: yes
    • King: yes
    • Kolkhorst: yes
    • Middleton: yes
    • Nichols: yes
    • Parker: 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
    • West: no
    • Zaffirini: no
    • Paxton: absent

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