2025 bills / H.B. 231
H.B. 231 Primary Election Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote (stopped here)
- Signed into law
What this bill does
This bill would require a runoff election between the top two finishers in certain primary races when no candidate gets more than 50% of the vote and the leader does not finish at least 10 percentage points ahead of second place. It also sets deadlines, notice rules, and ballot procedures for those runoffs, including for military and overseas voters.
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Official description
- provides that, for certain primary election races, the person who wins the nomination will be determined by conducting a runoff election between the two candidates who received the most votes in the initial primary election if:
- no candidate receives more than 50% of the votes in the race
- the candidate who receives the highest number of votes does not receive at least 10% more of the total votes cast in the race than the candidate who receives the second highest number of votes
- describes deadlines, notice requirements, and procedures relating to a runoff election, including party affiliation deadlines and procedures for a military or overseas voter to cast a ballot in a runoff election
- makes technical and conforming changes
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Every vote
- 9 yes, 4 noHouse Government Operations Committee: vote to approve it · Jan 30, 2025Who voted how
- 50 yes, 20 no, 5 absentFinal House vote · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how