2025 bills / H.B. 292
H.B. 292 Political Signs Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote (stopped here)
- Signed into law
What this bill does
The bill would prohibit attaching political signs to utility poles, light poles, electric utility boxes, or road signs, and would ban attaching objects to a political sign to block, conceal, or misrepresent its message. Violations would be a crime, though government employees doing their duties and people who remove such signs or objects would not be committed an offense; it also shrinks the size of exempt lawn signs that would otherwise need campaign finance disclosure.
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Official description
- defines a term
- for a political advertisement that is required to disclose certain campaign finance information, reduces the size dimensions of a lawn sign that is exempt from the disclosure requirement
- prohibits a person from:
- attaching a political sign to a utility pole, light pole, an electric utility box, or any road sign; or
- affixing an object to a political sign to block, conceal, or misrepresent the message or image on a political sign
- creates a criminal offense for a person who engages in the conduct described above
- creates an exception to the criminal offense described above for a government employee who removes a political sign in accordance with the government employee's duties
- specifies that a person does not commit a criminal offense related to a political sign if the person:
- removes an object described above
- removes a lawn sign described above; or
- removes a political sign attached to a utility pole, light pole, an electric utility box, or road sign
- makes technical and conforming changes
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Every vote
- 11 yes, 0 no, 2 absentHouse Government Operations Committee: vote to change the bill · 2/7/2025 4:52 PMWho voted how
- 11 yes, 0 no, 2 absentHouse Government Operations Committee: vote to approve it · 2/7/2025 4:53 PMWho voted how
- 69 yes, 0 no, 6 absentFinal House vote · 2/18/2025 2:40 PMWho voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee: vote to approve it · 2/27/2025 4:27 PMWho voted how