2025 bills / H.B. 351
H.B. 351 Election Day Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote (stopped here)
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill would make the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November a legal holiday called Election Day. It would also specify that Election Day does not require state agencies or workplaces to close.
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Official description
- establishes the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November as a legal holiday called Election Day
- excludes Election Day as a legal holiday that requires a state agency or work-related closure
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 351 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 351 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 4 yes, 3 no, 3 absentHouse Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee: vote, which it did not pass · Feb 10, 2025Who voted how
- 6 yes, 1 no, 3 absentHouse Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 18, 2025Who voted how
- 7 yes, 1 no, 2 absentHouse Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 18, 2025Who voted how
- yes, undefined noHouse vote to change the bill · Feb 26, 2025
- 69 yes, 3 no, 3 absentFinal House vote · Feb 26, 2025Who voted how
- 5 yes, 1 no, 1 absentSenate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee: vote to approve it · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how
Hearings and debates
- Feb 10, 2025 House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee▶ Watch
- Feb 18, 2025 House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee▶ Watch
- Mar 4, 2025 Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee▶ Watch
- 24/2/2025 House floor debate▶ Watch
- 26/2/2025 House floor debate▶ Watch