2025 bills / H.B. 551
H.B. 551 Elected Official Publicity Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
According to the official description, this bill:
- defines terms
- prohibits a public official from making an expenditure from public funds on a billboard or mass communication:
- that contains certain content
- is posted, displayed, or mailed less than 60 days before the date of a caucus, convention, or election at which the public official is a candidate for elective office
- contains exceptions to the prohibition described above for certain types of mass communications
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Every vote
- 9 yes, 0 no, 7 absentHouse Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee: vote to change the bill · 2/28/2025 5:05 PMWho voted how
- 9 yes, 0 no, 7 absentHouse Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee: vote to approve it · 2/28/2025 5:05 PMWho voted how
- 74 yes, 0 no, 1 absentFinal House vote · 3/3/2025 3:10 PM
- 23 yes, 0 no, 6 absentFinal Senate vote · 3/7/2025 5:11 PM