TX House on Recorded Votes

Texas House changes rules on recorded votes

The Texas House changed its rules today to make it easier for a legislator to request a recorded vote on a bill and to further clarify lawmakers' individual positions on the final passage of a bill.

Those House rules were approved in a non-recorded, voice vote.

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Under the new House rules, it will take only one lawmaker to request that individual votes be recorded on any bill or amendment. Currently it takes three.

Another House change specifies that a voice vote on final passage of a bill is automatically recorded as "yes" for everyone in the chamber, unless a lawmaker states in the House journal his or her vote against the measure.

Those opposition votes are not immediately known to the public. Lawmakers have a number of hours to make those declarations.

Texas is one of 10 states that doesn't require a recorded, or roll-call, vote on final passage of every bill in either legislative chamber.

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