Bill Text: TX HB894 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the acceptance of identification for voters who identify as transgender.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB894 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB894-Introduced.html
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| By: Reynolds | H.B. No. 894 | |
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| relating to the acceptance of identification for voters who | ||
| identify as transgender. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 32, Election Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 32.116 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 32.116. REQUIRED TRAINING RELATED TO ACCEPTING VOTERS | ||
| WHO IDENTIFY AS TRANSGENDER. Each program, standard, or material | ||
| for any training developed under this subchapter must include: | ||
| (1) guidance for election workers to accept photo | ||
| identification that may not align with a person's presenting gender | ||
| expression or identity; and | ||
| (2) information about voters who identify as | ||
| transgender and their historical disenfranchisement. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 63.0101, Election Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: | ||
| (e) An indication of gender on a form of identification | ||
| described by this section that does not align with the gender | ||
| expression or identity of the person seeking to vote does not | ||
| invalidate the form of identification for the purpose of accepting | ||
| a voter for voting. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
