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Dismisses Election Contest in Texas
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Dismisses Election Contest in Texas

IntroducedApril 9, 2025
Passed House8 months ago
Intro
House
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
CongressElections, voting, political campaign regulationTexasCongressional elections
Why This Matters

This resolution dismisses an election contest related to the Representative from Texas's Twenty-eighth Congressional District due to a late filing.

If you live in the Twenty-eighth Congressional District of Texas, the election contest is officially dismissed and will not change your representative.
Who this affects
voters · residents · Twenty-eighth Congressional District
What does this resolution do?
  1. 1This resolution ends a dispute over the election results for a Texas congressional seat.
  2. 2The contest was dismissed because it was filed too late according to House rules.
  3. 3This decision affects the Twenty-eighth Congressional District of Texas.
  4. 4No changes to the current officeholder or election results occur due to this resolution.
  5. 5The resolution is a formal acknowledgment of the dismissal rather than a legal change.
Read the detailed summary

This resolution dismisses (i. e., concludes) the election contest relating to the office of Representative from the 28th Congressional District of Texas. As background, the Federal Contested Election Act provides for the House of Representatives to resolve contested general elections. Generally, a contested election entails reexamining election conduct following the jurisdiction's certification of election results.

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Resolutions must be adopted by the chamber that introduced them.
Intro
House
IntroducedApr 9, 2025
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HouseDec 9, 2025
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