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TX SB 647

enacted

Relating to the filing or recording of documents or instruments conveying or purporting to convey an interest in real or personal property.

Texas · 89th Legislature (2025 Regular Session) · upper

Quick answers

Did TX SB 647 pass?

Yes. TX SB 647 has been enacted into law as of 2025-06-20. Latest recorded action (2025-06-20): Effective on 9/1/25

What is TX SB 647 about?

TX SB 647 is a bill in the 89th Legislature (2025 Regular Session) titled “Relating to the filing or recording of documents or instruments conveying or purporting to convey an interest in real or personal property.”.

Who sponsors TX SB 647?

Anchía, Button, Longoria and 2 others are the primary sponsors of TX SB 647, joined by 2 cosponsors.

Introduced
2024-12-18
Latest action
2025-06-20 — Effective on 9/1/25
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Anchíaprimary
  • Buttonprimary
  • Longoriaprimary
  • Westprimary
  • Lujanprimary
  • Blancocosponsor
  • Hinojosa, Adamcosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2024-12-18

    Received by the Secretary of the Senate

    filing,introduction

  2. 2024-12-18

    Filed

    filing

  3. 2025-02-03

    Read first time

    introduction,reading-1

  4. 2025-02-03

    Referred to Business & Commerce

    referral-committee

  5. 2025-04-10

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  6. 2025-04-10

    Considered in public hearing

  7. 2025-04-10

    Testimony taken in committee

  8. 2025-04-10

    Left pending in committee

  9. 2025-04-15

    Considered in public hearing

  10. 2025-04-15

    Vote taken in committee

  11. 2025-04-16

    Reported favorably as substituted

    committee-passage-favorable

  12. 2025-04-16

    Committee report printed and distributed

  13. 2025-04-28

    Co-author authorized

  14. 2025-04-28

    Placed on intent calendar

  15. 2025-04-29

    Co-author authorized

  16. 2025-04-29

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  17. 2025-04-29

    Vote recorded in Journal

  18. 2025-04-29

    Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment

    reading-2

  19. 2025-04-29

    Vote recorded in Journal

  20. 2025-04-29

    Three day rule suspended

  21. 2025-04-29

    Record vote

  22. 2025-04-29

    Read 3rd time

    reading-3

  23. 2025-04-29

    Passed

    passage

  24. 2025-04-29

    Record vote

  25. 2025-04-29

    Reported engrossed

  26. 2025-04-30

    Received from the Senate

    introduction

  27. 2025-05-01

    Read first time

    introduction,reading-1

  28. 2025-05-01

    Referred to Trade, Workforce & Economic Development

    referral-committee

  29. 2025-05-07

    Considered in public hearing

  30. 2025-05-07

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

    committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable

  31. 2025-05-08

    Considered in formal meeting

  32. 2025-05-08

    Vote reconsidered in committee

  33. 2025-05-08

    Committee substitute considered in committee

    substitution

  34. 2025-05-08

    Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent

    referral-committee

  35. 2025-05-08

    Reported favorably as substituted

    committee-passage-favorable

  36. 2025-05-15

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

    filing

  37. 2025-05-15

    Committee report distributed

  38. 2025-05-16

    Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar

  39. 2025-05-19

    Considered in Local & Consent Calendars

  40. 2025-05-21

    Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar

  41. 2025-05-21

    Read 2nd time

    reading-2

  42. 2025-05-21

    Passed to 3rd reading

  43. 2025-05-21

    Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal

  44. 2025-05-21

    Read 3rd time

    reading-3

  45. 2025-05-21

    Passed

    passage

  46. 2025-05-21

    Record vote

  47. 2025-05-21

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  48. 2025-05-21

    Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal

  49. 2025-05-22

    House passage as amended reported

    amendment-passage

  50. 2025-05-26

    House amendment(s) laid before the Senate

  51. 2025-05-26

    Read

  52. 2025-05-26

    Senate concurs in House amendment(s)

  53. 2025-05-26

    Record vote

  54. 2025-05-26

    Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported

  55. 2025-05-26

    Reported enrolled

    enrolled

  56. 2025-05-27

    Signed in the Senate

    passage

  57. 2025-05-28

    Signed in the House

    passage

  58. 2025-05-28

    Sent to the Governor

    executive-receipt

  59. 2025-06-20

    Signed by the Governor

    executive-signature

  60. 2025-06-20

    Effective on 9/1/25

    became-law

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that CSSB 647 be placed on its third reading and final passage.

    2025-04-29 · pass · 29-1

    Member-level votes (2)
    • Hagenbuch: no
    • Menéndez: not voting

  • passage

    2025-05-21 · pass · 116-25

    Member-level votes (25)
    • Cook: no
    • Cunningham: no
    • Dorazio: no
    • Harrison: no
    • Hickland: no
    • Holt: no
    • Hopper: no
    • Hull: no
    • LaHood: no
    • Leo Wilson: no
    • Little: no
    • Luther: no
    • Morgan: no
    • Noble: no
    • Olcott: no
    • Patterson: no
    • Pierson: no
    • Richardson: no
    • Schatzline: no
    • Schoolcraft: no
    • Shofner: no
    • Spiller: no
    • Tinderholt: no
    • Toth: no
    • Troxclair: no

  • passage

    2025-05-26 · pass · 29-1

    Member-level votes (31)
    • Alvarado: yes
    • Bettencourt: yes
    • Birdwell: yes
    • Blanco: yes
    • Campbell: yes
    • Cook: yes
    • Creighton: yes
    • Eckhardt: yes
    • Flores: yes
    • Gutierrez: yes
    • Hall: yes
    • Hancock: yes
    • A. Hinojosa: yes
    • J. Hinojosa: yes
    • Huffman: yes
    • Hughes: yes
    • Johnson: yes
    • King: yes
    • Kolkhorst: yes
    • Middleton: yes
    • Miles: yes
    • Nichols: yes
    • Parker: yes
    • Paxton: yes
    • Perry: yes
    • Schwertner: yes
    • Sparks: yes
    • West: yes
    • Zaffirini: yes
    • Hagenbuch: no
    • Menéndez: not voting

Related bills

Official source

ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00600_SB00699/SB 647.xml

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