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TX HB 4588

died on adjournment

Relating to the regulation of aquatic vegetation management by the Parks and Wildlife Department; providing a civil penalty; creating a criminal offense.

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

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Quick answers

Did TX HB 4588 pass?

No. TX HB 4588 died when the 89th Legislature (2025 Regular Session) adjourned without final action on it. Bills that die this way are sometimes reintroduced in a later session. Latest recorded action (2025-05-05): Referred to Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs

What is TX HB 4588 about?

TX HB 4588 is a bill in the 89th Legislature (2025 Regular Session) titled “Relating to the regulation of aquatic vegetation management by the Parks and Wildlife Department; providing a civil penalty; creating a criminal offense.”.

Who sponsors TX HB 4588?

Orr is the primary sponsor of TX HB 4588.

Introduced
2025-04-03
Latest action
2025-05-05 — Referred to Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Orrprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2025-05-05

    Referred to Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs

    referral-committee

  2. 2025-05-05

    Read first time

    introduction,reading-1

  3. 2025-04-30

    Received from the House

    introduction

  4. 2025-04-30

    Reported engrossed

  5. 2025-04-30

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  6. 2025-04-30

    Record vote

  7. 2025-04-30

    Passed

    passage

  8. 2025-04-30

    Read 3rd time

    reading-3

  9. 2025-04-29

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  10. 2025-04-29

    Record vote

  11. 2025-04-29

    Passed to engrossment

  12. 2025-04-29

    Read 2nd time

    reading-2

  13. 2025-04-29

    Placed on General State Calendar

  14. 2025-04-25

    Considered in Calendars

  15. 2025-04-25

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  16. 2025-04-25

    Transferred to Calendars Committee

  17. 2025-04-25

    Considered in Local & Consent Calendars

  18. 2025-04-23

    Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar

  19. 2025-04-22

    Committee report distributed

  20. 2025-04-22

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

    filing

  21. 2025-04-16

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

    committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable

  22. 2025-04-16

    Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent

    referral-committee

  23. 2025-04-16

    Considered in formal meeting

  24. 2025-04-15

    Left pending in committee

  25. 2025-04-15

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  26. 2025-04-15

    Considered in public hearing

  27. 2025-04-03

    Referred to Culture, Recreation & Tourism

    referral-committee

  28. 2025-04-03

    Read first time

    introduction,reading-1

  29. 2025-03-12

    Filed

    filing

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • passage

    2025-04-29 · pass · 112-33

    Member-level votes (152)
    • Allen: yes
    • Anchía: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Barry: yes
    • Bell, C.: yes
    • Bell, K.: yes
    • Bernal: yes
    • Bhojani: yes
    • Bonnen: yes
    • Bowers: yes
    • Bryant: yes
    • Buckley: yes
    • Bucy: yes
    • Button: yes
    • Campos: yes
    • Canales: yes
    • Capriglione: yes
    • Cole: yes
    • Collier: yes
    • Cortez: yes
    • Craddick: yes
    • Cunningham: yes
    • Curry: yes
    • Darby: yes
    • Davis, A.: yes
    • Davis, Y.: yes
    • Dean: yes
    • DeAyala: yes
    • Dorazio: yes
    • Dutton: yes
    • Dyson: yes
    • Fairly: yes
    • Flores: yes
    • Frank: yes
    • Gámez: yes
    • Garcia, J.: yes
    • Garcia, L.: yes
    • Garcia Hernandez: yes
    • Gates: yes
    • Gerdes: yes
    • Geren: yes
    • Gervin-Hawkins: yes
    • González, J.: yes
    • González, M.: yes
    • Goodwin: yes
    • Guerra: yes
    • Guillen: yes
    • Harless: yes
    • Harris: yes
    • Hefner: yes
    • Hernandez: yes
    • Hickland: yes
    • Hinojosa: yes
    • Howard: yes
    • Hull: yes
    • Hunter: yes
    • Isaac: yes
    • Jones, V.: yes
    • King: yes
    • Kitzman: yes
    • Lalani: yes
    • Lambert: yes
    • Landgraf: yes
    • Leach: yes
    • Longoria: yes
    • Lopez, J.: yes
    • Lopez, R.: yes
    • Louderback: yes
    • Lozano: yes
    • Lujan: yes
    • Manuel: yes
    • Martinez: yes
    • Fischer: yes
    • McLaughlin: yes
    • McQueeney: yes
    • Metcalf: yes
    • Meyer: yes
    • Meza: yes
    • Morales, C.: yes
    • Morales Shaw: yes
    • Noble: yes
    • Ordaz: yes
    • Orr: yes
    • Paul: yes
    • Perez, M.: yes
    • Perez, V.: yes
    • Phelan: yes
    • Plesa: yes
    • Raymond: yes
    • Reynolds: yes
    • Rodríguez Ramos: yes
    • Romero: yes
    • Rose: yes
    • Rosenthal: yes
    • Schofield: yes
    • Shaheen: yes
    • Shofner: yes
    • Simmons: yes
    • Smithee: yes
    • Spiller: yes
    • Talarico: yes
    • Tepper: yes
    • Thompson: yes
    • Turner: yes
    • VanDeaver: yes
    • Vasut: yes
    • Villalobos: yes
    • Vo: yes
    • Walle: yes
    • Ward Johnson: yes
    • Wu: yes
    • Zwiener: yes
    • Alders: no
    • Bumgarner: no
    • Cain: no
    • Cook: no
    • Harris Davila: no
    • Harrison: no
    • Hayes: no
    • Holt: no
    • Hopper: no
    • Jones, J.: no
    • Kerwin: no
    • LaHood: no
    • Leo Wilson: no
    • Little: no
    • Lowe: no
    • Luther: no
    • Money: no
    • Morgan: no
    • Muñoz: no
    • Olcott: no
    • Oliverson: no
    • Pierson: no
    • Richardson: no
    • Schatzline: no
    • Schoolcraft: no
    • Slawson: no
    • Swanson: no
    • Tinderholt: no
    • Toth: no
    • Troxclair: no
    • Virdell: no
    • Wharton: no
    • Wilson: no
    • Present: not voting
    • Speaker: not voting
    • Moody(C: not voting
    • Johnson: absent
    • Morales: absent
    • E: absent
    • Patterso: absent
  • passage

    2025-04-30 · pass · 109-24

    Member-level votes (151)
    • Allen: yes
    • Anchía: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Barry: yes
    • Bell, C.: yes
    • Bell, K.: yes
    • Bhojani: yes
    • Bonnen: yes
    • Bowers: yes
    • Bryant: yes
    • Bucy: yes
    • Button: yes
    • Campos: yes
    • Canales: yes
    • Capriglione: yes
    • Cole: yes
    • Collier: yes
    • Cortez: yes
    • Craddick: yes
    • Curry: yes
    • Darby: yes
    • Davis, A.: yes
    • Davis, Y.: yes
    • Dean: yes
    • DeAyala: yes
    • Dorazio: yes
    • Dutton: yes
    • Dyson: yes
    • Fairly: yes
    • Flores: yes
    • Gámez: yes
    • Garcia, J.: yes
    • Garcia, L.: yes
    • Garcia Hernandez: yes
    • Gates: yes
    • Gerdes: yes
    • Geren: yes
    • Gervin-Hawkins: yes
    • González, J.: yes
    • González, M.: yes
    • Goodwin: yes
    • Guerra: yes
    • Guillen: yes
    • Harless: yes
    • Harris: yes
    • Hefner: yes
    • Hernandez: yes
    • Hickland: yes
    • Howard: yes
    • Hull: yes
    • Isaac: yes
    • Johnson: yes
    • Jones, J.: yes
    • Jones, V.: yes
    • King: yes
    • LaHood: yes
    • Lalani: yes
    • Lambert: yes
    • Landgraf: yes
    • Leach: yes
    • Longoria: yes
    • Lopez, J.: yes
    • Lopez, R.: yes
    • Louderback: yes
    • Lozano: yes
    • Lujan: yes
    • Manuel: yes
    • Martinez: yes
    • Fischer: yes
    • McLaughlin: yes
    • McQueeney: yes
    • Metcalf: yes
    • Meyer: yes
    • Meza: yes
    • Morales, C.: yes
    • Morales, E.: yes
    • Morales Shaw: yes
    • Muñoz: yes
    • Noble: yes
    • Ordaz: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Paul: yes
    • Perez, M.: yes
    • Perez, V.: yes
    • Phelan: yes
    • Plesa: yes
    • Raymond: yes
    • Reynolds: yes
    • Rodríguez Ramos: yes
    • Romero: yes
    • Rose: yes
    • Rosenthal: yes
    • Shaheen: yes
    • Shofner: yes
    • Simmons: yes
    • Slawson: yes
    • Smithee: yes
    • Spiller: yes
    • Talarico: yes
    • Tepper: yes
    • Thompson: yes
    • Turner: yes
    • VanDeaver: yes
    • Vasut: yes
    • Villalobos: yes
    • Walle: yes
    • Ward Johnson: yes
    • Wu: yes
    • Zwiener: yes
    • Alders: no
    • Bumgarner: no
    • Cain: no
    • Cook: no
    • Harris Davila: no
    • Harrison: no
    • Hayes: no
    • Hopper: no
    • Little: no
    • Lowe: no
    • Luther: no
    • Money: no
    • Morgan: no
    • Olcott: no
    • Oliverson: no
    • Pierson: no
    • Richardson: no
    • Schatzline: no
    • Schofield: no
    • Swanson: no
    • Tinderholt: no
    • Toth: no
    • Wharton: no
    • Wilson: no
    • Present: not voting
    • Speaker: not voting
    • Moody(C: not voting
    • Absent: absent
    • Bernal: absent
    • Holt: absent
    • Schoolcraft: absent
    • V: absent
    • Buckley: absent
    • Cunningham: absent
    • Frank: absent
    • Hinojosa: absent
    • Hunter: absent
    • Kerwin: absent
    • Kitzman: absent
    • Orr: absent
    • Troxclair: absent
    • Virdel: absent

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