TX HCR 72
died on adjournmentDesignating Newton County as the official Forest Capital of Texas for a 10-year period ending in 2035.
Texas · 89th Legislature (2025 Regular Session) · lower
Quick answers
Did TX HCR 72 pass?
No. TX HCR 72 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 Administration
What is TX HCR 72 about?
TX HCR 72 is a concurrent resolution in the 89th Legislature (2025 Regular Session) titled “Designating Newton County as the official Forest Capital of Texas for a 10-year period ending in 2035.”.
Who sponsors TX HCR 72?
Shofner is the primary sponsor of TX HCR 72.
- Introduced
- 2025-05-05
- Latest action
- 2025-05-05 — Referred to Administration
- Bill type
- concurrent resolution
- Last updated
- —
Subjects
Sponsors
- Shofnerprimary
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
2025-02-12
Filed
filing
2025-03-05
Referred to Culture, Recreation & Tourism
referral-committee
2025-04-08
Considered in public hearing
2025-04-08
Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
2025-04-08
Left pending in committee
2025-04-15
Considered in public hearing
2025-04-15
Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent
referral-committee
2025-04-15
Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-04-22
Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
filing
2025-04-22
Committee report distributed
2025-04-23
Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
2025-04-25
Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
2025-04-25
Transferred to Calendars Committee
2025-04-25
Committee report sent to Calendars
2025-04-28
Considered in Calendars
2025-04-30
Placed on Resolutions Calendar
2025-05-01
Laid before the House
receipt
2025-05-01
Adopted
passage
2025-05-01
Record vote
2025-05-01
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-05
Received from the House
introduction
2025-05-05
Read first time
introduction,reading-1
2025-05-05
Referred to Administration
referral-committee
Versions
Documents
- text/html
- application/pdf
- application/pdf
- text/html
- text/html(no extracted text yet)
Votes
passage
2025-05-01 · pass · 139-0
Member-level votes (154)
- Alders: yes
- 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
- Bumgarner: yes
- Button: yes
- Cain: yes
- Campos: yes
- Canales: yes
- Capriglione: yes
- Cole: yes
- Collier: yes
- Cook: 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
- 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
- Goodwin: yes
- Guerra: yes
- Guillen: yes
- Harless: yes
- Harris: yes
- Harris Davila: yes
- Harrison: yes
- Hayes: yes
- Hefner: yes
- Hernandez: yes
- Hickland: yes
- Hinojosa: yes
- Howard: yes
- Hull: yes
- Hunter: yes
- Isaac: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Jones, J.: yes
- Jones, V.: yes
- Kerwin: yes
- King: yes
- Kitzman: yes
- LaHood: yes
- Lalani: yes
- Lambert: yes
- Landgraf: yes
- Leach: yes
- Leo Wilson: yes
- Longoria: yes
- Lopez, J.: yes
- Lopez, R.: yes
- Louderback: yes
- Lowe: yes
- Lozano: yes
- Lujan: yes
- Manuel: yes
- Martinez: yes
- Fischer: yes
- McLaughlin: yes
- McQueeney: yes
- Metcalf: yes
- Meyer: yes
- Meza: yes
- Money: yes
- Morales, C.: yes
- Morales, E.: yes
- Morales Shaw: yes
- Morgan: yes
- Muñoz: yes
- Noble: yes
- Olcott: yes
- Oliverson: yes
- Ordaz: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Paul: yes
- Perez, M.: yes
- Perez, V.: yes
- Phelan: yes
- Pierson: yes
- Plesa: yes
- Raymond: yes
- Reynolds: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Rodríguez Ramos: yes
- Romero: yes
- Rose: yes
- Rosenthal: yes
- Schatzline: yes
- Schofield: yes
- Schoolcraft: yes
- Shaheen: yes
- Shofner: yes
- Simmons: yes
- Slawson: yes
- Smithee: yes
- Spiller: yes
- Swanson: yes
- Tepper: yes
- Thompson: yes
- Tinderholt: yes
- Toth: yes
- Troxclair: yes
- Turner: yes
- VanDeaver: yes
- Vasut: yes
- Villalobos: yes
- Virdell: yes
- Vo: yes
- Ward Johnson: yes
- Wharton: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Wu: yes
- Zwiener: yes
- Present: not voting
- Speaker: not voting
- Hopper: not voting
- Little: not voting
- Luther: not voting
- Moody(C: not voting
- Absent: absent
- Holt: absent
- Talaric: absent
- Excused: absent
- Orr: absent
- Wall: absent
- Flores: absent
- González: absent
- M: absent
Related bills
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