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TX SB 1194

enacted

Relating to creating the Central Texas Water Alliance; providing authority to issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain; providing authority to impose fees.

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

Quick answers

Did TX SB 1194 pass?

Yes. TX SB 1194 has been enacted into law as of 2025-05-15. Latest recorded action (2025-05-15): Effective immediately

What is TX SB 1194 about?

TX SB 1194 is a bill in the 89th Legislature (2025 Regular Session) titled “Relating to creating the Central Texas Water Alliance; providing authority to issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain; providing authority to impose fees.”.

Who sponsors TX SB 1194?

Flores, Buckley, Hickland and 2 others are the primary sponsors of TX SB 1194.

Introduced
2025-02-10
Latest action
2025-05-15 — Effective immediately
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Floresprimary
  • Buckleyprimary
  • Hicklandprimary
  • Curryprimary
  • Spillerprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-10

    Received by the Secretary of the Senate

    filing,introduction

  2. 2025-02-10

    Filed

    filing

  3. 2025-02-10

    Transmitted to the Governor

    executive-signature

  4. 2025-02-28

    Read first time

    introduction,reading-1

  5. 2025-02-28

    Referred to Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs

    referral-committee

  6. 2025-03-17

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  7. 2025-03-17

    Considered in public hearing

  8. 2025-03-17

    Testimony taken in committee

  9. 2025-03-17

    Vote taken in committee

  10. 2025-03-17

    Reported favorably as substituted

    committee-passage-favorable

  11. 2025-03-17

    Recommended for local & uncontested calendar

  12. 2025-03-17

    Committee report printed and distributed

  13. 2025-03-20

    Placed on intent calendar

  14. 2025-03-24

    Recommendations filed with the Senate

    filing

  15. 2025-03-25

    Not again placed on intent calendar

  16. 2025-03-26

    Placed on intent calendar

  17. 2025-03-27

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  18. 2025-03-27

    Record vote

  19. 2025-03-27

    Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment

    reading-2

  20. 2025-03-27

    Record vote

  21. 2025-03-27

    Three day rule suspended

  22. 2025-03-27

    Record vote

  23. 2025-03-27

    Read 3rd time

    reading-3

  24. 2025-03-27

    Passed

    passage

  25. 2025-03-27

    Record vote

  26. 2025-03-27

    Reported engrossed

  27. 2025-03-31

    Received from the Senate

    introduction

  28. 2025-04-09

    Read first time

    introduction,reading-1

  29. 2025-04-09

    Referred to Natural Resources

    referral-committee

  30. 2025-04-24

    Considered in formal meeting

  31. 2025-04-24

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

    committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable

  32. 2025-04-28

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

    filing

  33. 2025-04-28

    Committee report distributed

  34. 2025-04-29

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  35. 2025-04-29

    Laid out in lieu of companion

  36. 2025-04-29

    Read 2nd time

    reading-2

  37. 2025-04-29

    Passed to 3rd reading

  38. 2025-04-29

    Record vote

  39. 2025-04-29

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  40. 2025-04-30

    Read 3rd time

    reading-3

  41. 2025-04-30

    Passed

    passage

  42. 2025-04-30

    Record vote

  43. 2025-04-30

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  44. 2025-04-30

    House passage reported

    passage

  45. 2025-04-30

    Reported enrolled

    enrolled

  46. 2025-05-05

    Signed in the Senate

    passage

  47. 2025-05-05

    Signed in the House

    passage

  48. 2025-05-06

    Sent to the Governor

    executive-receipt

  49. 2025-05-15

    Signed by the Governor

    executive-signature

  50. 2025-05-15

    Effective immediately

    became-law

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • passage

    2025-03-27 · pass · 27-3

    Member-level votes (31)
    • Alvarado: yes
    • Birdwell: yes
    • Blanco: yes
    • Campbell: yes
    • Cook: yes
    • Creighton: yes
    • Eckhardt: yes
    • Flores: yes
    • Gutierrez: yes
    • Hagenbuch: yes
    • Hall: yes
    • Hancock: yes
    • A. Hinojosa: yes
    • J. Hinojosa: yes
    • Huffman: yes
    • Johnson: yes
    • Kolkhorst: yes
    • Menéndez: yes
    • Middleton: yes
    • Miles: yes
    • Nichols: yes
    • Parker: yes
    • Paxton: yes
    • Perry: yes
    • Sparks: yes
    • West: yes
    • Zaffirini: yes
    • Bettencourt: no
    • Hughes: no
    • Schwertner: no
    • King: absent

  • Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that CSSB 1194 be placed on its third reading and final passage.

    2025-03-27 · pass · 27-3

    Member-level votes (31)
    • Alvarado: yes
    • Birdwell: yes
    • Blanco: yes
    • Campbell: yes
    • Cook: yes
    • Creighton: yes
    • Eckhardt: yes
    • Flores: yes
    • Gutierrez: yes
    • Hagenbuch: yes
    • Hall: yes
    • Hancock: yes
    • A. Hinojosa: yes
    • J. Hinojosa: yes
    • Huffman: yes
    • Johnson: yes
    • Kolkhorst: yes
    • Menéndez: yes
    • Middleton: yes
    • Miles: yes
    • Nichols: yes
    • Parker: yes
    • Paxton: yes
    • Perry: yes
    • Sparks: yes
    • West: yes
    • Zaffirini: yes
    • Bettencourt: no
    • Hughes: no
    • Schwertner: no
    • King: absent

  • passage

    2025-04-29 · pass · 121-25

    Member-level votes (152)
    • Alders: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Anchía: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Barry: yes
    • Bell, C.: yes
    • Bell, K.: yes
    • Bernal: yes
    • Bhojani: yes
    • Bowers: yes
    • Bryant: yes
    • Buckley: yes
    • Bucy: yes
    • Bumgarner: yes
    • Button: yes
    • Campos: yes
    • Canales: yes
    • Capriglione: yes
    • Cole: yes
    • Collier: yes
    • Cook: yes
    • Cortez: yes
    • Craddick: yes
    • Cunningham: yes
    • Curry: yes
    • Darby: yes
    • Davis, Y.: yes
    • Dean: yes
    • DeAyala: 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
    • 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
    • King: yes
    • Kitzman: 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
    • Orr: 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
    • Schofield: yes
    • Shaheen: yes
    • Shofner: yes
    • Simmons: yes
    • Slawson: yes
    • Smithee: yes
    • Spiller: yes
    • Talarico: yes
    • Tepper: yes
    • Thompson: yes
    • Turner: yes
    • VanDeaver: yes
    • Villalobos: yes
    • Vo: yes
    • Walle: yes
    • Ward Johnson: yes
    • Wharton: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Wu: yes
    • Zwiener: yes
    • Cain: no
    • Dorazio: no
    • Harris Davila: no
    • Harrison: no
    • Holt: no
    • Hopper: no
    • Kerwin: no
    • Leo Wilson: no
    • Little: no
    • Lowe: no
    • Luther: no
    • Money: no
    • Morgan: no
    • Olcott: no
    • Oliverson: no
    • Pierson: no
    • Richardson: no
    • Schatzline: no
    • Schoolcraft: no
    • Swanson: no
    • Tinderholt: no
    • Toth: no
    • Troxclair: no
    • Vasut: no
    • Virdell: no
    • Present: not voting
    • Speaker: not voting
    • Moody(C: not voting
    • Bonnen: absent
    • Davis: absent
    • A: absent

  • passage

    2025-04-30 · pass · 121-20

    Member-level votes (153)
    • Allen: yes
    • Anchía: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Barry: yes
    • Bell, C.: yes
    • Bell, K.: yes
    • Bhojani: yes
    • Bonnen: yes
    • Bowers: yes
    • Bryant: yes
    • Buckley: yes
    • Bucy: yes
    • Bumgarner: yes
    • Button: yes
    • Campos: 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
    • 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
    • González, M.: yes
    • Goodwin: yes
    • Guerra: yes
    • Guillen: yes
    • Harless: yes
    • Hayes: yes
    • Hefner: yes
    • Hernandez: yes
    • Hickland: yes
    • Holt: yes
    • Hopper: yes
    • Howard: yes
    • Hull: yes
    • Hunter: yes
    • Johnson: yes
    • Jones, J.: yes
    • Jones, V.: yes
    • King: yes
    • Kitzman: yes
    • LaHood: yes
    • Lalani: yes
    • Lambert: yes
    • Landgraf: yes
    • Leach: yes
    • Little: 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
    • Money: yes
    • Moody: yes
    • Morales, C.: yes
    • Morales, E.: yes
    • Morales Shaw: yes
    • Muñoz: yes
    • Noble: yes
    • Ordaz: yes
    • Orr: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Paul: yes
    • Perez, M.: yes
    • Perez, V.: yes
    • Phelan: yes
    • Plesa: yes
    • Raymond: yes
    • Reynolds: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Rodríguez Ramos: yes
    • Romero: yes
    • Rose: yes
    • Rosenthal: yes
    • Schofield: yes
    • Shaheen: yes
    • Shofner: yes
    • Simmons: yes
    • Slawson: yes
    • Smithee: yes
    • Spiller: yes
    • Talarico: yes
    • Tepper: yes
    • Thompson: yes
    • Troxclair: yes
    • Turner: yes
    • VanDeaver: yes
    • Villalobos: yes
    • Ward Johnson: yes
    • Wharton: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Wu: yes
    • Zwiener: yes
    • Alders: no
    • Cain: no
    • Canales: no
    • Dorazio: no
    • Harris Davila: no
    • Harrison: no
    • Isaac: no
    • Kerwin: no
    • Leo Wilson: no
    • Lowe: no
    • Luther: no
    • Morgan: no
    • Olcott: no
    • Oliverson: no
    • Pierson: no
    • Schatzline: no
    • Swanson: no
    • Tinderholt: no
    • Toth: no
    • Vasut: no
    • Present: not voting
    • Speaker: not voting
    • Harris(C: not voting
    • Absent: absent
    • Bernal: absent
    • Hinojosa: absent
    • Schoolcraft: absent
    • V: absent
    • Excused: absent
    • Walle: absent
    • Flores: absent
    • Virdel: absent

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Official source

ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB01100_SB01199/SB 1194.xml

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