Bill Commons

TX SB 229

died on adjournment

Relating to prohibiting a retail seller of motor vehicles from imposing certain restrictions on the purchase of a motor vehicle.

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

Quick answers

Did TX SB 229 pass?

No. TX SB 229 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 (2025-05-01): Left pending in committee

What is TX SB 229 about?

TX SB 229 is a bill in the 89th Legislature (2025 Regular Session) titled “Relating to prohibiting a retail seller of motor vehicles from imposing certain restrictions on the purchase of a motor vehicle.”.

Who sponsors TX SB 229?

West is the primary sponsor of TX SB 229, joined by 12 cosponsors.

Introduced
2024-11-12
Latest action
2025-05-01 — Left pending in committee
Bill type
bill
Last updated

Subjects

Sponsors

  • Westprimary
  • Alvaradocosponsor
  • Bettencourtcosponsor
  • Cookcosponsor
  • Eckhardtcosponsor
  • Hinojosa, Adamcosponsor
  • Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy"cosponsor
  • Johnsoncosponsor
  • Kolkhorstcosponsor
  • Middletoncosponsor
  • Nicholscosponsor
  • Paxtoncosponsor
  • Perrycosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2024-11-12

    Received by the Secretary of the Senate

    filing,introduction

  2. 2024-11-12

    Filed

    filing

  3. 2025-02-03

    Read first time

    introduction,reading-1

  4. 2025-02-03

    Referred to Business & Commerce

    referral-committee

  5. 2025-02-12

    Co-author authorized

  6. 2025-02-13

    Co-author authorized

  7. 2025-02-19

    Co-author authorized

  8. 2025-02-20

    Co-author authorized

  9. 2025-05-01

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  10. 2025-05-01

    Considered in public hearing

  11. 2025-05-01

    Testimony taken in committee

  12. 2025-05-01

    Left pending in committee

Versions

Documents

Votes

Not provided by source.

Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

Official source

Attribution

Data from openstates_bulk_csv, retrieved 2026-07-24T05:33:51.767464Z

Inspect retained evidence for changes recorded after evidence tracking began:

Session-wide evidence can include changes to other bills:

Use this data

Every field on this page is available from the free public API — no key or licence required. Fetch this bill as JSON: GET /api/v1/bills?jurisdiction=TX&identifier=SB 229. See the API docs or the MCP server for AI assistants.

Known limitations

  • Sponsor party and chamber affiliation are not yet captured by this API.
  • Committee referrals are not yet captured.

See the methodology page for data sources and limitations.