TX SB 263

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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

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4. 2025-02-03

   Referred to Finance

   referral-committee

5. 2025-03-05

   Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

6. 2025-03-05

   Considered in public hearing

7. 2025-03-05

   Vote taken in committee

8. 2025-03-05

   Reported favorably w/o amendments

   committee-passage-favorable

9. 2025-03-05

   Recommended for local & uncontested calendar

10. 2025-03-05

    Committee report printed and distributed

11. 2025-03-12

    Placed on intent calendar

12. 2025-03-13

    Rules suspended-Constitutional 60-Day

13. 2025-03-13

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

14. 2025-03-13

    Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment

    reading-2

15. 2025-03-13

    Vote recorded in Journal

16. 2025-03-13

    Three day rule suspended

17. 2025-03-13

    Record vote

18. 2025-03-13

    Read 3rd time

    reading-3

19. 2025-03-13

    Passed

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20. 2025-03-13

    Record vote

21. 2025-03-13

    Reported engrossed

22. 2025-03-18

    Received from the Senate

    introduction

23. 2025-04-22

    Read first time

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24. 2025-04-22

    Referred to Ways & Means

    referral-committee

25. 2025-05-12

    Considered in public hearing

26. 2025-05-12

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

27. 2025-05-12

    Left pending in committee

28. 2025-05-14

    Considered in formal meeting

29. 2025-05-14

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

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30. 2025-05-16

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

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31. 2025-05-16

    Committee report distributed

32. 2025-05-19

    Committee report sent to Calendars

33. 2025-05-20

    Considered in Calendars

34. 2025-05-22

    Placed on General State Calendar

35. 2025-05-22

    Read 2nd time

    reading-2

36. 2025-05-22

    Passed to 3rd reading

37. 2025-05-22

    Record vote

38. 2025-05-22

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

39. 2025-05-23

    Read 3rd time

    reading-3

40. 2025-05-23

    Passed

    passage

41. 2025-05-23

    Record vote

42. 2025-05-23

    House passage reported

    passage

43. 2025-05-23

    Reported enrolled

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44. 2025-05-26

    Signed in the Senate

    passage

45. 2025-05-26

    Signed in the House

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46. 2025-05-27

    Sent to the Governor

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47. 2025-06-20

    Signed by the Governor

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48. 2025-06-20

    Effective immediately

    became-law

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• Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that SB 263 be placed on its third reading and final passage.

  2025-03-13 · pass · 30-0

  Member-level votes (1)

  • King: absent

• passage

  2025-05-22 · pass · 130-12

  Member-level votes (152)

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

• passage

  2025-05-23 · pass · 132-7

  Member-level votes (153)

  • Alders: yes
  • Allen: yes
  • Anchía: yes
  • Ashby: yes
  • Barry: yes
  • Bell, C.: yes
  • Bell, K.: yes
  • Bernal: yes
  • Bhojani: yes
  • Bonnen: yes
  • Bowers: yes
  • Buckley: yes
  • Bucy: yes
  • Bumgarner: yes
  • Button: 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
  • Flores: yes
  • Frank: yes
  • Gámez: 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 Davila: yes
  • Hayes: yes
  • Hefner: yes
  • Hernandez: yes
  • Hickland: yes
  • Hinojosa: yes
  • Holt: yes
  • Hopper: yes
  • Howard: yes
  • Hull: yes
  • Hunter: 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
  • 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, E.: yes
  • Morales Shaw: yes
  • Morgan: yes
  • Muñoz: yes
  • Noble: yes
  • Olcott: yes
  • Oliverson: yes
  • Ordaz: yes
  • Orr: yes
  • Patterson: 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
  • Slawson: yes
  • Spiller: yes
  • Swanson: yes
  • Talarico: yes
  • Tepper: yes
  • Thompson: yes
  • Troxclair: yes
  • Turner: yes
  • VanDeaver: yes
  • Vasut: yes
  • Villalobos: yes
  • Virdell: yes
  • Vo: yes
  • Walle: yes
  • Ward Johnson: yes
  • Wharton: yes
  • Wilson: yes
  • Wu: yes
  • Bryant: no
  • Cain: no
  • Isaac: no
  • Lowe: no
  • Morales, C.: no
  • Tinderholt: no
  • Toth: no
  • Present: not voting
  • Mr. Speaker(C): not voting
  • Absent: absent
  • Campos: absent
  • Garcia: absent
  • J: absent
  • Harris: absent
  • Johnson: absent
  • Paul: absent
  • Smithe: absent
  • Harrison: absent
  • Luther: absent
  • Simmons: absent
  • Zwiene: absent

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