Bill Commons

TX SJR 18

withdrawn

Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the imposition of a tax on the realized or unrealized capital gains of an individual, family, estate, or trust.

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

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Quick answers

Did TX SJR 18 pass?

No. TX SJR 18 was withdrawn and is no longer under consideration. Latest recorded action (2025-05-07): Filed with the Secretary of State

What is TX SJR 18 about?

TX SJR 18 is a joint resolution in the 89th Legislature (2025 Regular Session) titled “Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the imposition of a tax on the realized or unrealized capital gains of an individual, family, estate, or trust.”.

Who sponsors TX SJR 18?

Perry, Capriglione, Metcalf are the primary sponsors of TX SJR 18, joined by 6 cosponsors.

Introduced
2024-11-12
Latest action
2025-05-07 — Filed with the Secretary of State
Bill type
joint resolution
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Perryprimary
  • Capriglioneprimary
  • Metcalfprimary
  • Creightoncosponsor
  • Kolkhorstcosponsor
  • Middletoncosponsor
  • Schwertnercosponsor
  • Bettencourtcosponsor
  • Birdwellcosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2025-05-07

    Filed with the Secretary of State

  2. 2025-05-07

    Signed in the House

    passage

  3. 2025-05-07

    Signed in the Senate

    passage

  4. 2025-05-05

    Reported enrolled

    enrolled

  5. 2025-05-05

    Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported

  6. 2025-05-05

    Record vote

  7. 2025-05-05

    Senate concurs in House amendment(s)

  8. 2025-05-05

    Read

  9. 2025-05-05

    House amendment(s) laid before the Senate

  10. 2025-05-05

    Co-author authorized

  11. 2025-04-28

    House passage as amended reported

    amendment-passage

  12. 2025-04-28

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  13. 2025-04-28

    Record vote

  14. 2025-04-28

    Adopted as amended

  15. 2025-04-28

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  16. 2025-04-28

    Record vote

  17. 2025-04-28

    Amended

    amendment-passage

  18. 2025-04-28

    Laid out as postponed business

  19. 2025-04-28

    Postponed

  20. 2025-04-28

    Amendment withdrawn

    amendment-withdrawal,withdrawal

  21. 2025-04-28

    Point of order withdrawn (amendment)

    withdrawal

  22. 2025-04-28

    Amendment(s) offered

    amendment-introduction

  23. 2025-04-28

    Read 2nd time

    reading-2

  24. 2025-04-28

    Laid out in lieu of companion

  25. 2025-04-24

    Considered in Calendars

  26. 2025-03-31

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  27. 2025-03-31

    Committee report distributed

  28. 2025-03-31

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

    filing

  29. 2025-03-27

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

    committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable

  30. 2025-03-27

    Considered in formal meeting

  31. 2025-03-25

    Referred to Ways & Means

    referral-committee

  32. 2025-03-25

    Read first time

    introduction,reading-1

  33. 2025-03-19

    Received from the Senate

    introduction

  34. 2025-03-18

    Reported engrossed

  35. 2025-03-18

    Record vote

  36. 2025-03-18

    Passed

    passage

  37. 2025-03-18

    Read 3rd time

    reading-3

  38. 2025-03-18

    Record vote

  39. 2025-03-18

    Three day rule suspended

  40. 2025-03-18

    Record vote

  41. 2025-03-18

    Passed to engrossment as amended

    amendment-passage

  42. 2025-03-18

    Vote recorded in Journal

  43. 2025-03-18

    Amended

    amendment-passage

  44. 2025-03-18

    Amendment(s) offered

    amendment-introduction

  45. 2025-03-18

    Read 2nd time

    reading-2

  46. 2025-03-18

    Record vote

  47. 2025-03-18

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  48. 2025-03-18

    Co-author authorized

  49. 2025-03-12

    Placed on intent calendar

  50. 2025-03-06

    Co-author authorized

  51. 2025-03-05

    Committee report printed and distributed

  52. 2025-03-05

    Reported favorably w/o amendments

    committee-passage-favorable

  53. 2025-03-05

    Vote taken in committee

  54. 2025-03-05

    Considered in public hearing

  55. 2025-03-05

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  56. 2025-02-03

    Referred to Finance

    referral-committee

  57. 2025-02-03

    Read first time

    introduction,reading-1

  58. 2024-11-12

    Filed

    filing

  59. 2024-11-12

    Received by the Secretary of the Senate

    filing,introduction

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • adoption of Floor Amendment No. 1

    2025-03-18 · pass · 0-0

  • passage

    2025-03-18 · pass · 24-6

    Member-level votes (31)
    • Alvarado: yes
    • Bettencourt: yes
    • Birdwell: yes
    • Campbell: yes
    • Creighton: yes
    • Flores: yes
    • Gutierrez: yes
    • Hagenbuch: yes
    • Hall: yes
    • Hancock: yes
    • A. Hinojosa: yes
    • J. Hinojosa: yes
    • Huffman: yes
    • Hughes: yes
    • King: yes
    • Kolkhorst: yes
    • Middleton: yes
    • Nichols: yes
    • Parker: yes
    • Paxton: yes
    • Perry: yes
    • Schwertner: yes
    • Sparks: yes
    • Zaffirini: yes
    • Cook: no
    • Eckhardt: no
    • Johnson: no
    • Menéndez: no
    • Miles: no
    • West: no
    • Blanco: absent
  • Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that SJR 18 be placed on its third reading and final passage.

    2025-03-18 · pass · 24-6

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

    2025-04-28 · pass · 104-26

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

    2025-05-05 · pass · 25-6

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

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