Bill Commons

TX SJR 39

died on adjournment

Proposing a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to override a veto of the governor following a regular session of the legislature.

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

Follow this bill’s action updates (Atom)

Subscribe in a feed reader. The feed covers recorded actions from the last 30 days; Bill Commons may record an action after it happened at the legislature.

Quick answers

Did TX SJR 39 pass?

No. TX SJR 39 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 (2025-04-22): Referred to State Affairs

What is TX SJR 39 about?

TX SJR 39 is a joint resolution in the 89th Legislature (2025 Regular Session) titled “Proposing a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to override a veto of the governor following a regular session of the legislature.”.

Who sponsors TX SJR 39?

Birdwell is the primary sponsor of TX SJR 39, joined by 1 cosponsor.

Introduced
2025-01-22
Latest action
2025-04-22 — Referred to State Affairs
Bill type
joint resolution
Last updated
—

Subjects

Sponsors

  • Birdwellprimary
  • Eckhardtcosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2025-04-22

    Referred to State Affairs

    referral-committee

  2. 2025-04-22

    Read first time

    introduction,reading-1

  3. 2025-04-17

    Received from the Senate

    introduction

  4. 2025-04-16

    Reported engrossed

  5. 2025-04-16

    Record vote

  6. 2025-04-16

    Passed

    passage

  7. 2025-04-16

    Read 3rd time

    reading-3

  8. 2025-04-16

    Record vote

  9. 2025-04-16

    Three day rule suspended

  10. 2025-04-16

    Vote recorded in Journal

  11. 2025-04-16

    Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment

    reading-2

  12. 2025-04-16

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  13. 2025-04-14

    Placed on intent calendar

  14. 2025-04-09

    Committee report printed and distributed

  15. 2025-04-09

    Reported favorably as substituted

    committee-passage-favorable

  16. 2025-04-07

    Vote taken in committee

  17. 2025-04-07

    Considered in public hearing

  18. 2025-03-27

    Left pending in committee

  19. 2025-03-27

    Testimony taken in committee

  20. 2025-03-27

    Considered in public hearing

  21. 2025-03-27

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  22. 2025-02-07

    Referred to State Affairs

    referral-committee

  23. 2025-02-07

    Read first time

    introduction,reading-1

  24. 2025-02-05

    Co-author authorized

  25. 2025-01-22

    Filed

    filing

  26. 2025-01-22

    Received by the Secretary of the Senate

    filing,introduction

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that CSSJR 39 be placed on its third reading and final passage.

    2025-04-16 · pass · 31-0

Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

Official source

ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_joint_resolutions/SJR00001_SJR00099/SJR 39.xml

Attribution

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

Inspect retained evidence for changes recorded after evidence tracking began:

Source and document changesStatus and relationship changes

Session-wide evidence can include changes to other bills:

Bulk imports for this sessionSession dates and activity

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=SJR 39. 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.
  • Some documents have no extracted text yet, so version comparison may be limited.

See the methodology page for data sources and limitations.