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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to affidavits concerning cost and necessity of services."
+description: "Relating to affidavits concerning cost and necessity of services."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "HB 1693"
+citation: "Texas HB 1693 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Civil Remedies & Liabilities (I0065)", "Courts--Civil Procedure (I0135)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hughes", "Smithee"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 48
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-02-12"
+last_action: "2019-06-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1764fa49-9d4b-4933-b841-14edb8146d0a"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB01600_HB01699/HB 1693.xml"
+source_hash: "912a89ee9584191bd51c74fcb7768a18c24357a2233eb012066d216da66f1c19"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tx"]
+---
+
+# Texas HB 1693 (86) — Relating to affidavits concerning cost and necessity of services.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/86R/billtext/html/HB01693I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **119–17** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hughes — primary (person)
+- Smithee — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-12** Filed `filing`
+- **2019-03-04** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-03-04** Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-25** Posting rule suspended
+- **2019-03-25** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-03-25** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2019-03-25** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-04-01** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-04-01** Committee substitute considered in committee
+- **2019-04-01** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-16** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-04-17** Committee report distributed
+- **2019-04-17** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2019-04-18** Considered in Calendars
+- **2019-04-24** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2019-04-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-04-24** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-04-24** Passed to engrossment as amended
+- **2019-04-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-04-25** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-04-25** Record vote
+- **2019-04-25** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-04-26** Reported engrossed
+- **2019-04-26** Received from the House `introduction`
+- **2019-04-29** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-04-29** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-13** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-05-13** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-05-13** Testimony taken in committee
+- **2019-05-14** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-05-14** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
+- **2019-05-14** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2019-05-20** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
+- **2019-05-20** Laid before the Senate
+- **2019-05-20** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
+- **2019-05-20** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-20** Three day rule suspended
+- **2019-05-20** Record vote
+- **2019-05-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-20** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-20** Record vote
+- **2019-05-21** Senate passage reported
+- **2019-05-21** Reported enrolled
+- **2019-05-22** Signed in the House
+- **2019-05-24** Signed in the Senate
+- **2019-05-24** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-10** Effective on 9/1/19 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1764fa49-9d4b-4933-b841-14edb8146d0a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
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