Legislation: batch D — NY OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TX UT

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/tx/86/hb-2048.md

@@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to the repeal of the driver responsibility program and the amount and allocation of state traffic fine funds; eliminating program surcharges; authorizing and increasing criminal fines; increasing a fee."
+description: "Relating to the repeal of the driver responsibility program and the amount and allocation of state traffic fine funds; eliminating program surcharges; authorizing and increasing criminal fines; increasing a fee."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "HB 2048"
+citation: "Texas HB 2048 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["City Government--Finance (I0062)", "County Government--Finance (I0097)", "Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--State (I0362)", "Vehicles & Traffic--Driver's Licenses (I0840)", "Vehicles & Traffic--DWI & DUID (I0863)", "Vehicles & Traffic--Rules of Road (I0860)", "COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS (V2608)", "PUBLIC SAFETY", "DEPARTMENT OF (V0251)", "STATE HEALTH SERVICES", "DEPARTMENT OF (V0463)", "TRANSPORTATION", "TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF (V8796)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Darby", "Davis, Sarah", "Howard", "Huffman", "Krause", "Zerwas"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 69
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2019-02-20"
+last_action: "2019-06-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19f76663-e489-4e23-a5cc-00f316f46120"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB02000_HB02099/HB 2048.xml"
+source_hash: "3c2e9dddcb591512ec757844cececf6cdce953a21e224b8cc87956b264a53090"
+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 2048 (86) — Relating to the repeal of the driver responsibility program and the amount and allocation of state traffic fine funds; eliminating program surcharges; authorizing and increasing criminal fines; increasing a fee.
+
+## 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/HB02048I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- other — **141–0** (fail) · upper
+- passage — **143–0** (pass) · lower
+- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- passage — **144–0** (pass) · lower
+- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- passage — **141–0** (pass) · lower
+- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Darby — primary (person)
+- Davis, Sarah — primary (person)
+- Howard — primary (person)
+- Huffman — primary (person)
+- Krause — primary (person)
+- Zerwas — primary (person)
+- Anderson, Charles "Doc" — cosponsor (person)
+- Blanco — cosponsor (person)
+- Gervin-Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Guillen — cosponsor (person)
+- Hall — cosponsor (person)
+- Israel — cosponsor (person)
+- Johnson, Jarvis — cosponsor (person)
+- King, Ken — cosponsor (person)
+- Lambert — cosponsor (person)
+- Miles — cosponsor (person)
+- Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Minjarez — cosponsor (person)
+- Ortega — cosponsor (person)
+- Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
+- Romero, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Sheffield — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner, Chris — cosponsor (person)
+- White — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Wu — cosponsor (person)
+- Zaffirini — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-20** Filed `filing`
+- **2019-03-05** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-03-05** Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-03** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-04-03** Committee substitute considered in committee
+- **2019-04-03** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2019-04-03** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-04-08** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2019-04-08** Committee substitute considered in committee
+- **2019-04-08** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-15** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-04-15** Committee report distributed
+- **2019-04-16** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2019-04-25** Considered in Calendars
+- **2019-04-29** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2019-05-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-01** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-05-01** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-05-01** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-05-01** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-05-01** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-05-01** Passed to engrossment as amended
+- **2019-05-01** Record vote
+- **2019-05-01** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-02** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-05-02** Passed as amended `passage`
+- **2019-05-02** Record vote
+- **2019-05-02** Reported engrossed
+- **2019-05-03** Received from the House `introduction`
+- **2019-05-06** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-05-06** Referred to Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-07** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-05-08** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-05-08** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2019-05-09** Co-sponsor authorized
+- **2019-05-09** Placed on intent calendar
+- **2019-05-14** Co-sponsor authorized
+- **2019-05-15** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2019-05-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-15** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2019-05-15** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-05-15** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-15** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2019-05-15** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-05-15** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-15** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2019-05-15** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-05-15** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-15** Passed to 3rd reading as amended
+- **2019-05-15** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-15** Three day rule suspended
+- **2019-05-15** Record vote
+- **2019-05-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-15** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-15** Record vote
+- **2019-05-15** Senate passage as amended reported
+- **2019-05-17** Senate Amendments distributed
+- **2019-05-17** Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
+- **2019-05-23** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
+- **2019-05-23** Record vote
+- **2019-05-23** Text of Senate Amendment(s)
+- **2019-05-23** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported
+- **2019-05-25** Reported enrolled
+- **2019-05-26** Signed in the House
+- **2019-05-27** Signed in the Senate
+- **2019-05-29** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-14** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-14** 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/19f76663-e489-4e23-a5cc-00f316f46120`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+