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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to a work group on enhancing the training and credentialing of emergency management personnel."
+description: "Relating to a work group on enhancing the training and credentialing of emergency management personnel."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "HB 2305"
+citation: "Texas HB 2305 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Disaster Preparedness & Relief (I0211)", "Occupational Regulation--Other Trades & Professions (I0541)", "State Agencies", "Boards & Commissions (I0749)", "EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT", "DIVISION OF THE DEPT. OF PUBLIC SAFETY (V0318)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Herrero", "Kolkhorst", "Lozano", "Morrison", "Murr", "Stephenson"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 49
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-03-04"
+last_action: "2019-06-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7b23eabc-a2ce-4d1d-a08f-377e1d11398b"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB02300_HB02399/HB 2305.xml"
+source_hash: "c9b32ba552554bc09c5cbc859a984d90b51df3a479630ebd8769b359b05137f7"
+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 2305 (86) — Relating to a work group on enhancing the training and credentialing of emergency management personnel.
+
+## 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/HB02305I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **146–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Herrero — primary (person)
+- Kolkhorst — primary (person)
+- Lozano — primary (person)
+- Morrison — primary (person)
+- Murr — primary (person)
+- Stephenson — primary (person)
+- Allen — cosponsor (person)
+- Allison — cosponsor (person)
+- Ashby — cosponsor (person)
+- Beckley — cosponsor (person)
+- Bernal — cosponsor (person)
+- Blanco — cosponsor (person)
+- Bohac — cosponsor (person)
+- Bucy — cosponsor (person)
+- Cain — cosponsor (person)
+- Canales — cosponsor (person)
+- Capriglione — cosponsor (person)
+- Clardy — cosponsor (person)
+- Collier — cosponsor (person)
+- Cortez — cosponsor (person)
+- Dean — cosponsor (person)
+- Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
+- Dominguez — cosponsor (person)
+- Farrar — cosponsor (person)
+- Goldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hernandez — cosponsor (person)
+- Krause — cosponsor (person)
+- Lang — cosponsor (person)
+- Leman — cosponsor (person)
+- Longoria — cosponsor (person)
+- Lucio III — cosponsor (person)
+- Martinez — cosponsor (person)
+- Martinez Fischer — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales — cosponsor (person)
+- Muñoz, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Parker — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul — cosponsor (person)
+- Perez — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosenthal — cosponsor (person)
+- Swanson — cosponsor (person)
+- Thierry — cosponsor (person)
+- Thompson, Ed — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner, John — cosponsor (person)
+- Walle — cosponsor (person)
+- White — cosponsor (person)
+- Wu — cosponsor (person)
+- Zwiener — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-03-04** Filed `filing`
+- **2019-03-06** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-03-06** Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-13** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-03-13** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2019-03-13** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-04-02** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2019-04-02** Committee substitute considered in committee
+- **2019-04-02** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-04** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-04-05** Committee report distributed
+- **2019-04-05** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2019-04-08** Considered in Calendars
+- **2019-04-10** Placed on Major State Calendar
+- **2019-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-04-10** Passed to engrossment
+- **2019-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-04-11** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-04-11** Record vote
+- **2019-04-11** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-04-11** Reported engrossed
+- **2019-04-11** Received from the House `introduction`
+- **2019-04-24** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-04-24** Referred to Water & Rural Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-06** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-05-06** Meeting cancelled
+- **2019-05-09** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-05-09** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-05-09** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-05-10** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-05-13** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-05-13** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
+- **2019-05-13** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2019-05-22** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
+- **2019-05-22** Laid before the Senate
+- **2019-05-22** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
+- **2019-05-22** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-22** Three day rule suspended
+- **2019-05-22** Record vote
+- **2019-05-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-22** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-22** Record vote
+- **2019-05-23** Senate passage reported
+- **2019-05-24** Reported enrolled
+- **2019-05-26** Signed in the House
+- **2019-05-27** Signed in the Senate
+- **2019-05-28** 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/7b23eabc-a2ce-4d1d-a08f-377e1d11398b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+