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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to services provided during and following a disaster."
+description: "Relating to services provided during and following a disaster."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "HB 2320"
+citation: "Texas HB 2320 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Disaster Preparedness & Relief (I0211)", "Utilities--General (I0830)", "Utilities--Telecommunications (I0828)", "EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT", "DIVISION OF THE DEPT. OF PUBLIC SAFETY (V0318)", "PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION (V0023)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Paul", "Taylor"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 47
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-03-06"
+last_action: "2019-05-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ac6ffe0-1259-4865-9eb2-94c5340098a6"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB02300_HB02399/HB 2320.xml"
+source_hash: "bf44756c829e0137ae77ce0cb0b3b15fc461e6ed9090bd082087bb10e16ff521"
+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 2320 (86) — Relating to services provided during and following a disaster.
+
+## 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/HB02320I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **146–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Paul — primary (person)
+- Taylor — primary (person)
+- Allen — cosponsor (person)
+- Allison — cosponsor (person)
+- Beckley — cosponsor (person)
+- Bell, Cecil — cosponsor (person)
+- Bernal — cosponsor (person)
+- Blanco — cosponsor (person)
+- Bohac — cosponsor (person)
+- Bucy — cosponsor (person)
+- Cain — cosponsor (person)
+- Capriglione — cosponsor (person)
+- Clardy — cosponsor (person)
+- Collier — cosponsor (person)
+- Cortez — cosponsor (person)
+- Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
+- Dominguez — cosponsor (person)
+- Farrar — cosponsor (person)
+- Goldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hernandez — cosponsor (person)
+- Lang — cosponsor (person)
+- Leman — cosponsor (person)
+- Longoria — cosponsor (person)
+- Lucio — cosponsor (person)
+- Lucio III — cosponsor (person)
+- Martinez — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Muñoz, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Oliverson — cosponsor (person)
+- Parker — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosenthal — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephenson — cosponsor (person)
+- Swanson — cosponsor (person)
+- Thompson, Ed — cosponsor (person)
+- Walle — cosponsor (person)
+- White — cosponsor (person)
+- Wu — cosponsor (person)
+- Zwiener — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-03-06** Filed `filing`
+- **2019-03-11** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-03-11** Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-20** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-03-20** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2019-03-20** 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** Reported engrossed
+- **2019-04-11** Received from the House `introduction`
+- **2019-04-17** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-04-17** Referred to Business & Commerce `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-07** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-05-07** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-05-07** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-05-09** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-05-10** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-05-10** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
+- **2019-05-10** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2019-05-14** Placed on intent calendar
+- **2019-05-15** Co-sponsor authorized
+- **2019-05-15** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2019-05-15** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
+- **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 reported
+- **2019-05-16** Reported enrolled
+- **2019-05-17** Signed in the House
+- **2019-05-17** Signed in the Senate
+- **2019-05-17** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-05-29** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-05-29** 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/1ac6ffe0-1259-4865-9eb2-94c5340098a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+