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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to emergency and disaster management, response, and recovery."
+description: "Relating to emergency and disaster management, response, and recovery."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "HB 2340"
+citation: "Texas HB 2340 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Congress (I0085)", "Disaster Preparedness & Relief (I0211)", "Education--Higher--Institutions & Programs (I0223)", "State Agencies", "Boards & Commissions (I0749)", "EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT", "DIVISION OF THE DEPT. OF PUBLIC SAFETY (V0318)", "STATE-FEDERAL RELATIONS", "OFFICE OF (V0431)", "UNMANNED AIRCRAFT STUDY GROUP (V1236)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bucy", "Calanni", "Dominguez", "Guillen", "Johnson", "Murphy"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 51
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-03-08"
+last_action: "2019-05-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/09d7b7ad-ab44-41d9-bbdb-2bed7e2d97a7"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB02300_HB02399/HB 2340.xml"
+source_hash: "3fefcae9fcc9ac425ae4d0a5b192eab43f84ced8c78c1cd2be7ffffce2fc16bd"
+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 2340 (86) — Relating to emergency and disaster management, response, and recovery.
+
+## 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/HB02340I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **145–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bucy — primary (person)
+- Calanni — primary (person)
+- Dominguez — primary (person)
+- Guillen — primary (person)
+- Johnson — primary (person)
+- Murphy — primary (person)
+- Allen — cosponsor (person)
+- Allison — cosponsor (person)
+- Anchia — cosponsor (person)
+- Beckley — cosponsor (person)
+- Blanco — cosponsor (person)
+- Bohac — cosponsor (person)
+- Bowers — cosponsor (person)
+- Cain — cosponsor (person)
+- Capriglione — cosponsor (person)
+- Cole — cosponsor (person)
+- Collier — cosponsor (person)
+- Cortez — cosponsor (person)
+- Farrar — cosponsor (person)
+- Fierro — cosponsor (person)
+- Goldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hernandez — cosponsor (person)
+- Hunter — cosponsor (person)
+- Israel — cosponsor (person)
+- Johnson, Julie — cosponsor (person)
+- Leman — cosponsor (person)
+- Longoria — cosponsor (person)
+- Lopez — cosponsor (person)
+- Lozano — cosponsor (person)
+- Lucio III — cosponsor (person)
+- Martinez — cosponsor (person)
+- Martinez Fischer — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Minjarez — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales — cosponsor (person)
+- Morrison — cosponsor (person)
+- Muñoz, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Neave — cosponsor (person)
+- Pacheco — cosponsor (person)
+- Parker — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul — cosponsor (person)
+- Perez — cosponsor (person)
+- Ramos — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosenthal — cosponsor (person)
+- Sherman, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Swanson — cosponsor (person)
+- Thierry — cosponsor (person)
+- Thompson, Ed — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner, John — cosponsor (person)
+- Walle — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Wu — cosponsor (person)
+- Zedler — cosponsor (person)
+- Zwiener — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-03-08** 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** Committee substitute considered in committee
+- **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** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-04-10** Passed to engrossment as amended
+- **2019-04-10** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
+- **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`
+- **2019-04-24** 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
+- **2019-05-15** Placed on intent calendar
+- **2019-05-16** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2019-05-16** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
+- **2019-05-16** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-16** Three day rule suspended
+- **2019-05-16** Record vote
+- **2019-05-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-16** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-16** Record vote
+- **2019-05-16** 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/09d7b7ad-ab44-41d9-bbdb-2bed7e2d97a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
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