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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to certain restrictions on contributions and expenditures from political funds by a lobbyist."
+description: "Relating to certain restrictions on contributions and expenditures from political funds by a lobbyist."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "HB 2677"
+citation: "Texas HB 2677 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Elections--Campaign Financing (I0290)", "Ethics (I0345)", "LOBBYISTS & LOBBYING (S3141)", "POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS (S0114)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Button", "Goldman", "Hughes"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 46
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-02-27"
+last_action: "2019-06-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9c95bd1a-fef7-42cf-813d-9ff8554f736d"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB02600_HB02699/HB 2677.xml"
+source_hash: "12c10713ae6d4adf4198be4bf6cc13b541b4c0fd3a6f62d22056a731e5a12cdd"
+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 2677 (86) — Relating to certain restrictions on contributions and expenditures from political funds by a lobbyist.
+
+## 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/HB02677I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **140–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Button — primary (person)
+- Goldman — primary (person)
+- Hughes — primary (person)
+- Capriglione — cosponsor (person)
+- Hefner — cosponsor (person)
+- Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
+- Paddie — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul — cosponsor (person)
+- Sanford — cosponsor (person)
+- Sheffield — cosponsor (person)
+- Swanson — cosponsor (person)
+- Thompson, Ed — cosponsor (person)
+- Tinderholt — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-27** Filed `filing`
+- **2019-03-11** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-03-11** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-17** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-04-17** Committee substitute considered in committee
+- **2019-04-17** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2019-04-17** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-04-18** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2019-04-18** Committee substitute considered in committee
+- **2019-04-18** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-25** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-04-25** Committee report distributed
+- **2019-04-26** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2019-04-29** Considered in Calendars
+- **2019-05-01** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2019-05-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-02** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-05-02** Passed to engrossment as amended
+- **2019-05-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-03** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-03** Record vote
+- **2019-05-04** Reported engrossed
+- **2019-05-06** Received from the House `introduction`
+- **2019-05-07** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-05-07** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-13** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-05-13** Considered in public hearing
+- **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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9c95bd1a-fef7-42cf-813d-9ff8554f736d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+