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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to the regulation of the practice of physical therapy."
+description: "Relating to the regulation of the practice of physical therapy."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "HB 29"
+citation: "Texas HB 29 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Occupational Regulation--Health Occupations (I0540)", "PHYSICAL THERAPISTS (S6112)", "BOARD OF PHYSICAL THERAPY EXAMINERS", "TEXAS (V0946)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Coleman", "Hughes", "Klick", "Minjarez", "Moody", "Parker"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 54
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2018-11-12"
+last_action: "2019-06-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5f732fa-9ef4-486d-a013-eb5f5e23cb4f"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00001_HB00099/HB 29.xml"
+source_hash: "0a56b96342da2ed5a3d6168e48f96b6d78083efe8810e9b3b350e387eb7c3bbd"
+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 29 (86) — Relating to the regulation of the practice of physical therapy.
+
+## 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/HB00029I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **136–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Coleman — primary (person)
+- Hughes — primary (person)
+- Klick — primary (person)
+- Minjarez — primary (person)
+- Moody — primary (person)
+- Parker — primary (person)
+- Bernal — cosponsor (person)
+- Biedermann — cosponsor (person)
+- Darby — cosponsor (person)
+- Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
+- Farrar — cosponsor (person)
+- Flynn — cosponsor (person)
+- Gervin-Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Goldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Hernandez — cosponsor (person)
+- Herrero — cosponsor (person)
+- Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- Israel — cosponsor (person)
+- King, Phil — cosponsor (person)
+- Krause — cosponsor (person)
+- Lambert — cosponsor (person)
+- Landgraf — cosponsor (person)
+- Lopez — cosponsor (person)
+- Martinez — cosponsor (person)
+- Menéndez — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Pacheco — cosponsor (person)
+- Ramos — cosponsor (person)
+- Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosenthal — cosponsor (person)
+- Sanford — cosponsor (person)
+- Schaefer — cosponsor (person)
+- Swanson — cosponsor (person)
+- Thompson, Ed — cosponsor (person)
+- Tinderholt — cosponsor (person)
+- VanDeaver — cosponsor (person)
+- Walle — cosponsor (person)
+- White — cosponsor (person)
+- Zedler — cosponsor (person)
+- Zwiener — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-11-12** Filed `filing`
+- **2019-02-11** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-02-11** Referred to Public Health `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-13** Referred directly to subcommittee by chair
+- **2019-04-04** Scheduled for public hearing in s/c on . . .
+- **2019-04-04** Considered by s/c in public hearing
+- **2019-04-04** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in subcommittee
+- **2019-04-04** Left pending in subcommittee
+- **2019-04-24** Recalled from subcommittee
+- **2019-04-24** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-04-24** Committee substitute considered in committee
+- **2019-04-24** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-29** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-04-30** Committee report distributed
+- **2019-04-30** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2019-05-03** Considered in Calendars
+- **2019-05-07** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2019-05-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-08** Passed to engrossment
+- **2019-05-08** Record vote
+- **2019-05-08** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-09** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-09** Record vote
+- **2019-05-09** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-09** Reported engrossed
+- **2019-05-09** Received from the House `introduction`
+- **2019-05-13** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-05-13** Referred to Business & Commerce `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-15** Posting rule suspended
+- **2019-05-16** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-05-16** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-05-16** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-05-17** Co-sponsor authorized
+- **2019-05-17** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-05-20** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-05-20** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
+- **2019-05-20** 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`
+- **2019-06-14** 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/f5f732fa-9ef4-486d-a013-eb5f5e23cb4f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+