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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to payment card skimmers on motor fuel dispensers and to creating a payment fraud fusion center; imposing civil penalties; creating criminal offenses."
+description: "Relating to payment card skimmers on motor fuel dispensers and to creating a payment fraud fusion center; imposing civil penalties; creating criminal offenses."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "HB 2945"
+citation: "Texas HB 2945 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["TYLER", "CITY OF (G4219)", "Agriculture (I0020)", "Consumer Protection (I0080)", "Financial--General (I0365)", "Law Enforcement (I0510)", "CREDIT & DEBIT CARDS (S0388)", "FRAUD (S0166)", "AGRICULTURE", "DEPARTMENT OF (V0566)", "ATTORNEY GENERAL (V2811)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Goldman", "Longoria", "Perez", "Price", "Thompson, Senfronia", "Zaffirini"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 54
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2019-03-04"
+last_action: "2019-06-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1626fa21-995b-44e5-8bd3-d58541aaa336"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB02900_HB02999/HB 2945.xml"
+source_hash: "f498560249f8993e5d5a5ffcdeeec2dc2a7d530694b3172a5ab09a408d5bd2f7"
+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 2945 (86) — Relating to payment card skimmers on motor fuel dispensers and to creating a payment fraud fusion center; imposing civil penalties; creating criminal offenses.
+
+## 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/HB02945I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- other — **145–0** (fail) · upper
+- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- passage — **141–2** (pass) · lower
+- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- passage — **145–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Goldman — primary (person)
+- Longoria — primary (person)
+- Perez — primary (person)
+- Price — primary (person)
+- Thompson, Senfronia — primary (person)
+- Zaffirini — primary (person)
+- Allen — cosponsor (person)
+- Allison — cosponsor (person)
+- Anchia — cosponsor (person)
+- Anderson, Charles "Doc" — cosponsor (person)
+- Bell, Cecil — cosponsor (person)
+- Bernal — cosponsor (person)
+- Blanco — cosponsor (person)
+- Bohac — cosponsor (person)
+- Bowers — cosponsor (person)
+- Buckley — cosponsor (person)
+- Bucy — cosponsor (person)
+- Cain — cosponsor (person)
+- Calanni — cosponsor (person)
+- Canales — cosponsor (person)
+- Capriglione — cosponsor (person)
+- Clardy — cosponsor (person)
+- Coleman — cosponsor (person)
+- Collier — cosponsor (person)
+- Cortez — cosponsor (person)
+- Cyrier — cosponsor (person)
+- Davis, Sarah — cosponsor (person)
+- Dominguez — cosponsor (person)
+- Dutton — cosponsor (person)
+- Farrar — cosponsor (person)
+- Fierro — cosponsor (person)
+- Flynn — cosponsor (person)
+- Frullo — cosponsor (person)
+- Gervin-Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
+- González, Jessica — cosponsor (person)
+- González, Mary — cosponsor (person)
+- Goodwin — cosponsor (person)
+- Guerra — cosponsor (person)
+- Guillen — cosponsor (person)
+- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
+- Harless — cosponsor (person)
+- Hefner — cosponsor (person)
+- Hernandez — cosponsor (person)
+- Herrero — cosponsor (person)
+- Hinojosa — cosponsor (person)
+- Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- Israel — cosponsor (person)
+- Johnson, Jarvis — cosponsor (person)
+- Kacal — cosponsor (person)
+- Kuempel — cosponsor (person)
+- Lambert — cosponsor (person)
+- Leman — cosponsor (person)
+- Lopez — cosponsor (person)
+- Lozano — cosponsor (person)
+- Martinez — cosponsor (person)
+- Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
+- Meza — cosponsor (person)
+- Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Minjarez — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales — cosponsor (person)
+- Muñoz, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Neave — cosponsor (person)
+- Nevárez — cosponsor (person)
+- Ortega — cosponsor (person)
+- Pacheco — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul — cosponsor (person)
+- Ramos — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond — cosponsor (person)
+- Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)
+- Romero, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosenthal — cosponsor (person)
+- Schaefer — cosponsor (person)
+- Sheffield — cosponsor (person)
+- Sherman, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephenson — cosponsor (person)
+- Stucky — cosponsor (person)
+- Talarico — cosponsor (person)
+- Thompson, Ed — cosponsor (person)
+- Toth — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner, Chris — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner, John — cosponsor (person)
+- Vo — cosponsor (person)
+- Walle — cosponsor (person)
+- Wray — cosponsor (person)
+- Wu — cosponsor (person)
+- Zerwas — cosponsor (person)
+- Zwiener — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-03-04** Filed `filing`
+- **2019-03-12** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-03-12** Referred to Pensions, Investments & Financial Services `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-11** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-04-11** Committee substitute considered in committee
+- **2019-04-11** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2019-04-11** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-04-16** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2019-04-16** Committee substitute considered in committee
+- **2019-04-16** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-18** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-04-22** Committee report distributed
+- **2019-04-22** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2019-04-25** Considered in Calendars
+- **2019-04-29** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2019-05-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-01** Passed to engrossment
+- **2019-05-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-02** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-02** Record vote
+- **2019-05-02** Reported engrossed
+- **2019-05-02** Received from the House `introduction`
+- **2019-05-03** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-05-03** Referred to Business & Commerce `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-07** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-05-09** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-05-09** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
+- **2019-05-09** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2019-05-13** Placed on intent calendar
+- **2019-05-14** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2019-05-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-14** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2019-05-14** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-05-14** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-14** Passed to 3rd reading as amended
+- **2019-05-14** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-14** Three day rule suspended
+- **2019-05-14** Record vote
+- **2019-05-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-14** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-14** Record vote
+- **2019-05-15** Senate passage as amended reported
+- **2019-05-15** Senate Amendments distributed
+- **2019-05-15** Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
+- **2019-05-22** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
+- **2019-05-22** Record vote
+- **2019-05-22** Text of Senate Amendment(s)
+- **2019-05-22** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported
+- **2019-05-23** Reported enrolled
+- **2019-05-24** Signed in the House
+- **2019-05-25** Signed in the Senate
+- **2019-05-26** 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/1626fa21-995b-44e5-8bd3-d58541aaa336`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+