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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to the Judicial Campaign Fairness Act."
+description: "Relating to the Judicial Campaign Fairness Act."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "HB 3233"
+citation: "Texas HB 3233 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Courts--Judges (I0140)", "Elections--Campaign Financing (I0290)", "Elections--Candidates (I0280)", "Ethics (I0345)", "POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS (S0114)", "ETHICS COMMISSION", "TEXAS (V9939)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Fallon", "Klick"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 45
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-03-05"
+last_action: "2019-06-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3569b83b-4bec-416a-bc89-eb301da40c96"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB03200_HB03299/HB 3233.xml"
+source_hash: "c2128c0ab6b04e4a0b9dec0a27127ffbe290381a7d3490758621bd28bc11091b"
+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 3233 (86) — Relating to the Judicial Campaign Fairness Act.
+
+## 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/HB03233I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **139–3** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Fallon — primary (person)
+- Klick — primary (person)
+- Hunter — cosponsor (person)
+- Oliverson — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul — cosponsor (person)
+- Sanford — cosponsor (person)
+- Swanson — cosponsor (person)
+- Thompson, Ed — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-03-05** Filed `filing`
+- **2019-03-13** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-03-13** Referred to Elections `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-01** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-04-01** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2019-04-01** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-04-08** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-04-08** Committee substitute considered in committee
+- **2019-04-08** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-15** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-04-16** Committee report distributed
+- **2019-04-16** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2019-04-26** Considered in Calendars
+- **2019-04-30** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2019-05-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-02** Passed to engrossment
+- **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`
+- **2019-05-16** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-05-16** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-05-16** Testimony taken in committee
+- **2019-05-16** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-05-16** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
+- **2019-05-16** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2019-05-19** Placed on intent calendar
+- **2019-05-19** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2019-05-19** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
+- **2019-05-19** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-19** Three day rule suspended
+- **2019-05-19** Record vote
+- **2019-05-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-19** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-19** Record vote
+- **2019-05-20** Senate passage reported
+- **2019-05-20** Reported enrolled
+- **2019-05-21** Signed in the House
+- **2019-05-21** Signed in the Senate
+- **2019-05-22** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-02** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-02** Effective immediately
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3569b83b-4bec-416a-bc89-eb301da40c96`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+