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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to the licensing and regulation of certain pharmacies; providing an administrative penalty."
+description: "Relating to the licensing and regulation of certain pharmacies; providing an administrative penalty."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "HB 3496"
+citation: "Texas HB 3496 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Financial--General (I0365)", "Occupational Regulation--Health Occupations (I0540)", "PHARMACIES & PHARMACISTS (S1192)", "PHARMACY", "TEXAS STATE BOARD OF (V0022)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Creighton", "Sheffield"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 52
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-03-06"
+last_action: "2019-06-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a3f111d-56b1-4ce8-8e7c-574da9abccdd"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB03400_HB03499/HB 3496.xml"
+source_hash: "b2197ef3a78a9ba0ca8e55ab62a48bbf22956d251d54526c71c0e10934cf2f65"
+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 3496 (86) — Relating to the licensing and regulation of certain pharmacies; providing an administrative penalty.
+
+## 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/HB03496I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **140–7** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Creighton — primary (person)
+- Sheffield — primary (person)
+- Nichols — cosponsor (person)
+- Schwertner — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-03-06** Filed `filing`
+- **2019-03-18** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-03-18** Referred to Public Health `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
+- **2019-04-24** 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
+- **2019-05-06** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2019-05-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-07** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-05-07** Passed to engrossment as amended
+- **2019-05-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-08** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-08** Record vote
+- **2019-05-08** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-08** Reported engrossed
+- **2019-05-08** Received from the House `introduction`
+- **2019-05-10** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-05-10** 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
+- **2019-05-19** Co-sponsor authorized
+- **2019-05-20** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-05-20** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2019-05-22** Placed on intent calendar
+- **2019-05-22** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2019-05-22** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **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
+- **2019-05-22** Senate passage reported
+- **2019-05-22** Reported enrolled
+- **2019-05-23** Signed in the House
+- **2019-05-24** Signed in the Senate
+- **2019-05-25** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-10** Effective on 1/1/20 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3a3f111d-56b1-4ce8-8e7c-574da9abccdd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+