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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to highway maintenance or construction vehicles, certain service vehicles, and escort flag vehicles, including the use of certain lighting equipment on those vehicles."
+description: "Relating to highway maintenance or construction vehicles, certain service vehicles, and escort flag vehicles, including the use of certain lighting equipment on those vehicles."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "HB 61"
+citation: "Texas HB 61 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Vehicles & Traffic--Equipment (I0855)", "Vehicles & Traffic--Rules of Road (I0860)", "LIGHTING (S0126)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Nichols", "White"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 54
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-11-12"
+last_action: "2019-05-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c945819e-1afa-40a9-9a55-50d33fadf97c"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00001_HB00099/HB 61.xml"
+source_hash: "16477d945f7fb5ba615de003bc16a380b0a90c9d3280f90a0b9a7564610d804a"
+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 61 (86) — Relating to highway maintenance or construction vehicles, certain service vehicles, and escort flag vehicles, including the use of certain lighting equipment on those vehicles.
+
+## 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/HB00061I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **143–4** (pass) · lower
+- passage — **139–0** (pass) · lower
+- other — **139–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Nichols — primary (person)
+- White — primary (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 Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-27** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-02-27** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2019-02-27** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-03-06** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-03-06** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
+- **2019-03-11** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-03-12** Committee report distributed
+- **2019-03-12** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2019-03-13** Considered in Calendars
+- **2019-03-21** Considered in Calendars
+- **2019-03-26** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2019-03-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-26** Passed to engrossment
+- **2019-03-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-27** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-03-27** Record vote
+- **2019-03-27** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-03-27** Reported engrossed
+- **2019-04-01** Received from the House `introduction`
+- **2019-04-02** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-04-02** Referred to Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-10** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-04-10** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-04-10** Testimony taken in committee
+- **2019-04-11** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-11** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
+- **2019-04-11** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2019-04-16** Placed on intent calendar
+- **2019-04-17** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
+- **2019-04-17** Laid before the Senate
+- **2019-04-17** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
+- **2019-04-17** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-04-17** Three day rule suspended
+- **2019-04-17** Record vote
+- **2019-04-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-04-17** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-04-17** Record vote
+- **2019-04-18** Senate passage as amended reported
+- **2019-04-18** Senate Amendments distributed
+- **2019-04-18** Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
+- **2019-04-29** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
+- **2019-04-29** Record vote
+- **2019-04-29** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-04-29** Text of Senate Amendment(s)
+- **2019-04-29** Reported enrolled
+- **2019-04-30** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported
+- **2019-04-30** Signed in the House
+- **2019-04-30** Signed in the Senate
+- **2019-05-01** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-05-07** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-05-07** 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/c945819e-1afa-40a9-9a55-50d33fadf97c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
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