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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to the admission, examination, and discharge of a person for mental health services."
+description: "Relating to the admission, examination, and discharge of a person for mental health services."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "SB 1238"
+citation: "Texas SB 1238 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Mental Health & Substance Abuse (I0019)", "PHYSICIANS (S1282)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Collier", "Johnson", "Rose", "Thompson, Senfronia"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 53
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-02-27"
+last_action: "2019-06-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4591f41c-3ba7-4056-995c-55552ceea706"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB01200_SB01299/SB 1238.xml"
+source_hash: "383a152bbf886530fc8645c662a2371124aac003aa235e6b2bf2dccb3aed4440"
+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 SB 1238 (86) — Relating to the admission, examination, and discharge of a person for mental health services.
+
+## 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/SB01238I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **107–40** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Collier — primary (person)
+- Johnson — primary (person)
+- Rose — primary (person)
+- Thompson, Senfronia — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-27** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
+- **2019-02-27** Filed `filing`
+- **2019-03-07** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-03-07** Referred to Health & Human Services `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-19** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-03-19** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-03-19** Testimony taken in committee
+- **2019-03-19** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-03-27** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-04-01** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-01** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2019-04-03** Placed on intent calendar
+- **2019-04-16** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2019-04-16** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
+- **2019-04-16** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-04-16** Three day rule suspended
+- **2019-04-16** Record vote
+- **2019-04-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-04-16** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-04-16** Record vote
+- **2019-04-16** Reported engrossed
+- **2019-04-17** Received from the Senate `introduction`
+- **2019-04-23** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-04-23** Referred to Public Health `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-29** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2019-04-29** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
+- **2019-04-30** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-04-30** Committee report distributed
+- **2019-04-30** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2019-05-17** Considered in Calendars
+- **2019-05-20** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2019-05-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-20** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-05-20** Record vote
+- **2019-05-20** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-20** Passed to 3rd reading as amended
+- **2019-05-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-21** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-05-21** Passed as amended `passage`
+- **2019-05-21** Record vote
+- **2019-05-21** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-21** House passage as amended reported
+- **2019-05-23** House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
+- **2019-05-23** Read
+- **2019-05-23** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
+- **2019-05-23** Record vote
+- **2019-05-23** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported
+- **2019-05-24** Reported enrolled
+- **2019-05-25** Signed in the House
+- **2019-05-25** Signed in the Senate
+- **2019-05-25** 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/4591f41c-3ba7-4056-995c-55552ceea706`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+