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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to invoices and payments under certain state contracts for outside legal services."
+description: "Relating to invoices and payments under certain state contracts for outside legal services."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "SB 1370"
+citation: "Texas SB 1370 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--State (I0362)", "Lawyers (I0515)", "State Agencies", "Boards & Commissions (I0749)", "ATTORNEY GENERAL (V2811)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ashby", "Nichols"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 42
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-03-01"
+last_action: "2019-06-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8df31bb0-8623-4ad9-87b2-f1f02427ce59"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB01300_SB01399/SB 1370.xml"
+source_hash: "4f74ab0a0c94ac3367d85a40b53a302d15d94533d3d967c618b01462184571d3"
+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 1370 (86) — Relating to invoices and payments under certain state contracts for outside legal 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/SB01370I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **130–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ashby — primary (person)
+- Nichols — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-03-01** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
+- **2019-03-01** Filed `filing`
+- **2019-03-14** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-03-14** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-15** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-04-15** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-04-17** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-17** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
+- **2019-04-17** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2019-04-24** Placed on intent calendar
+- **2019-04-25** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2019-04-25** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
+- **2019-04-25** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-04-25** Three day rule suspended
+- **2019-04-25** Record vote
+- **2019-04-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-04-25** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-04-25** Record vote
+- **2019-04-25** Reported engrossed
+- **2019-04-25** Received from the Senate `introduction`
+- **2019-04-29** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-04-29** Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-06** Withdrawn from schedule
+- **2019-05-02** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2019-05-02** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
+- **2019-05-06** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-05-06** Committee report distributed
+- **2019-05-07** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2019-05-13** Considered in Calendars
+- **2019-05-15** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2019-05-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-15** Passed to 3rd reading
+- **2019-05-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-16** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-16** Record vote
+- **2019-05-16** House passage reported
+- **2019-05-16** Reported enrolled
+- **2019-05-17** Signed in the Senate
+- **2019-05-20** Signed in the House
+- **2019-05-20** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-02** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-02** 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/8df31bb0-8623-4ad9-87b2-f1f02427ce59`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+