Legislation: batch D — NY OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TX UT

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/tx/86/sb-1415.md

@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to the ownership, control, or operation of a franchised or nonfranchised dealer or dealership by certain motor vehicle manufacturers and distributors."
+description: "Relating to the ownership, control, or operation of a franchised or nonfranchised dealer or dealership by certain motor vehicle manufacturers and distributors."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "SB 1415"
+citation: "Texas SB 1415 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Occupational Regulation--Other Trades & Professions (I0541)", "Vehicles & Traffic--General (I0865)", "MOTOR VEHICLE DEALERS (S1214)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Geren", "Hancock"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 45
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-03-01"
+last_action: "2019-06-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e42ba05-89b7-4aa3-851c-ca7cb70e29ed"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB01400_SB01499/SB 1415.xml"
+source_hash: "ed078f49ccac10db364ec3f927286d06d2b152bc8daec02da306a5717e948ee8"
+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 1415 (86) — Relating to the ownership, control, or operation of a franchised or nonfranchised dealer or dealership by certain motor vehicle manufacturers and distributors.
+
+## 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/SB01415I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **142–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Geren — primary (person)
+- Hancock — 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 Business & Commerce `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-04** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-04-04** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-04-04** Testimony taken in committee
+- **2019-04-04** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-04-09** Considered in public hearing
+- **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
+- **2019-04-17** Placed on intent calendar
+- **2019-04-23** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2019-04-23** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-04-23** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
+- **2019-04-23** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-04-23** Three day rule suspended
+- **2019-04-23** Record vote
+- **2019-04-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-04-23** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-04-23** Record vote
+- **2019-04-23** Reported engrossed
+- **2019-04-24** Received from the Senate `introduction`
+- **2019-04-26** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-04-26** Referred to Licensing & Administrative Procedures `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-30** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-04-30** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
+- **2019-05-01** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-05-01** Committee report distributed
+- **2019-05-02** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2019-05-14** Considered in Calendars
+- **2019-05-16** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2019-05-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-16** Passed to 3rd reading
+- **2019-05-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-17** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-17** Record vote
+- **2019-05-17** House passage reported
+- **2019-05-17** Reported enrolled
+- **2019-05-20** Signed in the Senate
+- **2019-05-21** Signed in the House
+- **2019-05-21** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-04** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-04** 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/5e42ba05-89b7-4aa3-851c-ca7cb70e29ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+