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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to the eligibility for certain occupational licenses and the use of a person's criminal history as grounds for certain actions related to the license."
+description: "Relating to the eligibility for certain occupational licenses and the use of a person's criminal history as grounds for certain actions related to the license."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "SB 1531"
+citation: "Texas SB 1531 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Animals (I0035)", "Criminal Procedure--General (I0208)", "Occupational Regulation--Health Occupations (I0540)", "Occupational Regulation--Other Trades & Professions (I0541)", "AUCTIONS & AUCTIONEERS (S0034)", "CRIMINAL RECORDS (S0008)", "ELECTRICIANS & ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS (S0288)", "MIDWIVES & MIDWIFERY (S0762)", "PODIATRISTS & PODIATRY (S0162)", "LICENSING & REGULATION", "TEXAS COMMISSION OF (V0383)", "LICENSING & REGULATION", "TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF (V8529)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hancock", "White"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 44
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-03-05"
+last_action: "2019-06-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ddfe530-87c5-4bd8-81ec-02d8ee2b3234"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB01500_SB01599/SB 1531.xml"
+source_hash: "2cf8928fef828ffeff1952af62963d8d1b972ba1b9b64a1e47c19a688b75620c"
+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 1531 (86) — Relating to the eligibility for certain occupational licenses and the use of a person's criminal history as grounds for certain actions related to the license.
+
+## 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/SB01531I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **137–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hancock — primary (person)
+- White — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-03-05** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
+- **2019-03-05** Filed `filing`
+- **2019-03-14** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-03-14** Referred to Business & Commerce `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-26** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-03-26** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-03-26** Testimony taken in committee
+- **2019-03-26** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-03-28** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-04-02** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-02** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
+- **2019-04-02** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2019-04-11** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
+- **2019-04-11** Laid before the Senate
+- **2019-04-11** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
+- **2019-04-11** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-04-11** Three day rule suspended
+- **2019-04-11** Record vote
+- **2019-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-04-11** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-04-11** Record vote
+- **2019-04-11** Reported engrossed
+- **2019-04-11** Received from the Senate `introduction`
+- **2019-04-12** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-04-12** Referred to Corrections `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-23** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2019-04-23** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
+- **2019-04-24** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-04-25** Committee report distributed
+- **2019-04-25** 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/6ddfe530-87c5-4bd8-81ec-02d8ee2b3234`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
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