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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to the protection of expressive activities at public institutions of higher education."
+description: "Relating to the protection of expressive activities at public institutions of higher education."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "SB 18"
+citation: "Texas SB 18 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Civil Remedies & Liabilities (I0065)", "Education--Higher--Institutions & Programs (I0223)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cain", "Geren", "Goldman", "Huffman", "Nelson", "Oliverson", "Phelan"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 80
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-25"
+last_action: "2019-06-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/91730452-24ed-4015-a448-f5858c0f906e"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00001_SB00099/SB 18.xml"
+source_hash: "a6cecd0a09a1f3ec94b9fd88ba41f083355ca71bcc225593ac54806722cf1aca"
+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 18 (86) — Relating to the protection of expressive activities at public institutions of higher education.
+
+## 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/SB00018I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- other — **106–37** (fail) · upper
+- passage — **86–58** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cain — primary (person)
+- Geren — primary (person)
+- Goldman — primary (person)
+- Huffman — primary (person)
+- Nelson — primary (person)
+- Oliverson — primary (person)
+- Phelan — primary (person)
+- Allison — cosponsor (person)
+- Anderson, Charles "Doc" — cosponsor (person)
+- Bell, Cecil — cosponsor (person)
+- Bell, Keith — cosponsor (person)
+- Bettencourt — cosponsor (person)
+- Biedermann — cosponsor (person)
+- Bohac — cosponsor (person)
+- Bonnen, Greg — cosponsor (person)
+- Buckingham — cosponsor (person)
+- Buckley — cosponsor (person)
+- Burns — cosponsor (person)
+- Burrows — cosponsor (person)
+- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
+- Capriglione — cosponsor (person)
+- Clardy — cosponsor (person)
+- Craddick — cosponsor (person)
+- Creighton — cosponsor (person)
+- Cyrier — cosponsor (person)
+- Darby — cosponsor (person)
+- Dean — cosponsor (person)
+- Fallon — cosponsor (person)
+- Flynn — cosponsor (person)
+- Frank — cosponsor (person)
+- Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Hefner — cosponsor (person)
+- Holland — cosponsor (person)
+- Hunter — cosponsor (person)
+- King, Phil — cosponsor (person)
+- Klick — cosponsor (person)
+- Krause — cosponsor (person)
+- Lambert — cosponsor (person)
+- Landgraf — cosponsor (person)
+- Lang — cosponsor (person)
+- Leach — cosponsor (person)
+- Leman — cosponsor (person)
+- Lozano — cosponsor (person)
+- Lucio — cosponsor (person)
+- Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Morrison — cosponsor (person)
+- Murphy — cosponsor (person)
+- Murr — cosponsor (person)
+- Paddie — cosponsor (person)
+- Parker — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul — cosponsor (person)
+- Price — cosponsor (person)
+- Sanford — cosponsor (person)
+- Schaefer — cosponsor (person)
+- Schwertner — cosponsor (person)
+- Shaheen — cosponsor (person)
+- Shine — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Smithee — cosponsor (person)
+- Springer — cosponsor (person)
+- Stucky — cosponsor (person)
+- Swanson — cosponsor (person)
+- Thompson, Ed — cosponsor (person)
+- Tinderholt — cosponsor (person)
+- Toth — cosponsor (person)
+- VanDeaver — cosponsor (person)
+- White — cosponsor (person)
+- Wray — cosponsor (person)
+- Zaffirini — cosponsor (person)
+- Zedler — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-25** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
+- **2019-02-25** Filed `filing`
+- **2019-03-01** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-03-01** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-07** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-03-07** Meeting cancelled
+- **2019-03-11** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-03-11** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-03-11** Testimony taken in committee
+- **2019-03-13** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-13** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2019-03-18** Co-author authorized
+- **2019-03-18** Placed on intent calendar
+- **2019-03-20** Co-author authorized
+- **2019-03-20** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2019-03-20** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
+- **2019-03-20** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-03-20** Three day rule suspended
+- **2019-03-20** Record vote
+- **2019-03-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-20** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-03-20** Record vote
+- **2019-03-20** Reported engrossed
+- **2019-03-21** Received from the Senate `introduction`
+- **2019-03-28** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-03-28** Referred to Higher Education `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-25** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2019-04-25** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
+- **2019-04-26** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-04-26** Committee report distributed
+- **2019-04-29** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2019-05-15** Considered in Calendars
+- **2019-05-17** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2019-05-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-17** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-05-17** Record vote
+- **2019-05-17** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-17** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-05-17** Record vote
+- **2019-05-17** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-17** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-05-17** Record vote
+- **2019-05-17** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-17** Passed to 3rd reading as amended
+- **2019-05-17** Record vote
+- **2019-05-17** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-17** Constitutional three day rule suspended
+- **2019-05-17** Record vote
+- **2019-05-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-17** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-17** Record vote
+- **2019-05-17** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-19** House passage as amended reported
+- **2019-05-20** House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
+- **2019-05-20** Read
+- **2019-05-20** Senate refuses to concur
+- **2019-05-20** Senate requests conference committee
+- **2019-05-20** Senate appoints conferees
+- **2019-05-20** Senate refuses to concur-reported
+- **2019-05-20** Senate requests conference committee-reported
+- **2019-05-20** Senate appoints conferees-reported
+- **2019-05-22** House grants request for conference committee
+- **2019-05-22** House appoints conferees
+- **2019-05-22** House grants request for conf comm-reported
+- **2019-05-22** House appoints conferees-reported
+- **2019-05-23** Conference committee report filed
+- **2019-05-24** Conf. Comm. Report distributed
+- **2019-05-25** House adopts conference committee report
+- **2019-05-25** Record vote
+- **2019-05-25** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-25** House adopts conf. comm. report-reported
+- **2019-05-25** Senate adopts conference committee report
+- **2019-05-25** Record vote
+- **2019-05-25** Reported enrolled
+- **2019-05-26** Senate adopts conf. comm. report-reported
+- **2019-05-26** Signed in the Senate
+- **2019-05-26** Signed in the House
+- **2019-05-26** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-10** 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/91730452-24ed-4015-a448-f5858c0f906e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+