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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to establishing a guardianship abuse, fraud, and exploitation deterrence program."
+description: "Relating to establishing a guardianship abuse, fraud, and exploitation deterrence program."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "SB 31"
+citation: "Texas SB 31 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Courts--General (I0160)", "Probate--Guardians & Related Trusts (I0589)", "FRAUD (S0166)", "GUARDIANS & WARDS (S0301)", "COURT ADMINISTRATION", "OFFICE OF (V8690)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Birdwell", "Creighton", "Guillen", "Huffman", "Hughes", "Lucio", "Nelson", "Perry", "Smithee", "Zaffirini"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 49
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2018-11-12"
+last_action: "2019-06-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4015d5f0-9c9e-4c05-a7dc-77264dd582d2"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00001_SB00099/SB 31.xml"
+source_hash: "ad556e4e5f94c098bcc6a817ce05621b1190196810e94947c3d59b21629153a4"
+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 31 (86) — Relating to establishing a guardianship abuse, fraud, and exploitation deterrence program.
+
+## 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/SB00031I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **140–2** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Birdwell — primary (person)
+- Creighton — primary (person)
+- Guillen — primary (person)
+- Huffman — primary (person)
+- Hughes — primary (person)
+- Lucio — primary (person)
+- Nelson — primary (person)
+- Perry — primary (person)
+- Smithee — primary (person)
+- Zaffirini — primary (person)
+- Fallon — cosponsor (person)
+- Hall — cosponsor (person)
+- Hinojosa — cosponsor (person)
+- Kolkhorst — cosponsor (person)
+- Miles — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-11-12** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
+- **2018-11-12** Filed `filing`
+- **2019-02-01** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-02-01** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-12** Co-author authorized
+- **2019-02-26** Co-author authorized
+- **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
+- **2019-03-11** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-04-01** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-04-03** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-03** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2019-04-04** Co-author authorized
+- **2019-04-08** Placed on intent calendar
+- **2019-04-09** Co-author authorized
+- **2019-04-09** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2019-04-09** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
+- **2019-04-09** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-04-09** Three day rule suspended
+- **2019-04-09** Record vote
+- **2019-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-04-09** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-04-09** Record vote
+- **2019-04-09** Reported engrossed
+- **2019-04-10** Received from the Senate `introduction`
+- **2019-04-11** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-04-11** Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-18** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2019-04-18** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
+- **2019-05-02** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-05-02** 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`
+- **2019-06-14** Filed without the Governor's 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/4015d5f0-9c9e-4c05-a7dc-77264dd582d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+