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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to locations, terms, sessions, and procedures for conducting court proceedings."
+description: "Relating to locations, terms, sessions, and procedures for conducting court proceedings."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "SB 40"
+citation: "Texas SB 40 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Courts--Appellate (I0125)", "Courts--County & Statutory (I0115)", "Courts--District (I0120)", "Courts--Judges (I0140)", "Courts--Justice (I0110)", "Courts--Municipal (I0100)", "Disaster Preparedness & Relief (I0211)", "SUPREME COURT (V0311)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bonnen, Greg", "Calanni", "Leach", "Murr", "Oliverson", "Zaffirini"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 45
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2018-11-12"
+last_action: "2019-06-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0642d478-8973-4b80-b181-0f47cf3150d3"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00001_SB00099/SB 40.xml"
+source_hash: "ba792a4071699ad05ef438a61a728badb065126196ad7baba7be46ea260a5133"
+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 40 (86) — Relating to locations, terms, sessions, and procedures for conducting court proceedings.
+
+## 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/SB00040I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **146–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bonnen, Greg — primary (person)
+- Calanni — primary (person)
+- Leach — primary (person)
+- Murr — primary (person)
+- Oliverson — primary (person)
+- Zaffirini — primary (person)
+- Lucio — 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`
+- **2019-02-28** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-02-28** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-02-28** Testimony taken in committee
+- **2019-02-28** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-03-04** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-03-11** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-11** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
+- **2019-03-11** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2019-03-12** Placed on intent calendar
+- **2019-03-18** Co-author authorized
+- **2019-03-18** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2019-03-18** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
+- **2019-03-18** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-03-18** Three day rule suspended
+- **2019-03-18** Record vote
+- **2019-03-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-18** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-03-18** Record vote
+- **2019-03-18** Reported engrossed
+- **2019-03-19** Received from the Senate `introduction`
+- **2019-03-28** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-03-28** Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-16** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2019-04-16** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
+- **2019-04-18** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-04-22** Committee report distributed
+- **2019-04-22** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2019-05-17** Considered in Calendars
+- **2019-05-20** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2019-05-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-20** Passed to 3rd reading
+- **2019-05-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-21** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-21** Record vote
+- **2019-05-21** House passage reported
+- **2019-05-21** Reported enrolled
+- **2019-05-23** Signed in the Senate
+- **2019-05-25** Signed in the House
+- **2019-05-25** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-07** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-07** Effective immediately
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0642d478-8973-4b80-b181-0f47cf3150d3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+