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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to emergency and disaster management, response, and recovery."
+description: "Relating to emergency and disaster management, response, and recovery."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "SB 6"
+citation: "Texas SB 6 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Disabilities", "Persons with (I0380)", "Disaster Preparedness & Relief (I0211)", "Education--General (I0255)", "Education--Higher--Institutions & Programs (I0223)", "Environment--General (I0340)", "Health--Emergency Services & Personnel (I0384)", "State Agencies", "Boards & Commissions (I0749)", "LOANS (S0117)", "TEXAS A&M ENGINEERING EXTENSION SERVICE (U0235)", "EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT WORK GROUP (V1223)", "EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT", "DIVISION OF THE DEPT. OF PUBLIC SAFETY (V0318)", "HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION (V0177)", "WET DEBRIS STUDY GROUP (V1222)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alvarado", "Bettencourt", "Buckingham", "Creighton", "Flores", "Hancock", "Hinojosa", "Huffman", "Hughes", "Kolkhorst", "Miles", "Morrison", "Nichols", "Perry", "Schwertner", "Taylor", "Watson", "Zaffirini"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 74
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2019-03-06"
+last_action: "2019-06-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5edaf710-4b78-4268-bb55-24fb09a347fb"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00001_SB00099/SB 6.xml"
+source_hash: "e1747908624971cefa75a95438003829e080d67394e88c46f27f3ab85eefd6ab"
+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 6 (86) — Relating to emergency and disaster management, response, and recovery.
+
+## 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/SB00006I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- other — **143–0** (fail) · upper
+- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alvarado — primary (person)
+- Bettencourt — primary (person)
+- Buckingham — primary (person)
+- Creighton — primary (person)
+- Flores — primary (person)
+- Hancock — primary (person)
+- Hinojosa — primary (person)
+- Huffman — primary (person)
+- Hughes — primary (person)
+- Kolkhorst — primary (person)
+- Miles — primary (person)
+- Morrison — primary (person)
+- Nichols — primary (person)
+- Perry — primary (person)
+- Schwertner — primary (person)
+- Taylor — primary (person)
+- Watson — primary (person)
+- Zaffirini — primary (person)
+- Fallon — cosponsor (person)
+- Lucio — cosponsor (person)
+- West — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-03-06** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
+- **2019-03-06** Filed `filing`
+- **2019-03-07** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-03-07** Referred to Water & Rural Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-11** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-03-11** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-03-11** Testimony taken in committee
+- **2019-03-14** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-14** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2019-03-18** Placed on intent calendar
+- **2019-03-19** Co-author authorized
+- **2019-03-20** Co-author authorized
+- **2019-03-20** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2019-03-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-20** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2019-03-20** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-03-20** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-03-20** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2019-03-20** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-03-20** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-03-20** Passed to engrossment as amended
+- **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 Homeland Security & Public Safety `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-15** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2019-05-15** Committee substitute considered in committee
+- **2019-05-15** Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-15** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-05-16** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-05-16** Committee report distributed
+- **2019-05-17** Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
+- **2019-05-20** Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
+- **2019-05-22** Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
+- **2019-05-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-22** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-05-22** Passed to 3rd reading as amended
+- **2019-05-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-22** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-22** Record vote
+- **2019-05-22** House passage as amended reported
+- **2019-05-24** House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
+- **2019-05-24** Read
+- **2019-05-24** Senate refuses to concur
+- **2019-05-24** Senate requests conference committee
+- **2019-05-24** Senate appoints conferees
+- **2019-05-24** Senate refuses to concur-reported
+- **2019-05-24** Senate requests conference committee-reported
+- **2019-05-24** Senate appoints conferees-reported
+- **2019-05-24** House grants request for conference committee
+- **2019-05-24** House appoints conferees
+- **2019-05-24** House grants request for conf comm-reported
+- **2019-05-24** House appoints conferees-reported
+- **2019-05-25** Conference committee report filed
+- **2019-05-25** Conf. Comm. Report distributed
+- **2019-05-26** Senate adopts conference committee report
+- **2019-05-26** Record vote
+- **2019-05-26** Senate adopts conf. comm. report-reported
+- **2019-05-26** House adopts conference committee report
+- **2019-05-26** Record vote
+- **2019-05-26** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-26** House adopts conf. comm. report-reported
+- **2019-05-27** Reported enrolled
+- **2019-05-27** Signed in the Senate
+- **2019-05-27** Signed in the House
+- **2019-05-28** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-13** 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/5edaf710-4b78-4268-bb55-24fb09a347fb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+