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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to flood planning, mitigation, and infrastructure projects."
+description: "Relating to flood planning, mitigation, and infrastructure projects."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "SB 7"
+citation: "Texas SB 7 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Disaster Preparedness & Relief (I0211)", "Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--State (I0362)", "State Finances--Appropriations (I0746)", "State Finances--Management & Control (I0748)", "Utilities--Water & Sewer (I0002)", "Water--Development (I0875)", "Water--General (I0885)", "FLOODS (S0327)", "EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT", "DIVISION OF THE DEPT. OF PUBLIC SAFETY (V0318)", "TEXAS INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCY FUND ADVISORY COMMITTEE (V1266)", "WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD", "TEXAS (V2481)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alvarado", "Bettencourt", "Buckingham", "Creighton", "Flores", "Hinojosa", "Huffman", "Kolkhorst", "Lucio", "Miles", "Nelson", "Nichols", "Perry", "Phelan", "Taylor"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 73
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2019-03-06"
+last_action: "2019-06-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c9ad2cd-e109-4539-90b3-01b2280af30f"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00001_SB00099/SB 7.xml"
+source_hash: "161115e3a0ba597fc110af1c5c8018b5035b7dfeb4b58071c4230a82dcc2304b"
+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 7 (86) — Relating to flood planning, mitigation, and infrastructure projects.
+
+## 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/SB00007I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- passage — **143–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alvarado — primary (person)
+- Bettencourt — primary (person)
+- Buckingham — primary (person)
+- Creighton — primary (person)
+- Flores — primary (person)
+- Hinojosa — primary (person)
+- Huffman — primary (person)
+- Kolkhorst — primary (person)
+- Lucio — primary (person)
+- Miles — primary (person)
+- Nelson — primary (person)
+- Nichols — primary (person)
+- Perry — primary (person)
+- Phelan — primary (person)
+- Taylor — primary (person)
+- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
+- Fallon — cosponsor (person)
+- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Powell — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodríguez — cosponsor (person)
+- Schwertner — cosponsor (person)
+- Watson — cosponsor (person)
+- West — cosponsor (person)
+- Whitmire — cosponsor (person)
+- Zaffirini — 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** 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 Natural Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-29** Posting rule suspended
+- **2019-04-30** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-04-30** Committee substitute considered in committee
+- **2019-04-30** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2019-04-30** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-05-06** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2019-05-06** Committee substitute considered in committee
+- **2019-05-06** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-05-09** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-05-09** Committee report distributed
+- **2019-05-10** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2019-05-14** Considered in Calendars
+- **2019-05-16** Placed on Major State Calendar
+- **2019-05-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-16** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2019-05-16** Amendment amended `amendment-amendment`
+- **2019-05-16** Amendment amended `amendment-amendment`
+- **2019-05-16** Amendment amended `amendment-amendment`
+- **2019-05-16** Amendment adopted as amended
+- **2019-05-16** Statement of Leg. Intent Recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-16** Passed to 3rd reading as amended
+- **2019-05-16** Constitutional three day rule suspended
+- **2019-05-16** Record vote
+- **2019-05-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-16** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-16** Record vote
+- **2019-05-16** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-16** House passage as amended reported
+- **2019-05-22** House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
+- **2019-05-22** Read
+- **2019-05-22** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
+- **2019-05-22** Record vote
+- **2019-05-22** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported
+- **2019-05-22** Reported enrolled
+- **2019-05-24** Signed in the Senate
+- **2019-05-25** Signed in the House
+- **2019-05-25** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-13** See remarks for effective date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2c9ad2cd-e109-4539-90b3-01b2280af30f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+