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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to retail public utilities that provide water or sewer service."
+description: "Relating to retail public utilities that provide water or sewer service."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "SB 700"
+citation: "Texas SB 700 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Utilities--Water & Sewer (I0002)", "WATER & SEWER SERVICE (S0443)", "ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY", "TEXAS COMMISSION ON (V0334)", "PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION (V0023)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Geren", "Nichols", "Watson"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 49
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-02-07"
+last_action: "2019-06-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/15090350-81cb-4bcc-9ac3-8cd5ffcb75ef"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00700_SB00799/SB 700.xml"
+source_hash: "fe970820c1e0f80a83a7f0cb277db83cee1eea5dff99ffc54dd0fae64f4774ae"
+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 700 (86) — Relating to retail public utilities that provide water or sewer service.
+
+## 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/SB00700I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **141–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Geren — primary (person)
+- Nichols — primary (person)
+- Watson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-07** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
+- **2019-02-07** Filed `filing`
+- **2019-03-01** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-03-01** Referred to Water & Rural Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-25** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-03-25** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-03-25** Testimony taken in committee
+- **2019-03-27** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-27** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
+- **2019-03-27** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2019-04-08** Placed on intent calendar
+- **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 Natural Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-17** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2019-04-17** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
+- **2019-04-23** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-04-24** Committee report distributed
+- **2019-04-24** 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** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-05-16** Passed to 3rd reading as amended
+- **2019-05-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-17** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-17** Record vote
+- **2019-05-17** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-17** House passage as amended reported
+- **2019-05-21** House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
+- **2019-05-21** Read
+- **2019-05-21** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
+- **2019-05-21** Record vote
+- **2019-05-21** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-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`
+- **2019-06-14** Signed by the Governor `executive-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/15090350-81cb-4bcc-9ac3-8cd5ffcb75ef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
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