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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to state and regional flood planning."
+description: "Relating to state and regional flood planning."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "SB 8"
+citation: "Texas SB 8 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Disaster Preparedness & Relief (I0211)", "Water--Development (I0875)", "Water--General (I0885)", "FLOODS (S0327)", "EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT", "DIVISION OF THE DEPT. OF PUBLIC SAFETY (V0318)", "SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION BOARD", "TEXAS STATE (V9940)", "WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD", "TEXAS (V2481)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alvarado", "Bettencourt", "Birdwell", "Buckingham", "Campbell", "Creighton", "Fallon", "Flores", "Hall", "Hancock", "Hinojosa", "Huffman", "Hughes", "Johnson", "Kolkhorst", "Larson", "Lucio", "Menéndez", "Miles", "Nelson", "Nichols", "Paxton", "Perry", "Powell", "Rodríguez", "Schwertner", "Seliger", "Taylor", "Watson", "West", "Whitmire", "Zaffirini"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 62
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-03-06"
+last_action: "2019-06-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/561a62f5-c318-420b-b27b-56a53c3d3618"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00001_SB00099/SB 8.xml"
+source_hash: "4d4711ca81c9b57b4f7a7d63a558dade053a2058ba58ec3e30d2344f5335a2e4"
+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 8 (86) — Relating to state and regional flood planning.
+
+## 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/SB00008I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **139–3** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alvarado — primary (person)
+- Bettencourt — primary (person)
+- Birdwell — primary (person)
+- Buckingham — primary (person)
+- Campbell — primary (person)
+- Creighton — primary (person)
+- Fallon — primary (person)
+- Flores — primary (person)
+- Hall — primary (person)
+- Hancock — primary (person)
+- Hinojosa — primary (person)
+- Huffman — primary (person)
+- Hughes — primary (person)
+- Johnson — primary (person)
+- Kolkhorst — primary (person)
+- Larson — primary (person)
+- Lucio — primary (person)
+- Menéndez — primary (person)
+- Miles — primary (person)
+- Nelson — primary (person)
+- Nichols — primary (person)
+- Paxton — primary (person)
+- Perry — primary (person)
+- Powell — primary (person)
+- Rodríguez — primary (person)
+- Schwertner — primary (person)
+- Seliger — primary (person)
+- Taylor — primary (person)
+- Watson — primary (person)
+- West — primary (person)
+- Whitmire — primary (person)
+- Zaffirini — primary (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
+- **2019-03-20** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2019-03-20** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
+- **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** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2019-04-30** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-05-06** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2019-05-06** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
+- **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** Postponed
+- **2019-05-16** Laid out as postponed business
+- **2019-05-16** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **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** Postponed
+- **2019-05-20** Laid out as postponed business
+- **2019-05-20** Postponed
+- **2019-05-22** Laid out as postponed business
+- **2019-05-22** Postponed
+- **2019-05-22** Laid out as postponed business
+- **2019-05-22** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-05-22** Passed as amended `passage`
+- **2019-05-22** Record vote
+- **2019-05-22** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-23** House passage as amended reported
+- **2019-05-25** House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
+- **2019-05-25** Read
+- **2019-05-25** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
+- **2019-05-25** Record vote
+- **2019-05-25** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported
+- **2019-05-25** Reported enrolled
+- **2019-05-26** Signed in the Senate
+- **2019-05-26** Signed in the House
+- **2019-05-26** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-10** Effective immediately
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/561a62f5-c318-420b-b27b-56a53c3d3618`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
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