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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to the assessment of litigation costs and attorney's fees in certain actions under the public information law."
+description: "Relating to the assessment of litigation costs and attorney's fees in certain actions under the public information law."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "SB 988"
+citation: "Texas SB 988 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Civil Remedies & Liabilities (I0065)", "Open Records (I0548)", "ATTORNEY'S FEES (S0202)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Capriglione", "Watson"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 45
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-02-22"
+last_action: "2019-06-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d2e393b2-e742-4afc-840a-9cb59deef9d2"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00900_SB00999/SB 988.xml"
+source_hash: "e88d6e48f0f4e29c002517ce079bb69cda478aea68e003fa0c32a3a0d3da3eb7"
+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 988 (86) — Relating to the assessment of litigation costs and attorney's fees in certain actions under the public information law.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/86R/billtext/html/SB00988I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **139–2** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Capriglione — primary (person)
+- Watson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-22** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
+- **2019-02-22** Filed `filing`
+- **2019-03-01** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-03-01** Referred to Business & Commerce `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-26** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-03-26** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-03-26** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-03-28** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-04-01** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-01** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
+- **2019-04-01** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2019-04-02** Placed on intent calendar
+- **2019-04-04** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2019-04-04** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
+- **2019-04-04** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-04-04** Three day rule suspended
+- **2019-04-04** Record vote
+- **2019-04-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-04-04** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-04-04** Record vote
+- **2019-04-04** Reported engrossed
+- **2019-04-05** Received from the Senate `introduction`
+- **2019-04-08** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-04-08** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-25** Scheduled for formal meeting on . . .
+- **2019-04-25** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2019-04-25** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
+- **2019-04-30** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-04-30** Committee report distributed
+- **2019-05-01** 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** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **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`
+- **2019-06-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-10** 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/d2e393b2-e742-4afc-840a-9cb59deef9d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
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