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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to a specialty court program to provide victim services in sexual assault cases."
+description: "Relating to a specialty court program to provide victim services in sexual assault cases."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "87"
+identifier: "HB 1706"
+citation: "Texas HB 1706 (87)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CRIME VICTIMS (S0046)", "Courts--General (I0160)", "Crimes--Against Persons--Sexual (I0171)", "Criminal Procedure--Trial (I0204)", "SEXUAL ASSAULT (S4375)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Button", "Howard", "Huffman", "Leach", "Neave", "Swanson"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 44
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2021-02-09"
+last_action: "2021-06-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80b4949f-33d2-4488-a29b-f233e1d85db0"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/87R/billhistory/house_bills/HB01700_HB01799/HB 1706.xml"
+source_hash: "f96d61be4c5acef696df1825fe6b1b6448995b4dc814b90ea9ebc0970d4de83d"
+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 HB 1706 (87) — Relating to a specialty court program to provide victim services in sexual assault cases.
+
+## 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/87R/billtext/html/HB01706I.HTM)
+2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/HB01706E.HTM)
+3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/HB01706H.HTM)
+4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/HB01706S.HTM)
+5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/HB01706F.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **129–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Button — primary (person)
+- Howard — primary (person)
+- Huffman — primary (person)
+- Leach — primary (person)
+- Neave — primary (person)
+- Swanson — primary (person)
+- Guillen — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales Shaw — cosponsor (person)
+- Ramos — cosponsor (person)
+- Zwiener — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-09** Filed `filing`
+- **2021-03-10** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2021-03-10** Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-17** Considered in public hearing
+- **2021-03-17** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2021-03-17** Left pending in committee
+- **2021-03-31** Considered in public hearing
+- **2021-03-31** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-04-12** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2021-04-13** Committee report distributed
+- **2021-04-13** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2021-04-27** Considered in Calendars
+- **2021-04-29** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2021-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-04-29** Passed to engrossment
+- **2021-04-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-04-30** Passed `passage`
+- **2021-04-30** Record vote
+- **2021-04-30** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2021-04-30** Reported engrossed
+- **2021-05-03** Received from the House `introduction`
+- **2021-05-10** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2021-05-10** Referred to Jurisprudence `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-20** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2021-05-20** Considered in public hearing
+- **2021-05-21** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-05-21** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
+- **2021-05-21** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2021-05-26** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
+- **2021-05-27** Laid before the Senate
+- **2021-05-27** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
+- **2021-05-27** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2021-05-27** Three day rule suspended
+- **2021-05-27** Record vote
+- **2021-05-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-05-27** Passed `passage`
+- **2021-05-27** Record vote
+- **2021-05-27** Senate passage reported
+- **2021-05-29** Reported enrolled
+- **2021-05-30** Signed in the House
+- **2021-05-31** Signed in the Senate
+- **2021-05-31** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-15** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-15** Effective on 9/1/21 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/80b4949f-33d2-4488-a29b-f233e1d85db0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+