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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to the creation of an urban land bank by certain municipalities."
+description: "Relating to the creation of an urban land bank by certain municipalities."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "87"
+identifier: "SB 1679"
+citation: "Texas SB 1679 (87)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["City Government--General (I0060)", "City Government--Land Use & Zoning (I0064)", "Governor (I0375)", "Housing--General (I0405)", "LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR (S0096)", "Property Interests--Real Property (I0595)", "SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE (S0306)", "Taxation--Property-Exemptions (I0793)", "URBAN LAND BANK PROGRAM FOR A MUNICIPALITY WITH A POPULATION OF TWO MILLION OR MORE (P0738)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alvarado", "Hernandez", "Johnson, Jarvis", "Morales, Christina", "Thompson, Senfronia"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 52
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2021-03-11"
+last_action: "2021-06-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e16f92d2-76b3-4693-a8ae-d38aaf026ec9"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/87R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB01600_SB01699/SB 1679.xml"
+source_hash: "7e7b985809ebe9e7de7312ed84153cddb838c870a8e871dfb0677dd82140a82c"
+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 1679 (87) — Relating to the creation of an urban land bank by certain municipalities.
+
+## 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/SB01679I.HTM)
+2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB01679E.HTM)
+3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB01679H.HTM)
+4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB01679S.HTM)
+5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB01679F.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **77–65** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alvarado — primary (person)
+- Hernandez — primary (person)
+- Johnson, Jarvis — primary (person)
+- Morales, Christina — primary (person)
+- Thompson, Senfronia — primary (person)
+- Allen — cosponsor (person)
+- Dutton — cosponsor (person)
+- Huberty — cosponsor (person)
+- Johnson, Ann — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales Shaw — cosponsor (person)
+- Perez — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosenthal — cosponsor (person)
+- Thierry — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-03-11** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
+- **2021-03-11** Filed `filing`
+- **2021-03-24** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2021-03-24** Referred to Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-06** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2021-04-06** Considered in public hearing
+- **2021-04-06** Testimony taken in committee
+- **2021-04-06** Left pending in committee
+- **2021-04-12** Considered in public hearing
+- **2021-04-14** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-14** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
+- **2021-04-14** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2021-04-23** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
+- **2021-04-23** Laid before the Senate
+- **2021-04-23** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
+- **2021-04-23** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2021-04-23** Three day rule suspended
+- **2021-04-23** Record vote
+- **2021-04-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-04-23** Passed `passage`
+- **2021-04-23** Record vote
+- **2021-04-23** Reported engrossed
+- **2021-04-23** Received from the Senate `introduction`
+- **2021-04-26** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2021-04-26** Referred to Urban Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-04** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2021-05-04** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-05-10** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2021-05-10** Committee report distributed
+- **2021-05-10** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2021-05-20** Considered in Calendars
+- **2021-05-22** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2021-05-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-05-23** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2021-05-23** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2021-05-23** Passed to 3rd reading as amended
+- **2021-05-23** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
+- **2021-05-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-05-24** Passed `passage`
+- **2021-05-24** Record vote
+- **2021-05-24** House passage as amended reported
+- **2021-05-27** House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
+- **2021-05-27** Read
+- **2021-05-27** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
+- **2021-05-27** Record vote
+- **2021-05-27** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported
+- **2021-05-28** Reported enrolled
+- **2021-05-30** Signed in the Senate
+- **2021-05-31** Signed in the House
+- **2021-06-01** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-16** Filed without the Governor's signature `became-law`
+- **2021-06-16** 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/e16f92d2-76b3-4693-a8ae-d38aaf026ec9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
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