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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to a sales and use tax exemption for animals adopted from or sold by nonprofit animal welfare organizations."
+description: "Relating to a sales and use tax exemption for animals adopted from or sold by nonprofit animal welfare organizations."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "87"
+identifier: "SB 197"
+citation: "Texas SB 197 (87)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Animals (I0035)", "Charitable & Nonprofit Organizations (I0055)", "Taxation--Sales (I0800)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Buckley", "Meyer", "Nelson", "Noble", "Rodriguez", "Turner, Chris"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 46
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2020-11-16"
+last_action: "2021-06-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f212d4c4-0a11-45e4-a15d-417e3f4cad25"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/87R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00100_SB00199/SB 197.xml"
+source_hash: "5f8003eee9d0053e0aa2bd4a39dfd10ead46198c218ce1ca6fa52ef22638ef1d"
+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 197 (87) — Relating to a sales and use tax exemption for animals adopted from or sold by nonprofit animal welfare organizations.
+
+## 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/SB00197I.HTM)
+2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB00197E.HTM)
+3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB00197H.HTM)
+4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB00197S.HTM)
+5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB00197F.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **143–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Buckley — primary (person)
+- Meyer — primary (person)
+- Nelson — primary (person)
+- Noble — primary (person)
+- Rodriguez — primary (person)
+- Turner, Chris — primary (person)
+- Button — cosponsor (person)
+- Canales — cosponsor (person)
+- Cook — cosponsor (person)
+- Creighton — cosponsor (person)
+- Fierro — cosponsor (person)
+- Goldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Harless — cosponsor (person)
+- Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Jetton — cosponsor (person)
+- King, Phil — cosponsor (person)
+- Kolkhorst — cosponsor (person)
+- Krause — cosponsor (person)
+- Meza — cosponsor (person)
+- Minjarez — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales Shaw — cosponsor (person)
+- Neave — cosponsor (person)
+- Ortega — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Paxton — cosponsor (person)
+- Perez — cosponsor (person)
+- Price — cosponsor (person)
+- Shaheen — cosponsor (person)
+- Sherman, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Slaton — cosponsor (person)
+- Slawson — cosponsor (person)
+- Spiller — cosponsor (person)
+- Swanson — cosponsor (person)
+- Toth — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-11-16** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
+- **2020-11-16** Filed `filing`
+- **2021-03-02** Co-author authorized
+- **2021-03-03** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2021-03-03** Referred to Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-29** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2021-03-29** Meeting cancelled
+- **2021-03-30** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2021-03-30** Considered in public hearing
+- **2021-03-30** Testimony taken in committee
+- **2021-03-30** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-30** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
+- **2021-03-30** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2021-04-08** Co-author authorized
+- **2021-04-09** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
+- **2021-04-09** Laid before the Senate
+- **2021-04-09** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
+- **2021-04-09** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2021-04-09** Three day rule suspended
+- **2021-04-09** Record vote
+- **2021-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-04-09** Passed `passage`
+- **2021-04-09** Record vote
+- **2021-04-09** Reported engrossed
+- **2021-04-12** Received from the Senate `introduction`
+- **2021-04-14** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2021-04-14** Referred to Ways & Means `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-05** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2021-05-05** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-05-11** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2021-05-11** Committee report distributed
+- **2021-05-11** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2021-05-14** Considered in Calendars
+- **2021-05-18** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2021-05-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-05-18** Passed to 3rd reading
+- **2021-05-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-05-19** Passed `passage`
+- **2021-05-19** Record vote
+- **2021-05-19** House passage reported
+- **2021-05-19** Reported enrolled
+- **2021-05-20** Signed in the Senate
+- **2021-05-20** Signed in the House
+- **2021-05-20** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-04** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-04** Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f212d4c4-0a11-45e4-a15d-417e3f4cad25`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+