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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to the consolidation and allocation of state civil court costs; increasing certain civil court costs; authorizing fees."
+description: "Relating to the consolidation and allocation of state civil court costs; increasing certain civil court costs; authorizing fees."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "87"
+identifier: "SB 41"
+citation: "Texas SB 41 (87)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS (V2608)", "Courts--Administration (I0130)", "Courts--Appellate (I0125)", "Courts--County & Statutory (I0115)", "Courts--District (I0120)", "Courts--General (I0160)", "Courts--Judges (I0140)", "Courts--Justice (I0110)", "Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--Local (I0361)", "Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--State (I0362)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Leach", "Zaffirini"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 63
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-11-09"
+last_action: "2021-06-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fbc38f93-2bea-44e0-8a4c-7a1a15f4d81f"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/87R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00001_SB00099/SB 41.xml"
+source_hash: "5dcd071ae58bd9a0317a5ea06582426987b8acad8df48c81b1d929b7d6e905ee"
+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 41 (87) — Relating to the consolidation and allocation of state civil court costs; increasing certain civil court costs; authorizing fees.
+
+## 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/SB00041I.HTM)
+2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB00041E.HTM)
+3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB00041H.HTM)
+4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB00041S.HTM)
+5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB00041F.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Leach — primary (person)
+- Zaffirini — primary (person)
+- Hinojosa — cosponsor (person)
+- Huffman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-11-09** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
+- **2020-11-09** Filed `filing`
+- **2021-03-03** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2021-03-03** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-08** Rereferred to committee
+- **2021-04-08** Referred to Jurisprudence `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-15** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2021-04-15** Considered in public hearing
+- **2021-04-15** Left pending in committee
+- **2021-04-22** Considered in public hearing
+- **2021-04-28** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-28** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2021-05-03** Placed on intent calendar
+- **2021-05-05** Co-author authorized
+- **2021-05-05** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2021-05-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-05-05** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2021-05-05** Amendment to amendment offered
+- **2021-05-05** Amendment amended `amendment-amendment`
+- **2021-05-05** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2021-05-05** Amendment adopted as amended
+- **2021-05-05** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2021-05-05** Passed to engrossment as amended
+- **2021-05-05** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2021-05-05** Three day rule suspended
+- **2021-05-05** Record vote
+- **2021-05-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-05-05** Passed `passage`
+- **2021-05-05** Record vote
+- **2021-05-05** Reported engrossed
+- **2021-05-06** Received from the Senate `introduction`
+- **2021-05-07** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2021-05-07** Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-19** Considered in public hearing
+- **2021-05-19** Committee substitute considered in committee
+- **2021-05-19** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2021-05-19** Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-19** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-05-22** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2021-05-22** Committee report distributed
+- **2021-05-23** Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
+- **2021-05-23** Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
+- **2021-05-26** Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
+- **2021-05-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-05-26** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2021-05-26** Passed to 3rd reading as amended
+- **2021-05-26** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
+- **2021-05-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-05-26** Passed `passage`
+- **2021-05-26** Record vote
+- **2021-05-26** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
+- **2021-05-27** House passage as amended reported
+- **2021-05-29** House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
+- **2021-05-29** Read
+- **2021-05-29** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
+- **2021-05-29** Record vote
+- **2021-05-29** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported
+- **2021-05-31** Reported enrolled
+- **2021-05-31** Signed in the House
+- **2021-05-31** Signed in the Senate
+- **2021-06-01** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-14** Filed without the Governor's signature `became-law`
+- **2021-06-14** Effective on 1/1/22 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fbc38f93-2bea-44e0-8a4c-7a1a15f4d81f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+