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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to a cause of action for the bad faith washout of an overriding royalty interest in an oil and gas lease."
+description: "Relating to a cause of action for the bad faith washout of an overriding royalty interest in an oil and gas lease."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "88"
+identifier: "HB 450"
+citation: "Texas HB 450 (88)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Civil Remedies & Liabilities (I0065)", "Courts--District (I0120)", "Mines & Mineral Resources (I0536)", "Oil & Gas (I0545)", "Property Interests--Real Property (I0595)", "ROYALTIES (S0398)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Burrows", "Craddick", "Hughes", "Morales, Eddie"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 47
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2022-11-14"
+last_action: "2023-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2db4db46-6de9-4782-8028-33415702d240"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/88R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00400_HB00499/HB 450.xml"
+source_hash: "e29587b8c37f9d1233557125d4ce93b9479d509ba8806df119f73a7211b16d40"
+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 450 (88) — Relating to a cause of action for the bad faith washout of an overriding royalty interest in an oil and gas lease.
+
+## 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/88R/billtext/html/HB00450I.HTM)
+2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB00450E.HTM)
+3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB00450H.HTM)
+4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB00450S.HTM)
+5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB00450F.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **143–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Burrows — primary (person)
+- Craddick — primary (person)
+- Hughes — primary (person)
+- Morales, Eddie — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-11-14** Filed `filing`
+- **2023-02-23** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2023-02-23** Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-08** Considered in public hearing
+- **2023-03-08** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2023-03-08** Left pending in committee
+- **2023-03-15** Considered in public hearing
+- **2023-03-15** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-03-21** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
+- **2023-03-21** Committee report distributed
+- **2023-03-22** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2023-04-05** Considered in Calendars
+- **2023-04-10** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2023-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-04-10** Passed to engrossment
+- **2023-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-11** Passed `passage`
+- **2023-04-11** Record vote
+- **2023-04-11** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2023-04-11** Reported engrossed
+- **2023-04-11** Received from the House `introduction`
+- **2023-04-12** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2023-04-12** Referred to Administration `referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-18** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2023-04-18** Considered in public hearing
+- **2023-04-18** Vote taken in committee
+- **2023-04-20** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
+- **2023-04-19** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-19** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
+- **2023-04-19** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2023-04-20** Removed from local & uncontested calendar
+- **2023-04-27** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
+- **2023-04-27** Laid before the Senate `receipt`
+- **2023-04-27** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading `reading-2`
+- **2023-04-27** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2023-04-27** Three day rule suspended
+- **2023-04-27** Record vote
+- **2023-04-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-27** Passed `passage`
+- **2023-04-27** Record vote
+- **2023-04-27** Senate passage reported `passage`
+- **2023-04-27** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-04-28** Signed in the House `passage`
+- **2023-05-01** Signed in the Senate `passage`
+- **2023-05-02** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-05-13** Filed without the Governor's signature `became-law`
+- **2023-05-13** Effective on 9/1/23 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2db4db46-6de9-4782-8028-33415702d240`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+