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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to the designation and use of certain spaces and facilities according to sex; authorizing a civil penalty and a private civil right of action."
+description: "Relating to the designation and use of certain spaces and facilities according to sex; authorizing a civil penalty and a private civil right of action."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "892"
+identifier: "SB 8"
+citation: "Texas SB 8 (892)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ATTORNEY GENERAL (V2811)", "ATTORNEY'S FEES (S0202)", "BIRTH & DEATH CERTIFICATES (S6418)", "CRIMINAL JUSTICE", "TEXAS BOARD OF (V0740)", "CRIMINAL JUSTICE", "TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF (V8788)", "Civil Remedies & Liabilities (I0065)", "Corrections--Jails & Prisons (I0092)", "Courts--General (I0160)", "Education--Higher--General (I0231)", "Family--Family Violence (I0353)", "GENDER IDENTITY & EXPRESSION (S0767)", "Political Subdivisions (I0588)", "State Agencies", "Boards & Commissions (I0749)", "TEXAS WOMEN'S PRIVACY ACT (PH8L1)", "WOMEN'S SHELTERS (S0049)", "Women (I0925)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bettencourt", "Birdwell", "Bonnen", "Campbell", "Creighton", "Flores", "Hagenbuch", "Hall", "Harris", "Hinojosa, Adam", "Huffman", "Hughes", "King", "Kolkhorst", "Leach", "Metcalf", "Middleton", "Orr", "Paxton", "Sparks"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 98
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2025-08-15"
+last_action: "2025-09-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/628f4192-e8db-4802-9e01-1a672027f9e0"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/892/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00001_SB00099/SB 8.xml"
+source_hash: "2b2b789ca5beee13681e90c1ca05ffba85113f162102640f820d05a8e8b5b7b0"
+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 8 (892) — Relating to the designation and use of certain spaces and facilities according to sex; authorizing a civil penalty and a private civil right of action.
+
+## 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/892/billtext/html/SB00008I.HTM)
+2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/892/billtext/html/SB00008E.HTM)
+3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/892/billtext/html/SB00008H.HTM)
+4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/892/billtext/html/SB00008S.HTM)
+5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/892/billtext/html/SB00008F.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- other — **45–85** (fail) · lower
+- passage — **86–45** (pass) · lower
+- passage — **18–8** (pass) · upper
+- passage — **84–49** (pass) · lower
+- passage — **19–11** (pass) · upper
+- passage — **19–11** (pass) · upper
+- passage — **86–43** (pass) · lower
+- passage — **80–48** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bettencourt — primary (person)
+- Birdwell — primary (person)
+- Bonnen — primary (person)
+- Campbell — primary (person)
+- Creighton — primary (person)
+- Flores — primary (person)
+- Hagenbuch — primary (person)
+- Hall — primary (person)
+- Harris — primary (person)
+- Hinojosa, Adam — primary (person)
+- Huffman — primary (person)
+- Hughes — primary (person)
+- King — primary (person)
+- Kolkhorst — primary (person)
+- Leach — primary (person)
+- Metcalf — primary (person)
+- Middleton — primary (person)
+- Orr — primary (person)
+- Paxton — primary (person)
+- Sparks — primary (person)
+- Alders — cosponsor (person)
+- Ashby — cosponsor (person)
+- Barry — cosponsor (person)
+- Bell, Cecil — cosponsor (person)
+- Bell, Keith — cosponsor (person)
+- Buckley — cosponsor (person)
+- Bumgarner — cosponsor (person)
+- Button — cosponsor (person)
+- Cain — cosponsor (person)
+- Capriglione — cosponsor (person)
+- Cook — cosponsor (person)
+- Craddick — cosponsor (person)
+- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
+- Curry — cosponsor (person)
+- DeAyala — cosponsor (person)
+- Dorazio — cosponsor (person)
+- Dyson — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerdes — cosponsor (person)
+- Guillen — cosponsor (person)
+- Harless — cosponsor (person)
+- Harris Davila — cosponsor (person)
+- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
+- Hefner — cosponsor (person)
+- Hickland — cosponsor (person)
+- Holt — cosponsor (person)
+- Hopper — cosponsor (person)
+- Hull — cosponsor (person)
+- Hunter — cosponsor (person)
+- Isaac — cosponsor (person)
+- Kerwin — cosponsor (person)
+- Kitzman — cosponsor (person)
+- LaHood — cosponsor (person)
+- Landgraf — cosponsor (person)
+- Leo Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Little — cosponsor (person)
+- Lopez, Janie — cosponsor (person)
+- Lowe — cosponsor (person)
+- Luther — cosponsor (person)
+- McLaughlin — cosponsor (person)
+- McQueeney — cosponsor (person)
+- Meyer — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
+- Parker — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul — cosponsor (person)
+- Phelan — cosponsor (person)
+- Pierson — cosponsor (person)
+- Richardson — cosponsor (person)
+- Schoolcraft — cosponsor (person)
+- Shaheen — cosponsor (person)
+- Shofner — cosponsor (person)
+- Slawson — cosponsor (person)
+- Spiller — cosponsor (person)
+- Tepper — cosponsor (person)
+- Tinderholt — cosponsor (person)
+- Troxclair — cosponsor (person)
+- Villalobos — cosponsor (person)
+- Virdell — cosponsor (person)
+- Wharton — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-08-15** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing, introduction`
+- **2025-08-15** Filed `filing`
+- **2025-08-15** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-08-15** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2025-08-15** Posting rule suspended
+- **2025-08-15** Record vote
+- **2025-08-15** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2025-08-15** Considered in public hearing
+- **2025-08-15** Testimony taken in committee
+- **2025-08-15** Vote taken in committee
+- **2025-08-15** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-08-15** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2025-08-18** Co-author authorized
+- **2025-08-18** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2025-08-18** Record vote
+- **2025-08-18** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment `reading-2`
+- **2025-08-18** Record vote
+- **2025-08-19** Laid before the Senate `receipt`
+- **2025-08-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-08-19** Passed `passage`
+- **2025-08-19** Record vote
+- **2025-08-19** Reason for vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-08-19** Reported engrossed
+- **2025-08-20** Received from the Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-08-20** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-08-20** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2025-08-22** Considered in public hearing
+- **2025-08-22** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2025-08-22** Left pending in committee
+- **2025-08-25** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2025-08-25** Amendment(s) considered in committee
+- **2025-08-25** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-08-26** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
+- **2025-08-26** Committee report distributed
+- **2025-08-27** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2025-08-27** Considered in Calendars
+- **2025-08-28** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2025-08-28** Rules suspended
+- **2025-08-28** Additional sponsor(s) authorized
+- **2025-08-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-08-28** Amendment tabled `deferral`
+- **2025-08-28** Record vote
+- **2025-08-28** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-08-28** Amendment tabled `deferral`
+- **2025-08-28** Record vote
+- **2025-08-28** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-08-28** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2025-08-28** Point of order withdrawn (amendment) `withdrawal`
+- **2025-08-28** Amendment withdrawn `amendment-withdrawal, withdrawal`
+- **2025-08-28** Amendment tabled `deferral`
+- **2025-08-28** Record vote
+- **2025-08-28** Amendment tabled `deferral`
+- **2025-08-28** Record vote
+- **2025-08-28** Amendment tabled `deferral`
+- **2025-08-28** Record vote
+- **2025-08-28** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-08-28** Amendment tabled `deferral`
+- **2025-08-28** Record vote
+- **2025-08-28** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-08-28** Amendment tabled `deferral`
+- **2025-08-28** Record vote
+- **2025-08-28** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2025-08-28** Point of order withdrawn (amendment) `withdrawal`
+- **2025-08-28** Amendment withdrawn `amendment-withdrawal, withdrawal`
+- **2025-08-28** Amendment tabled `deferral`
+- **2025-08-28** Record vote
+- **2025-08-28** Amendment tabled `deferral`
+- **2025-08-28** Record vote
+- **2025-08-28** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2025-08-28** Point of order withdrawn (amendment) `withdrawal`
+- **2025-08-28** Amendment tabled `deferral`
+- **2025-08-28** Record vote
+- **2025-08-28** Amendment tabled `deferral`
+- **2025-08-28** Record vote
+- **2025-08-28** Point of order withdrawn `withdrawal`
+- **2025-08-28** Point of order withdrawn `withdrawal`
+- **2025-08-28** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-08-28** Record vote
+- **2025-08-28** Passed to 3rd reading as amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-08-28** Record vote
+- **2025-08-28** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-08-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-08-28** Passed `passage`
+- **2025-08-28** Record vote
+- **2025-08-28** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-08-28** Reason for vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-09-02** House passage as amended reported `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-09-03** House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
+- **2025-09-03** Read
+- **2025-09-03** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
+- **2025-09-03** Record vote
+- **2025-09-03** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported
+- **2025-09-03** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2025-09-03** Signed in the Senate `passage`
+- **2025-09-03** Signed in the House `passage`
+- **2025-09-04** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-09-22** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-09-22** 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/628f4192-e8db-4802-9e01-1a672027f9e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+