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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to general definitions for and collection of governmental information regarding biological sex."
+description: "Relating to general definitions for and collection of governmental information regarding biological sex."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "89R"
+identifier: "HB 229"
+citation: "Texas HB 229 (89R)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["GENDER IDENTITY & EXPRESSION (S0767)", "Health--Privacy/Use of Information (I0389)", "Human Relations (I0410)", "VITAL STATISTICS & RECORDS (S2714)", "Women (I0925)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hull", "Leach", "Middleton", "Slawson", "Swanson", "Troxclair"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 80
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-11-12"
+last_action: "2025-06-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c95a2c08-9f4a-4ff9-b33f-e58e97f94809"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00200_HB00299/HB 229.xml"
+source_hash: "06af232fa6e8bcda9f82f1442703cd1046949c02d9d77c4fecbfe9fc8ddba86d"
+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 229 (89R) — Relating to general definitions for and collection of governmental information regarding biological sex.
+
+## 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/89R/billtext/html/HB00229I.HTM)
+2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB00229E.HTM)
+3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB00229H.HTM)
+4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB00229S.HTM)
+5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB00229F.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **86–36** (pass) · lower
+- passage — **87–56** (pass) · lower
+- other — **28–79** (fail) · lower
+- passage — **20–11** (pass) · upper
+- passage — **20–11** (pass) · upper
+- passage — **20–11** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hull — primary (person)
+- Leach — primary (person)
+- Middleton — primary (person)
+- Slawson — primary (person)
+- Swanson — primary (person)
+- Troxclair — primary (person)
+- Alders — cosponsor (person)
+- Barry — cosponsor (person)
+- Bell, Keith — cosponsor (person)
+- Bonnen — cosponsor (person)
+- Buckley — cosponsor (person)
+- Bumgarner — cosponsor (person)
+- Button — cosponsor (person)
+- Cain — cosponsor (person)
+- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
+- Capriglione — cosponsor (person)
+- Cook — cosponsor (person)
+- Curry — cosponsor (person)
+- DeAyala — cosponsor (person)
+- Dean — cosponsor (person)
+- Dorazio — cosponsor (person)
+- Dyson — cosponsor (person)
+- Fairly — cosponsor (person)
+- Frank — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerdes — cosponsor (person)
+- Guillen — cosponsor (person)
+- Hagenbuch — cosponsor (person)
+- Hancock — cosponsor (person)
+- Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Harris Davila — cosponsor (person)
+- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
+- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
+- Hefner — cosponsor (person)
+- Hickland — cosponsor (person)
+- Hinojosa, Adam — cosponsor (person)
+- Holt — cosponsor (person)
+- Hopper — cosponsor (person)
+- Hunter — cosponsor (person)
+- Isaac — cosponsor (person)
+- Kerwin — cosponsor (person)
+- King — cosponsor (person)
+- Kitzman — cosponsor (person)
+- Kolkhorst — cosponsor (person)
+- LaHood — cosponsor (person)
+- Landgraf — cosponsor (person)
+- Leo Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Little — cosponsor (person)
+- Lopez, Janie — cosponsor (person)
+- Lowe — cosponsor (person)
+- Lozano — cosponsor (person)
+- Luther — cosponsor (person)
+- McLaughlin — cosponsor (person)
+- McQueeney — cosponsor (person)
+- Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
+- Money — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
+- Noble — cosponsor (person)
+- Olcott — cosponsor (person)
+- Oliverson — cosponsor (person)
+- Orr — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul — cosponsor (person)
+- Pierson — cosponsor (person)
+- Richardson — cosponsor (person)
+- Schatzline — cosponsor (person)
+- Schoolcraft — cosponsor (person)
+- Shaheen — cosponsor (person)
+- Shofner — cosponsor (person)
+- Spiller — cosponsor (person)
+- Tepper — cosponsor (person)
+- Tinderholt — cosponsor (person)
+- Toth — cosponsor (person)
+- Vasut — cosponsor (person)
+- Villalobos — cosponsor (person)
+- Virdell — cosponsor (person)
+- Wharton — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-11-12** Filed `filing`
+- **2025-02-27** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-02-27** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-25** Considered in public hearing
+- **2025-04-25** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2025-04-25** Left pending in committee
+- **2025-04-30** Considered in public hearing
+- **2025-04-30** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-05** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
+- **2025-05-06** Committee report distributed
+- **2025-05-06** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2025-05-07** Considered in Calendars
+- **2025-05-09** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2025-05-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-05-10** Amendment fails of adoption `amendment-failure`
+- **2025-05-10** Record vote
+- **2025-05-10** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-10** Amendment tabled `deferral`
+- **2025-05-10** Record vote
+- **2025-05-10** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-10** Point of order withdrawn `withdrawal`
+- **2025-05-10** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-10** Passed to engrossment as amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-10** Record vote
+- **2025-05-10** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-12** Postponed
+- **2025-05-12** Laid out as postponed business
+- **2025-05-12** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2025-05-12** Point of order withdrawn (amendment) `withdrawal`
+- **2025-05-12** Amendment withdrawn `amendment-withdrawal, withdrawal`
+- **2025-05-12** Amendment tabled `deferral`
+- **2025-05-12** Record vote
+- **2025-05-12** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-12** Amendment tabled `deferral`
+- **2025-05-12** Record vote
+- **2025-05-12** Amendment tabled `deferral`
+- **2025-05-12** Record vote
+- **2025-05-12** Amendment tabled `deferral`
+- **2025-05-12** Record vote
+- **2025-05-12** Amendment tabled `deferral`
+- **2025-05-12** Record vote
+- **2025-05-12** Amendment tabled `deferral`
+- **2025-05-12** Record vote
+- **2025-05-12** Passed `passage`
+- **2025-05-12** Record vote
+- **2025-05-12** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-12** Reported engrossed
+- **2025-05-12** Received from the House `introduction`
+- **2025-05-13** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-05-13** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-15** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2025-05-15** Considered in public hearing
+- **2025-05-15** Testimony taken in committee
+- **2025-05-15** Left pending in committee
+- **2025-05-22** Considered in public hearing
+- **2025-05-22** Vote taken in committee
+- **2025-05-23** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-23** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2025-05-26** Co-sponsor authorized
+- **2025-05-26** Placed on intent calendar
+- **2025-05-27** Co-sponsor authorized
+- **2025-05-28** Co-sponsor authorized
+- **2025-05-28** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2025-05-28** Record vote
+- **2025-05-28** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-05-28** Record vote
+- **2025-05-28** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2025-05-28** Record vote
+- **2025-05-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-28** Passed `passage`
+- **2025-05-28** Record vote
+- **2025-05-28** Remarks ordered printed
+- **2025-05-28** Senate passage reported `passage`
+- **2025-05-28** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2025-05-28** Signed in the House `passage`
+- **2025-05-28** Signed in the Senate `passage`
+- **2025-05-30** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-20** Effective on 9/1/25 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c95a2c08-9f4a-4ff9-b33f-e58e97f94809`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+