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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to municipal and county firearm buyback programs."
+description: "Relating to municipal and county firearm buyback programs."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "89R"
+identifier: "HB 3053"
+citation: "Texas HB 3053 (89R)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["City Government--General (I0060)", "County Government--General (I0096)", "Weapons (I0887)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ashby", "Cain", "Hall", "Hickland", "Louderback", "Virdell"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 50
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-02-19"
+last_action: "2025-06-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/63e2d476-0f08-4c7e-83b2-f67be1f519f0"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/house_bills/HB03000_HB03099/HB 3053.xml"
+source_hash: "672f58a1d5f724e9ad71febccc9b99b0aba82955af6467984b946a3759837b6b"
+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 3053 (89R) — Relating to municipal and county firearm buyback programs.
+
+## 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/HB03053I.HTM)
+2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB03053E.HTM)
+3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB03053H.HTM)
+4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB03053S.HTM)
+5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB03053F.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **85–56** (pass) · lower
+- passage — **90–49** (pass) · lower
+- passage — **81–56** (pass) · lower
+- passage — **20–11** (pass) · upper
+- passage — **20–11** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ashby — primary (person)
+- Cain — primary (person)
+- Hall — primary (person)
+- Hickland — primary (person)
+- Louderback — primary (person)
+- Virdell — primary (person)
+- Bumgarner — cosponsor (person)
+- Creighton — cosponsor (person)
+- Dorazio — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerdes — cosponsor (person)
+- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
+- Hinojosa, Adam — cosponsor (person)
+- Hopper — cosponsor (person)
+- Hull — cosponsor (person)
+- Kerwin — cosponsor (person)
+- Kolkhorst — cosponsor (person)
+- Leo Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Little — cosponsor (person)
+- Lowe — cosponsor (person)
+- Luther — cosponsor (person)
+- McLaughlin — cosponsor (person)
+- Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
+- Money — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
+- Oliverson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pierson — cosponsor (person)
+- Richardson — cosponsor (person)
+- Schatzline — cosponsor (person)
+- Shofner — cosponsor (person)
+- Spiller — cosponsor (person)
+- Tinderholt — cosponsor (person)
+- Toth — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-19** Filed `filing`
+- **2025-03-20** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-03-20** Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-14** Considered in public hearing
+- **2025-04-14** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2025-04-14** 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`
+- **2025-05-05** Committee report distributed
+- **2025-05-05** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2025-05-07** Considered in Calendars
+- **2025-05-09** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2025-05-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-05-12** Passed to engrossment
+- **2025-05-12** Record vote
+- **2025-05-12** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-13** Passed `passage`
+- **2025-05-13** Record vote
+- **2025-05-13** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-13** Reported engrossed
+- **2025-05-14** Received from the House `introduction`
+- **2025-05-19** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-05-19** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-21** Posting rule suspended
+- **2025-05-22** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **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
+- **2025-05-26** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2025-05-26** Record vote
+- **2025-05-26** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-05-26** Record vote
+- **2025-05-28** Co-sponsor authorized
+- **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** 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/63e2d476-0f08-4c7e-83b2-f67be1f519f0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
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