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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to the purchase or acquisition of an interest in real property by certain aliens or foreign entities; creating a criminal offense; providing a civil penalty."
+description: "Relating to the purchase or acquisition of an interest in real property by certain aliens or foreign entities; creating a criminal offense; providing a civil penalty."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "89R"
+identifier: "SB 17"
+citation: "Texas SB 17 (89R)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ATTORNEY GENERAL (V2811)", "Agriculture (I0020)", "Aliens (I0032)", "INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (S0038)", "Property Interests--Real Property (I0595)", "SECRETARY OF STATE (V0042)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bettencourt", "Birdwell", "Campbell", "Creighton", "Flores", "Hagenbuch", "Hall", "Hefner", "Hinojosa, Adam", "Hinojosa, Juan \"Chuy\"", "Huffman", "King", "Kolkhorst", "McQueeney", "Metcalf", "Middleton", "Parker", "Patterson", "Schwertner", "Sparks", "Spiller"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 148
+vote_count: 9
+first_action: "2025-02-20"
+last_action: "2025-06-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6cc17dc1-077f-4356-8151-8989d2fb5035"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00001_SB00099/SB 17.xml"
+source_hash: "e478dcc4169a875b1693ae45edc447113cf8f6bfcfe3bf8e5339a41da456426b"
+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 17 (89R) — Relating to the purchase or acquisition of an interest in real property by certain aliens or foreign entities; creating a criminal offense; providing a civil penalty.
+
+## 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/SB00017I.HTM)
+2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00017E.HTM)
+3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00017H.HTM)
+4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00017S.HTM)
+5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00017F.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **64–74** (pass) · lower
+- passage — **24–7** (pass) · upper
+- passage — **85–57** (pass) · upper
+- passage — **86–59** (pass) · lower
+- passage — **24–7** (pass) · upper
+- passage — **23–8** (pass) · upper
+- passage — **85–60** (pass) · lower
+- passage — **85–57** (pass) · lower
+- passage — **89–56** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bettencourt — primary (person)
+- Birdwell — primary (person)
+- Campbell — primary (person)
+- Creighton — primary (person)
+- Flores — primary (person)
+- Hagenbuch — primary (person)
+- Hall — primary (person)
+- Hefner — primary (person)
+- Hinojosa, Adam — primary (person)
+- Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy" — primary (person)
+- Huffman — primary (person)
+- King — primary (person)
+- Kolkhorst — primary (person)
+- McQueeney — primary (person)
+- Metcalf — primary (person)
+- Middleton — primary (person)
+- Parker — primary (person)
+- Patterson — primary (person)
+- Schwertner — primary (person)
+- Sparks — primary (person)
+- Spiller — primary (person)
+- Alders — cosponsor (person)
+- Ashby — cosponsor (person)
+- Barry — cosponsor (person)
+- Bell, Cecil — cosponsor (person)
+- Bell, Keith — cosponsor (person)
+- Bonnen — cosponsor (person)
+- Buckley — cosponsor (person)
+- Bumgarner — cosponsor (person)
+- Cain — cosponsor (person)
+- Capriglione — cosponsor (person)
+- Cook — cosponsor (person)
+- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
+- Curry — cosponsor (person)
+- Darby — cosponsor (person)
+- DeAyala — cosponsor (person)
+- Dean — cosponsor (person)
+- Dorazio — cosponsor (person)
+- Dyson — cosponsor (person)
+- Fairly — cosponsor (person)
+- Gates — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerdes — cosponsor (person)
+- Geren — cosponsor (person)
+- Guillen — cosponsor (person)
+- Hancock — cosponsor (person)
+- Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Harris Davila — cosponsor (person)
+- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
+- Hickland — cosponsor (person)
+- Holt — cosponsor (person)
+- Hopper — cosponsor (person)
+- Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Hull — cosponsor (person)
+- Isaac — cosponsor (person)
+- Kitzman — cosponsor (person)
+- Lambert — cosponsor (person)
+- Landgraf — cosponsor (person)
+- Leach — cosponsor (person)
+- Leo Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Little — cosponsor (person)
+- Lopez, Janie — cosponsor (person)
+- Louderback — cosponsor (person)
+- Lowe — cosponsor (person)
+- Lujan — cosponsor (person)
+- Luther — cosponsor (person)
+- McLaughlin — cosponsor (person)
+- Meyer — cosponsor (person)
+- Nichols — cosponsor (person)
+- Noble — cosponsor (person)
+- Oliverson — cosponsor (person)
+- Orr — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul — cosponsor (person)
+- Paxton — cosponsor (person)
+- Phelan — cosponsor (person)
+- Pierson — cosponsor (person)
+- Richardson — cosponsor (person)
+- Schatzline — cosponsor (person)
+- Schoolcraft — cosponsor (person)
+- Shofner — cosponsor (person)
+- Slawson — cosponsor (person)
+- Smithee — cosponsor (person)
+- Swanson — cosponsor (person)
+- Tepper — cosponsor (person)
+- Toth — cosponsor (person)
+- Troxclair — 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.
+
+- **2025-02-20** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing, introduction`
+- **2025-02-20** Filed `filing`
+- **2025-02-20** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-02-20** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-25** Co-author authorized
+- **2025-03-06** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2025-03-06** Considered in public hearing
+- **2025-03-06** Testimony taken in committee
+- **2025-03-06** Left pending in committee
+- **2025-03-10** Considered in public hearing
+- **2025-03-10** Left pending in committee
+- **2025-03-13** Considered in public hearing
+- **2025-03-13** Vote taken in committee
+- **2025-03-17** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-17** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2025-03-18** Placed on intent calendar
+- **2025-03-19** Co-author authorized
+- **2025-03-19** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2025-03-19** Record vote
+- **2025-03-19** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-19** Record vote
+- **2025-03-19** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2025-03-19** Record vote
+- **2025-03-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-19** Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-19** Record vote
+- **2025-03-19** Reported engrossed
+- **2025-03-20** Received from the Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-04-09** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-04-09** Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-24** Scheduled for formal meeting on . . .
+- **2025-04-24** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2025-04-24** Committee substitute considered in committee `substitution`
+- **2025-04-24** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-01** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
+- **2025-05-01** Committee report distributed
+- **2025-05-01** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2025-05-02** Recommitted to committee
+- **2025-05-02** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2025-05-02** Committee substitute considered in committee `substitution`
+- **2025-05-02** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-06** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
+- **2025-05-06** Committee report distributed
+- **2025-05-06** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2025-05-06** Considered in Calendars
+- **2025-05-08** Placed on Major State Calendar
+- **2025-05-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-05-08** Postponed
+- **2025-05-08** Vote reconsidered
+- **2025-05-08** Motion withdrawn `withdrawal`
+- **2025-05-08** Postponed
+- **2025-05-08** Laid out as postponed business
+- **2025-05-08** Postponed
+- **2025-05-08** Laid out as postponed business
+- **2025-05-08** Point of order withdrawn `withdrawal`
+- **2025-05-08** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2025-05-08** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-08** Record vote
+- **2025-05-08** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-08** Amendment tabled `deferral`
+- **2025-05-08** Record vote
+- **2025-05-08** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-08** Amendment tabled `deferral`
+- **2025-05-08** Record vote
+- **2025-05-08** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-08** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-08** Record vote
+- **2025-05-08** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-08** Reason for vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-08** Amendment tabled `deferral`
+- **2025-05-08** Record vote
+- **2025-05-08** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-08** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2025-05-08** Amendment amended `amendment-amendment`
+- **2025-05-08** Record vote
+- **2025-05-08** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-08** Amendment adopted as amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-08** Record vote
+- **2025-05-08** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-08** Amendment tabled `deferral`
+- **2025-05-08** Record vote
+- **2025-05-08** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-08** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-08** Record vote
+- **2025-05-08** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-08** Amendment tabled `deferral`
+- **2025-05-08** Record vote
+- **2025-05-08** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-08** Point of order withdrawn `withdrawal`
+- **2025-05-08** Amendment tabled `deferral`
+- **2025-05-08** Record vote
+- **2025-05-08** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-08** Amendment tabled `deferral`
+- **2025-05-08** Record vote
+- **2025-05-08** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-08** Amendment tabled `deferral`
+- **2025-05-08** Record vote
+- **2025-05-08** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-08** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-08** Record vote
+- **2025-05-08** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-08** Record vote
+- **2025-05-08** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-08** Passed to 3rd reading as amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-08** Record vote
+- **2025-05-08** Reason for vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-09** Rules suspended
+- **2025-05-09** Additional sponsor(s) authorized
+- **2025-05-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-09** Amendment fails of adoption `amendment-failure`
+- **2025-05-09** Record vote
+- **2025-05-09** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-09** Amendment fails of adoption `amendment-failure`
+- **2025-05-09** Record vote
+- **2025-05-09** Amendment fails of adoption `amendment-failure`
+- **2025-05-09** Record vote
+- **2025-05-09** Passed `passage`
+- **2025-05-09** Record vote
+- **2025-05-09** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-12** House passage as amended reported `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-14** House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
+- **2025-05-14** Read
+- **2025-05-14** Senate refuses to concur
+- **2025-05-14** Senate requests conference committee
+- **2025-05-14** Senate appoints conferees
+- **2025-05-14** Senate refuses to concur-reported
+- **2025-05-14** Senate requests conference committee-reported
+- **2025-05-14** Senate appoints conferees-reported
+- **2025-05-19** House grants request for conference committee
+- **2025-05-19** House appoints conferees
+- **2025-05-20** House grants request for conf comm-reported
+- **2025-05-20** House appoints conferees-reported
+- **2025-05-23** Conference committee report filed `filing`
+- **2025-05-24** Conf. Comm. Report distributed
+- **2025-05-29** House adopts conference committee report `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-29** Record vote
+- **2025-05-29** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-29** Reason for vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-29** House adopts conf. comm. report-reported
+- **2025-05-30** Senate adopts conference committee report `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-30** Record vote
+- **2025-05-31** Senate adopts conf. comm. report-reported
+- **2025-05-31** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2025-05-31** Signed in the Senate `passage`
+- **2025-06-01** Signed in the House `passage`
+- **2025-06-01** 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/6cc17dc1-077f-4356-8151-8989d2fb5035`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+