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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to severance pay for certain political subdivision employees."
+description: "Relating to severance pay for certain political subdivision employees."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "89R"
+identifier: "SB 2237"
+citation: "Texas SB 2237 (89R)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["City Government--Employees/Officers (I0061)", "County Government--Employees/Officers (I0095)", "Political Subdivisions (I0588)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bell, Cecil", "Bettencourt"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 48
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-11"
+last_action: "2025-06-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bdacc6dd-52f4-4767-b4f1-ec81ef0687ac"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB02200_SB02299/SB 2237.xml"
+source_hash: "bd0a42f6ee29e72deb1d9157e020cc34d392de67f11c0097daecdc7cca8e4767"
+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 2237 (89R) — Relating to severance pay for certain political subdivision employees.
+
+## 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/SB02237I.HTM)
+2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB02237E.HTM)
+3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB02237H.HTM)
+4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB02237S.HTM)
+5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB02237F.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **124–13** (pass) · lower
+- passage — **117–20** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bell, Cecil — primary (person)
+- Bettencourt — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-11** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing, introduction`
+- **2025-03-11** Filed `filing`
+- **2025-03-25** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-03-25** Referred to Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-31** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2025-03-31** Considered in public hearing
+- **2025-03-31** Testimony taken in committee
+- **2025-03-31** Left pending in committee
+- **2025-04-03** Considered in public hearing
+- **2025-04-03** Vote taken in committee
+- **2025-04-07** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-07** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
+- **2025-04-07** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2025-04-16** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
+- **2025-04-16** Laid before the Senate `receipt`
+- **2025-04-16** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-16** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-04-16** Three day rule suspended
+- **2025-04-16** Record vote
+- **2025-04-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-16** Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-16** Record vote
+- **2025-04-16** Reported engrossed
+- **2025-04-17** Received from the Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-04-22** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-04-22** Referred to Intergovernmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-28** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2025-04-28** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-09** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
+- **2025-05-09** Committee report distributed
+- **2025-05-10** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2025-05-19** Considered in Calendars
+- **2025-05-21** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2025-05-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-05-22** Passed to 3rd reading
+- **2025-05-22** Record vote
+- **2025-05-22** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-23** Passed `passage`
+- **2025-05-23** Record vote
+- **2025-05-23** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-23** House passage reported `passage`
+- **2025-05-23** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2025-05-26** Signed in the Senate `passage`
+- **2025-05-26** Signed in the House `passage`
+- **2025-05-27** 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/bdacc6dd-52f4-4767-b4f1-ec81ef0687ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
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