---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the status of personal automobile or residential property insurance policy summary documents."
description: "Relating to the status of personal automobile or residential property insurance policy summary documents."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "HB 1555"
citation: "Texas HB 1555 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance--General (I0445)", "Insurance--Motor Vehicles (I0435)", "Insurance--Property & Casualty (I0442)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Smithee", "Zaffirini"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 49
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-02-08"
last_action: "2019-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56d7a004-1e72-4af0-a514-c1dc632e7bf0"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB01500_HB01599/HB 1555.xml"
source_hash: "64844b0a3548635264653a0214bfc48e2c66f294e1a68b7b39f0b8d7e054d75c"
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 1555 (86) — Relating to the status of personal automobile or residential property insurance policy summary documents.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/86R/billtext/html/HB01555I.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **141–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Smithee — primary (person)
- Zaffirini — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-02-08** Filed `filing`
- **2019-03-04** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-04** Referred to Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-03-12** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2019-03-12** Left pending in committee
- **2019-03-19** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-03-19** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2019-03-19** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-04-01** Committee report distributed
- **2019-04-02** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2019-04-05** Considered in Calendars
- **2019-04-08** Considered in Calendars
- **2019-04-11** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2019-04-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-11** Passed to engrossment
- **2019-04-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-12** Passed `passage`
- **2019-04-12** Record vote
- **2019-04-12** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-04-12** Reported engrossed
- **2019-04-15** Received from the House `introduction`
- **2019-04-16** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-04-16** Referred to Business & Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-30** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-04-30** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-30** Testimony taken in committee
- **2019-04-30** Left pending in committee
- **2019-05-02** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-05-02** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-02** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-05-02** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-05-10** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-05-10** Laid before the Senate
- **2019-05-10** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
- **2019-05-10** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-10** Three day rule suspended
- **2019-05-10** Record vote
- **2019-05-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-10** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-10** Record vote
- **2019-05-10** Senate passage reported
- **2019-05-10** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-13** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-14** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-14** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-23** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-23** Effective immediately

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/56d7a004-1e72-4af0-a514-c1dc632e7bf0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).