---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking at public and private postsecondary educational institutions; providing an administrative penalty."
description: "Relating to sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking at public and private postsecondary educational institutions; providing an administrative penalty."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "HB 1735"
citation: "Texas HB 1735 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes--Against Persons--Sexual (I0171)", "Education--Higher--General (I0231)", "Education--Higher--Private Schools (I0238)", "SEXUAL ASSAULT (S4375)", "SEXUAL HARASSMENT (S4376)", "STALKING (S0044)", "HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD", "TEXAS (V4280)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Button", "Howard", "Lozano", "Stucky", "Watson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 77
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-02-13"
last_action: "2019-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e759ea3-3777-40df-8a6b-993bd86dae7b"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB01700_HB01799/HB 1735.xml"
source_hash: "b033337d339c3fe1e0fbed0f8bf5de6c9cc0038b9b708f5a98330c7242a1075c"
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 1735 (86) — Relating to sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking at public and private postsecondary educational institutions; providing an administrative 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/86R/billtext/html/HB01735I.HTM)

## Votes

- other — **109–30** (fail) · upper
- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- passage — **113–29** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Button — primary (person)
- Howard — primary (person)
- Lozano — primary (person)
- Stucky — primary (person)
- Watson — primary (person)
- Blanco — cosponsor (person)
- Meyer — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-13** Filed `filing`
- **2019-03-04** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-04** Referred to Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-13** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-03-13** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2019-03-13** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2019-03-13** Left pending in committee
- **2019-03-26** Considered in formal meeting
- **2019-03-26** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2019-03-26** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-04-04** Committee report distributed
- **2019-04-04** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2019-04-08** Considered in Calendars
- **2019-04-12** Considered in Calendars
- **2019-04-16** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2019-04-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-16** Passed to engrossment
- **2019-04-16** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-04-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-17** Passed `passage`
- **2019-04-17** Record vote
- **2019-04-17** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-04-17** Reported engrossed
- **2019-04-23** Received from the House `introduction`
- **2019-04-29** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-04-29** Referred to Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-30** Posting rule suspended
- **2019-05-01** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-05-01** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-05-01** Testimony taken in committee
- **2019-05-01** Left pending in committee
- **2019-05-08** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-05-13** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-13** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-05-13** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-05-15** Placed on intent calendar
- **2019-05-16** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- **2019-05-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-16** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2019-05-16** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-05-16** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-16** Passed to 3rd reading as amended
- **2019-05-16** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-16** Three day rule suspended
- **2019-05-16** Record vote
- **2019-05-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-16** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-16** Record vote
- **2019-05-17** Senate passage as amended reported
- **2019-05-17** Senate Amendments distributed
- **2019-05-21** Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
- **2019-05-23** House refuses to concur in Senate amendments
- **2019-05-23** House requests conference committee
- **2019-05-23** House appoints conferees
- **2019-05-23** House refuses to concur-reported
- **2019-05-23** House requests conference committee-reported
- **2019-05-23** House appoints conferees-reported
- **2019-05-24** Senate grants request for conference comm.
- **2019-05-24** Senate appoints conferees
- **2019-05-24** Senate grants request for conf comm-reported
- **2019-05-24** Senate appoints conferees-reported
- **2019-05-25** Conference committee report filed
- **2019-05-25** Conf. Comm. Report distributed
- **2019-05-26** Senate adopts conference committee report
- **2019-05-26** Record vote
- **2019-05-26** Senate adopts conf. comm. report-reported
- **2019-05-26** House adopts conference committee report
- **2019-05-26** Record vote
- **2019-05-26** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-26** House adopts conf. comm. report-reported
- **2019-05-26** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-27** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-27** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-29** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-14** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-14** Effective on 9/1/19 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e759ea3-3777-40df-8a6b-993bd86dae7b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).