---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the regulation of the practice of physical therapy."
description: "Relating to the regulation of the practice of physical therapy."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "HB 29"
citation: "Texas HB 29 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Occupational Regulation--Health Occupations (I0540)", "PHYSICAL THERAPISTS (S6112)", "BOARD OF PHYSICAL THERAPY EXAMINERS", "TEXAS (V0946)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Coleman", "Hughes", "Klick", "Minjarez", "Moody", "Parker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 54
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-11-12"
last_action: "2019-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5f732fa-9ef4-486d-a013-eb5f5e23cb4f"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00001_HB00099/HB 29.xml"
source_hash: "0a56b96342da2ed5a3d6168e48f96b6d78083efe8810e9b3b350e387eb7c3bbd"
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 29 (86) — Relating to the regulation of the practice of physical therapy.

## 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/HB00029I.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Coleman — primary (person)
- Hughes — primary (person)
- Klick — primary (person)
- Minjarez — primary (person)
- Moody — primary (person)
- Parker — primary (person)
- Bernal — cosponsor (person)
- Biedermann — cosponsor (person)
- Darby — cosponsor (person)
- Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
- Farrar — cosponsor (person)
- Flynn — cosponsor (person)
- Gervin-Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
- Goldman — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Hernandez — cosponsor (person)
- Herrero — cosponsor (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Israel — cosponsor (person)
- King, Phil — cosponsor (person)
- Krause — cosponsor (person)
- Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Landgraf — cosponsor (person)
- Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Martinez — cosponsor (person)
- Menéndez — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Pacheco — cosponsor (person)
- Ramos — cosponsor (person)
- Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
- Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenthal — cosponsor (person)
- Sanford — cosponsor (person)
- Schaefer — cosponsor (person)
- Swanson — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson, Ed — cosponsor (person)
- Tinderholt — cosponsor (person)
- VanDeaver — cosponsor (person)
- Walle — cosponsor (person)
- White — cosponsor (person)
- Zedler — cosponsor (person)
- Zwiener — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-11-12** Filed `filing`
- **2019-02-11** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-11** Referred to Public Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-13** Referred directly to subcommittee by chair
- **2019-04-04** Scheduled for public hearing in s/c on . . .
- **2019-04-04** Considered by s/c in public hearing
- **2019-04-04** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in subcommittee
- **2019-04-04** Left pending in subcommittee
- **2019-04-24** Recalled from subcommittee
- **2019-04-24** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-24** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2019-04-24** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-29** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-04-30** Committee report distributed
- **2019-04-30** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2019-05-03** Considered in Calendars
- **2019-05-07** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2019-05-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-08** Passed to engrossment
- **2019-05-08** Record vote
- **2019-05-08** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-09** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-09** Record vote
- **2019-05-09** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-09** Reported engrossed
- **2019-05-09** Received from the House `introduction`
- **2019-05-13** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-05-13** Referred to Business & Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-15** Posting rule suspended
- **2019-05-16** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-05-16** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-05-16** Left pending in committee
- **2019-05-17** Co-sponsor authorized
- **2019-05-17** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-05-20** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-20** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-05-20** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-05-22** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-05-22** Laid before the Senate
- **2019-05-22** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
- **2019-05-22** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-22** Three day rule suspended
- **2019-05-22** Record vote
- **2019-05-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-22** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-22** Record vote
- **2019-05-23** Senate passage reported
- **2019-05-24** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-26** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-27** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-28** 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/f5f732fa-9ef4-486d-a013-eb5f5e23cb4f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).