---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to payment card skimmers on motor fuel dispensers and to creating a payment fraud fusion center; imposing civil penalties; creating criminal offenses."
description: "Relating to payment card skimmers on motor fuel dispensers and to creating a payment fraud fusion center; imposing civil penalties; creating criminal offenses."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "HB 2945"
citation: "Texas HB 2945 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["TYLER", "CITY OF (G4219)", "Agriculture (I0020)", "Consumer Protection (I0080)", "Financial--General (I0365)", "Law Enforcement (I0510)", "CREDIT & DEBIT CARDS (S0388)", "FRAUD (S0166)", "AGRICULTURE", "DEPARTMENT OF (V0566)", "ATTORNEY GENERAL (V2811)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Goldman", "Longoria", "Perez", "Price", "Thompson, Senfronia", "Zaffirini"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 54
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-03-04"
last_action: "2019-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1626fa21-995b-44e5-8bd3-d58541aaa336"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB02900_HB02999/HB 2945.xml"
source_hash: "f498560249f8993e5d5a5ffcdeeec2dc2a7d530694b3172a5ab09a408d5bd2f7"
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 2945 (86) — Relating to payment card skimmers on motor fuel dispensers and to creating a payment fraud fusion center; imposing civil penalties; creating criminal offenses.

## 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/HB02945I.HTM)

## Votes

- other — **145–0** (fail) · upper
- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- passage — **141–2** (pass) · lower
- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- passage — **145–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Goldman — primary (person)
- Longoria — primary (person)
- Perez — primary (person)
- Price — primary (person)
- Thompson, Senfronia — primary (person)
- Zaffirini — primary (person)
- Allen — cosponsor (person)
- Allison — cosponsor (person)
- Anchia — cosponsor (person)
- Anderson, Charles "Doc" — cosponsor (person)
- Bell, Cecil — cosponsor (person)
- Bernal — cosponsor (person)
- Blanco — cosponsor (person)
- Bohac — cosponsor (person)
- Bowers — cosponsor (person)
- Buckley — cosponsor (person)
- Bucy — cosponsor (person)
- Cain — cosponsor (person)
- Calanni — cosponsor (person)
- Canales — cosponsor (person)
- Capriglione — cosponsor (person)
- Clardy — cosponsor (person)
- Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- Collier — cosponsor (person)
- Cortez — cosponsor (person)
- Cyrier — cosponsor (person)
- Davis, Sarah — cosponsor (person)
- Dominguez — cosponsor (person)
- Dutton — cosponsor (person)
- Farrar — cosponsor (person)
- Fierro — cosponsor (person)
- Flynn — cosponsor (person)
- Frullo — cosponsor (person)
- Gervin-Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
- González, Jessica — cosponsor (person)
- González, Mary — cosponsor (person)
- Goodwin — cosponsor (person)
- Guerra — cosponsor (person)
- Guillen — cosponsor (person)
- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
- Harless — cosponsor (person)
- Hefner — cosponsor (person)
- Hernandez — cosponsor (person)
- Herrero — cosponsor (person)
- Hinojosa — cosponsor (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Israel — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson, Jarvis — cosponsor (person)
- Kacal — cosponsor (person)
- Kuempel — cosponsor (person)
- Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Leman — cosponsor (person)
- Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Lozano — cosponsor (person)
- Martinez — cosponsor (person)
- Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
- Meza — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Minjarez — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Muñoz, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Neave — cosponsor (person)
- Nevárez — cosponsor (person)
- Ortega — cosponsor (person)
- Pacheco — cosponsor (person)
- Paul — cosponsor (person)
- Ramos — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond — cosponsor (person)
- Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
- Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)
- Romero, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenthal — cosponsor (person)
- Schaefer — cosponsor (person)
- Sheffield — cosponsor (person)
- Sherman, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
- Stephenson — cosponsor (person)
- Stucky — cosponsor (person)
- Talarico — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson, Ed — cosponsor (person)
- Toth — cosponsor (person)
- Turner, Chris — cosponsor (person)
- Turner, John — cosponsor (person)
- Vo — cosponsor (person)
- Walle — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)
- Wu — cosponsor (person)
- Zerwas — cosponsor (person)
- Zwiener — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-04** Filed `filing`
- **2019-03-12** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-12** Referred to Pensions, Investments & Financial Services `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-11** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-11** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2019-04-11** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2019-04-11** Left pending in committee
- **2019-04-16** Considered in formal meeting
- **2019-04-16** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2019-04-16** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-18** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-04-22** Committee report distributed
- **2019-04-22** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2019-04-25** Considered in Calendars
- **2019-04-29** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2019-05-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-01** Passed to engrossment
- **2019-05-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-02** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Record vote
- **2019-05-02** Reported engrossed
- **2019-05-02** Received from the House `introduction`
- **2019-05-03** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-05-03** Referred to Business & Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-07** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-05-09** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-09** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-05-09** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-05-13** Placed on intent calendar
- **2019-05-14** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- **2019-05-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-14** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2019-05-14** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-05-14** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-14** Passed to 3rd reading as amended
- **2019-05-14** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-14** Three day rule suspended
- **2019-05-14** Record vote
- **2019-05-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-14** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-14** Record vote
- **2019-05-15** Senate passage as amended reported
- **2019-05-15** Senate Amendments distributed
- **2019-05-15** Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
- **2019-05-22** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
- **2019-05-22** Record vote
- **2019-05-22** Text of Senate Amendment(s)
- **2019-05-22** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported
- **2019-05-23** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-24** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-25** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-26** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-10** 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/1626fa21-995b-44e5-8bd3-d58541aaa336`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).