---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the licensing and regulation of certain pharmacies; providing an administrative penalty."
description: "Relating to the licensing and regulation of certain pharmacies; providing an administrative penalty."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "HB 3496"
citation: "Texas HB 3496 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Financial--General (I0365)", "Occupational Regulation--Health Occupations (I0540)", "PHARMACIES & PHARMACISTS (S1192)", "PHARMACY", "TEXAS STATE BOARD OF (V0022)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Creighton", "Sheffield"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 52
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-03-06"
last_action: "2019-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a3f111d-56b1-4ce8-8e7c-574da9abccdd"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB03400_HB03499/HB 3496.xml"
source_hash: "b2197ef3a78a9ba0ca8e55ab62a48bbf22956d251d54526c71c0e10934cf2f65"
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 3496 (86) — Relating to the licensing and regulation of certain pharmacies; 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://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/86R/billtext/html/HB03496I.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **140–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Creighton — primary (person)
- Sheffield — primary (person)
- Nichols — cosponsor (person)
- Schwertner — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-06** Filed `filing`
- **2019-03-18** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-18** Referred to Public Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-17** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-17** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2019-04-17** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2019-04-17** Left pending in committee
- **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
- **2019-05-06** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2019-05-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-07** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-05-07** Passed to engrossment as amended
- **2019-05-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-08** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-08** Record vote
- **2019-05-08** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-08** Reported engrossed
- **2019-05-08** Received from the House `introduction`
- **2019-05-10** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-05-10** 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
- **2019-05-19** Co-sponsor authorized
- **2019-05-20** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-20** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-05-22** Placed on intent calendar
- **2019-05-22** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- **2019-05-22** Vote recorded in Journal
- **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
- **2019-05-22** Senate passage reported
- **2019-05-22** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-23** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-24** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-25** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-10** Effective on 1/1/20 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3a3f111d-56b1-4ce8-8e7c-574da9abccdd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).