---
type: "Bill"
title: "Designating September as Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Month for a 10-year period beginning in 2019."
description: "Designating September as Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Month for a 10-year period beginning in 2019."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "HCR 117"
citation: "Texas HCR 117 (86)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["SICKLE CELL DISEASE AWARENESS MONTH (H1709)", "Resolutions--Official Designations--10-Year Significant Dates (I0016)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Johnson, Jarvis", "Miles"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 34
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-03-06"
last_action: "2019-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a6108cb9-ad4f-45e7-8a68-3b5a1d38019d"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_concurrent_resolutions/HCR00100_HCR00199/HCR 117.xml"
source_hash: "34bcd54032b4d7c5e9302bbde851b771489224b9c7e9631005c22fe6c1678b6a"
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 HCR 117 (86) — Designating September as Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Month for a 10-year period beginning in 2019.

## 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/HC00117I.HTM)

## Sponsors

- Johnson, Jarvis — primary (person)
- Miles — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-06** Filed `filing`
- **2019-03-12** Referred to Public Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-24** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2019-04-24** Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-26** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-04-28** Committee report distributed
- **2019-04-28** Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
- **2019-04-30** Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
- **2019-05-03** Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
- **2019-05-03** Laid before the House
- **2019-05-03** Adopted `passage`
- **2019-05-03** Record vote
- **2019-05-03** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-06** Received from the House `introduction`
- **2019-05-07** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-05-07** Referred to Administration `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-17** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-05-17** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-05-19** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-19** 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 `reading-2`
- **2019-05-22** Adopted `passage`
- **2019-05-22** Vote recorded in Journal
- **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`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a6108cb9-ad4f-45e7-8a68-3b5a1d38019d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).