---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to invoices and payments under certain state contracts for outside legal services."
description: "Relating to invoices and payments under certain state contracts for outside legal services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "SB 1370"
citation: "Texas SB 1370 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--State (I0362)", "Lawyers (I0515)", "State Agencies", "Boards & Commissions (I0749)", "ATTORNEY GENERAL (V2811)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ashby", "Nichols"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 42
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-03-01"
last_action: "2019-06-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8df31bb0-8623-4ad9-87b2-f1f02427ce59"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB01300_SB01399/SB 1370.xml"
source_hash: "4f74ab0a0c94ac3367d85a40b53a302d15d94533d3d967c618b01462184571d3"
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 SB 1370 (86) — Relating to invoices and payments under certain state contracts for outside legal services.

## 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/SB01370I.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **130–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ashby — primary (person)
- Nichols — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-01** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
- **2019-03-01** Filed `filing`
- **2019-03-14** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-14** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-15** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-04-15** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-17** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-17** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-04-17** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-04-24** Placed on intent calendar
- **2019-04-25** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- **2019-04-25** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
- **2019-04-25** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-04-25** Three day rule suspended
- **2019-04-25** Record vote
- **2019-04-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-25** Passed `passage`
- **2019-04-25** Record vote
- **2019-04-25** Reported engrossed
- **2019-04-25** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2019-04-29** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-04-29** Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-06** Withdrawn from schedule
- **2019-05-02** Considered in formal meeting
- **2019-05-02** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
- **2019-05-06** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-05-06** Committee report distributed
- **2019-05-07** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2019-05-13** Considered in Calendars
- **2019-05-15** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2019-05-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-15** Passed to 3rd reading
- **2019-05-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-16** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-16** Record vote
- **2019-05-16** House passage reported
- **2019-05-16** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-17** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-20** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-20** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-02** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-02** 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/8df31bb0-8623-4ad9-87b2-f1f02427ce59`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).