---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to emergency contact and medical information maintained by the Department of Public Safety."
description: "Relating to emergency contact and medical information maintained by the Department of Public Safety."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "SB 1764"
citation: "Texas SB 1764 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles & Traffic--Driver's Licenses (I0840)", "PUBLIC SAFETY", "DEPARTMENT OF (V0251)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Price", "Zaffirini"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 42
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-03-06"
last_action: "2019-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/542c35e1-d807-4e4d-a8b0-2b88d1dfc4e6"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB01700_SB01799/SB 1764.xml"
source_hash: "a92f62f0471d35899c30e1c447413cd10fedf0fc7041056197b3934cef370e09"
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 1764 (86) — Relating to emergency contact and medical information maintained by the Department of Public Safety.

## 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/SB01764I.HTM)

## Sponsors

- Price — primary (person)
- Zaffirini — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-06** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
- **2019-03-06** Filed `filing`
- **2019-03-14** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-14** Referred to Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-04-03** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-04** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-04-04** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-04-11** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-04-11** Laid before the Senate
- **2019-04-11** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
- **2019-04-11** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-04-11** Three day rule suspended
- **2019-04-11** Record vote
- **2019-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-11** Passed `passage`
- **2019-04-11** Record vote
- **2019-04-11** Reported engrossed
- **2019-04-11** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2019-04-12** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-04-12** Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** Considered in public hearing
- **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
- **2019-04-26** Committee report distributed
- **2019-04-28** Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
- **2019-05-03** Laid out in lieu of companion
- **2019-05-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-03** Passed to 3rd reading
- **2019-05-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-03** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-03** Record vote
- **2019-05-03** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-06** House passage reported
- **2019-05-06** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-07** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-08** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-08** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-20** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-20** 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/542c35e1-d807-4e4d-a8b0-2b88d1dfc4e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).