---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the Health and Human Services Commission developing a plan to contract with a public institution of higher education to operate a certain state hospital."
description: "Relating to the Health and Human Services Commission developing a plan to contract with a public institution of higher education to operate a certain state hospital."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "SB 2111"
citation: "Texas SB 2111 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education--Higher--Institutions & Programs (I0223)", "Hospitals (I0400)", "Mental Health & Substance Abuse (I0019)", "HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION (V0177)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Price", "Watson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 50
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-03-07"
last_action: "2019-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ea6a0998-6e3b-4fcb-9629-678d830709d8"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB02100_SB02199/SB 2111.xml"
source_hash: "99efa810f011fdec499931881f65e95e27fb674c061ae8b48f0a35957a6cab80"
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 2111 (86) — Relating to the Health and Human Services Commission developing a plan to contract with a public institution of higher education to operate a certain state hospital.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/86R/billtext/html/SB02111I.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **141–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Price — primary (person)
- Watson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-07** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
- **2019-03-07** Filed `filing`
- **2019-03-21** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-21** Referred to Health & Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-16** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-04-16** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-16** Testimony taken in committee
- **2019-04-16** Left pending in committee
- **2019-04-23** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-24** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-24** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-04-24** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-04-29** Placed on intent calendar
- **2019-04-30** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- **2019-04-30** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
- **2019-04-30** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-04-30** Three day rule suspended
- **2019-04-30** Record vote
- **2019-04-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-30** Passed `passage`
- **2019-04-30** Record vote
- **2019-04-30** Reported engrossed
- **2019-04-30** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2019-05-06** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-05-06** Referred to Public Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-07** Posting rule suspended
- **2019-05-08** Meeting cancelled
- **2019-05-10** Considered in formal meeting
- **2019-05-10** Amendment(s) considered in committee
- **2019-05-10** Reported favorably as amended `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-13** Considered in formal meeting
- **2019-05-13** Vote reconsidered in committee
- **2019-05-13** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
- **2019-05-15** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-05-15** Committee report distributed
- **2019-05-16** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2019-05-17** Considered in Calendars
- **2019-05-20** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2019-05-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-20** Passed to 3rd reading
- **2019-05-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-21** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-21** Record vote
- **2019-05-21** House passage reported
- **2019-05-21** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-23** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-25** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-25** 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/ea6a0998-6e3b-4fcb-9629-678d830709d8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).