---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to liability, payment, and benefits for certain workers' compensation claims."
description: "Relating to liability, payment, and benefits for certain workers' compensation claims."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "SB 2551"
citation: "Texas SB 2551 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Fire Fighters & Police--General (I0370)", "Health--Emergency Services & Personnel (I0384)", "Labor--Workers' Compensation (I0470)", "Political Subdivisions (I0588)", "CANCER (S0658)", "WORKERS' COMPENSATION", "TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF (V0230)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burrows", "Hinojosa", "Leach", "Longoria", "Meyer", "Moody"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 77
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-04-22"
last_action: "2019-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/096ea6a7-d775-45bb-99d3-02d6c2d81c46"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB02500_SB02599/SB 2551.xml"
source_hash: "ad8e04f699566000e61d7342f2fbbeb058268bdb3ae74de9278423ad565705ef"
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 2551 (86) — Relating to liability, payment, and benefits for certain workers' compensation claims.

## 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/SB02551I.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **142–2** (pass) · lower
- other — **140–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Burrows — primary (person)
- Hinojosa — primary (person)
- Leach — primary (person)
- Longoria — primary (person)
- Meyer — primary (person)
- Moody — primary (person)
- Ashby — cosponsor (person)
- Bailes — cosponsor (person)
- Blanco — cosponsor (person)
- Button — cosponsor (person)
- Calanni — cosponsor (person)
- Canales — cosponsor (person)
- Capriglione — cosponsor (person)
- Cole — cosponsor (person)
- Cyrier — cosponsor (person)
- Dominguez — cosponsor (person)
- Farrar — cosponsor (person)
- Fierro — cosponsor (person)
- González, Mary — cosponsor (person)
- Guerra — cosponsor (person)
- Herrero — cosponsor (person)
- Holland — cosponsor (person)
- Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson, Jarvis — cosponsor (person)
- King, Ken — cosponsor (person)
- King, Tracy O. — cosponsor (person)
- Krause — cosponsor (person)
- Kuempel — cosponsor (person)
- Landgraf — cosponsor (person)
- Lucio — cosponsor (person)
- Martinez — cosponsor (person)
- Menéndez — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Muñoz, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Ortega — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Perez — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond — cosponsor (person)
- Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
- Sanford — cosponsor (person)
- Shaheen — cosponsor (person)
- Tinderholt — cosponsor (person)
- Turner, Chris — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-04-22** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
- **2019-04-23** Permission to introduce
- **2019-04-23** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-04-23** Referred to Business & Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-30** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-04-30** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-30** Testimony taken in committee
- **2019-05-02** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-02** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-05-06** Placed on intent calendar
- **2019-05-07** Co-author authorized
- **2019-05-07** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- **2019-05-07** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-07** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
- **2019-05-07** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-07** Three day rule suspended
- **2019-05-07** Record vote
- **2019-05-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-07** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-07** Record vote
- **2019-05-07** Reported engrossed
- **2019-05-07** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2019-05-09** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-05-09** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-10** Posting rule suspended
- **2019-05-13** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-05-13** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2019-05-13** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2019-05-13** Left pending in committee
- **2019-05-14** Considered in formal meeting
- **2019-05-14** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2019-05-14** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-15** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-05-16** 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** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-05-20** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-05-20** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-05-20** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2019-05-20** Point of order withdrawn (amendment)
- **2019-05-20** Amendment withdrawn `amendment-withdrawal`
- **2019-05-20** Passed to 3rd reading as amended
- **2019-05-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-21** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-21** Record vote
- **2019-05-21** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-21** House passage as amended reported
- **2019-05-23** House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
- **2019-05-23** Read
- **2019-05-23** Senate refuses to concur
- **2019-05-23** Senate requests conference committee
- **2019-05-23** Senate appoints conferees
- **2019-05-23** Senate refuses to concur-reported
- **2019-05-23** Senate requests conference committee-reported
- **2019-05-23** Senate appoints conferees-reported
- **2019-05-23** House grants request for conference committee
- **2019-05-23** House appoints conferees
- **2019-05-23** House grants request for conf comm-reported
- **2019-05-23** House appoints conferees-reported
- **2019-05-25** Conference committee report filed
- **2019-05-25** Conf. Comm. Report distributed
- **2019-05-26** Senate adopts conference committee report
- **2019-05-26** Record vote
- **2019-05-26** Senate adopts conf. comm. report-reported
- **2019-05-26** House adopts conference committee report
- **2019-05-26** Record vote
- **2019-05-26** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-26** House adopts conf. comm. report-reported
- **2019-05-26** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-27** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-27** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-28** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-10** Effective immediately

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/096ea6a7-d775-45bb-99d3-02d6c2d81c46`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).