---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to establishing a guardianship abuse, fraud, and exploitation deterrence program."
description: "Relating to establishing a guardianship abuse, fraud, and exploitation deterrence program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "SB 31"
citation: "Texas SB 31 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts--General (I0160)", "Probate--Guardians & Related Trusts (I0589)", "FRAUD (S0166)", "GUARDIANS & WARDS (S0301)", "COURT ADMINISTRATION", "OFFICE OF (V8690)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Birdwell", "Creighton", "Guillen", "Huffman", "Hughes", "Lucio", "Nelson", "Perry", "Smithee", "Zaffirini"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 49
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-11-12"
last_action: "2019-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4015d5f0-9c9e-4c05-a7dc-77264dd582d2"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00001_SB00099/SB 31.xml"
source_hash: "ad556e4e5f94c098bcc6a817ce05621b1190196810e94947c3d59b21629153a4"
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 31 (86) — Relating to establishing a guardianship abuse, fraud, and exploitation deterrence program.

## 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/SB00031I.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **140–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Birdwell — primary (person)
- Creighton — primary (person)
- Guillen — primary (person)
- Huffman — primary (person)
- Hughes — primary (person)
- Lucio — primary (person)
- Nelson — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Smithee — primary (person)
- Zaffirini — primary (person)
- Fallon — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Hinojosa — cosponsor (person)
- Kolkhorst — cosponsor (person)
- Miles — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-11-12** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
- **2018-11-12** Filed `filing`
- **2019-02-01** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-01** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-12** Co-author authorized
- **2019-02-26** Co-author authorized
- **2019-03-07** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-03-07** Meeting cancelled
- **2019-03-11** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-03-11** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-03-11** Testimony taken in committee
- **2019-03-11** Left pending in committee
- **2019-04-01** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-03** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-04-04** Co-author authorized
- **2019-04-08** Placed on intent calendar
- **2019-04-09** Co-author authorized
- **2019-04-09** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- **2019-04-09** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
- **2019-04-09** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-04-09** Three day rule suspended
- **2019-04-09** Record vote
- **2019-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-09** Passed `passage`
- **2019-04-09** Record vote
- **2019-04-09** Reported engrossed
- **2019-04-10** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2019-04-11** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-04-11** Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-18** Considered in formal meeting
- **2019-04-18** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
- **2019-05-02** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-05-02** Committee report distributed
- **2019-05-02** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2019-05-14** Considered in Calendars
- **2019-05-16** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2019-05-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-16** Passed to 3rd reading
- **2019-05-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-17** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-17** Record vote
- **2019-05-17** House passage reported
- **2019-05-17** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-20** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-21** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-21** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-14** Filed without the Governor's signature
- **2019-06-14** 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/4015d5f0-9c9e-4c05-a7dc-77264dd582d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).