---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to establishing a protective order registry and the duties of court personnel and other persons and entities in regard to the registry."
description: "Relating to establishing a protective order registry and the duties of court personnel and other persons and entities in regard to the registry."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "SB 325"
citation: "Texas SB 325 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts--Administration (I0130)", "Courts--General (I0160)", "Crimes--Against Persons--General (I0170)", "Criminal Procedure--General (I0208)", "Electronic Information Systems (I0311)", "PROTECTIVE ORDERS (S0495)", "COURT ADMINISTRATION", "OFFICE OF (V8690)", "SUPREME COURT (V0311)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Huffman", "Landgraf"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 46
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-01-10"
last_action: "2019-05-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c44e889-799d-4260-9c14-3db28bf0ae56"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00300_SB00399/SB 325.xml"
source_hash: "287c165c8dfac0093ee12bf87b461df16710f2638f21b8c37ffbe70a58f48099"
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 325 (86) — Relating to establishing a protective order registry and the duties of court personnel and other persons and entities in regard to the registry.

## 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/SB00325I.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **137–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Huffman — primary (person)
- Landgraf — primary (person)
- Creighton — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-10** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
- **2019-01-10** Filed `filing`
- **2019-02-07** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-07** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-04** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-03-04** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-03-04** Testimony taken in committee
- **2019-03-04** Left pending in committee
- **2019-03-18** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-03-18** Left pending in committee
- **2019-04-01** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-04** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Committee report printed and distributed
- **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 Homeland Security & Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-17** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-17** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-24** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-04-24** Committee report distributed
- **2019-04-25** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2019-04-26** Laid out in lieu of companion
- **2019-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-26** Passed to 3rd reading
- **2019-04-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-29** Passed `passage`
- **2019-04-29** Record vote
- **2019-04-29** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-04-30** House passage reported
- **2019-04-30** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-01** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-01** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-01** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-07** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-07** 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/6c44e889-799d-4260-9c14-3db28bf0ae56`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).