---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to court-ordered mental health services."
description: "Relating to court-ordered mental health services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "SB 362"
citation: "Texas SB 362 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts--General (I0160)", "Criminal Procedure--Bail & Pretrial Release (I0202)", "Criminal Procedure--General (I0208)", "Mental Health & Substance Abuse (I0019)", "CRIMINAL APPEALS", "COURT OF (V1605)", "HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION (V0177)", "JUVENILE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT", "TEXAS (V0846)", "SUPREME COURT (V0311)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Huffman", "Price"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 54
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-01-16"
last_action: "2019-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/71757691-c2aa-4bfd-9c98-70d5c26feb1e"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00300_SB00399/SB 362.xml"
source_hash: "8f3a9cf3f928f2057548b03e214e6fbd597190320ae693fde631260dd1eb6b8f"
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 362 (86) — Relating to court-ordered mental health services.

## 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/SB00362I.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **141–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Huffman — primary (person)
- Price — primary (person)
- Hinojosa — cosponsor (person)
- Zaffirini — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-16** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
- **2019-01-16** Filed `filing`
- **2019-02-07** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-07** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-26** Co-author authorized
- **2019-04-01** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-04-01** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-01** Testimony taken in committee
- **2019-04-08** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-08** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-04-10** Placed on intent calendar
- **2019-04-09** Corrected comm. report printed & distributed
- **2019-04-11** Co-author authorized
- **2019-04-11** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- **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
- **2019-04-12** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2019-04-15** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-04-15** Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-23** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-23** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2019-04-23** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2019-04-23** Left pending in committee
- **2019-04-29** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-29** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2019-04-29** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-03** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-05-04** Committee report distributed
- **2019-05-06** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2019-05-10** Considered in Calendars
- **2019-05-14** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2019-05-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-14** Passed to 3rd reading
- **2019-05-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-15** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-15** Record vote
- **2019-05-15** House passage as amended reported
- **2019-05-21** House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
- **2019-05-21** Read
- **2019-05-21** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
- **2019-05-21** Record vote
- **2019-05-21** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-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/71757691-c2aa-4bfd-9c98-70d5c26feb1e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).