---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to a disclosure regarding flood coverage under a commercial or residential property insurance policy."
description: "Relating to a disclosure regarding flood coverage under a commercial or residential property insurance policy."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "SB 442"
citation: "Texas SB 442 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance--Insurers & Agents (I0425)", "Insurance--Property & Casualty (I0442)", "FLOODS (S0327)", "INSURANCE", "COMMISSIONER OF (V0396)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hancock", "Lucio III", "Oliverson", "Perez"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 47
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-01-24"
last_action: "2019-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6297cfbf-9d16-4655-bd33-1329808c6a17"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00400_SB00499/SB 442.xml"
source_hash: "6cbecf8a53e5529a6fe28f57c169b996bd62f87e6ef196db9f1a25f06d8bfc0f"
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 442 (86) — Relating to a disclosure regarding flood coverage under a commercial or residential property insurance policy.

## 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/SB00442I.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **140–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hancock — primary (person)
- Lucio III — primary (person)
- Oliverson — primary (person)
- Perez — primary (person)
- Buckingham — cosponsor (person)
- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- Watson — cosponsor (person)
- Zaffirini — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-24** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
- **2019-01-24** Filed `filing`
- **2019-02-14** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-14** Referred to Business & Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-02** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-04-02** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-04-02** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-02** Testimony taken in committee
- **2019-04-02** Left pending in committee
- **2019-04-04** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-10** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-10** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-04-10** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-04-11** Co-author authorized
- **2019-04-17** Co-author authorized
- **2019-04-17** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-04-17** Laid before the Senate
- **2019-04-17** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
- **2019-04-17** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-04-17** Three day rule suspended
- **2019-04-17** Record vote
- **2019-04-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-17** Passed `passage`
- **2019-04-17** Record vote
- **2019-04-17** Reported engrossed
- **2019-04-18** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2019-04-23** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-04-23** Referred to Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-30** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-30** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
- **2019-05-06** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-05-06** 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 reported
- **2019-05-15** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-16** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-17** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-17** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-31** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-31** 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/6297cfbf-9d16-4655-bd33-1329808c6a17`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).