---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to flood planning, mitigation, and infrastructure projects."
description: "Relating to flood planning, mitigation, and infrastructure projects."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "SB 7"
citation: "Texas SB 7 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Disaster Preparedness & Relief (I0211)", "Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--State (I0362)", "State Finances--Appropriations (I0746)", "State Finances--Management & Control (I0748)", "Utilities--Water & Sewer (I0002)", "Water--Development (I0875)", "Water--General (I0885)", "FLOODS (S0327)", "EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT", "DIVISION OF THE DEPT. OF PUBLIC SAFETY (V0318)", "TEXAS INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCY FUND ADVISORY COMMITTEE (V1266)", "WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD", "TEXAS (V2481)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alvarado", "Bettencourt", "Buckingham", "Creighton", "Flores", "Hinojosa", "Huffman", "Kolkhorst", "Lucio", "Miles", "Nelson", "Nichols", "Perry", "Phelan", "Taylor"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 73
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-03-06"
last_action: "2019-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c9ad2cd-e109-4539-90b3-01b2280af30f"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00001_SB00099/SB 7.xml"
source_hash: "161115e3a0ba597fc110af1c5c8018b5035b7dfeb4b58071c4230a82dcc2304b"
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 7 (86) — Relating to flood planning, mitigation, and infrastructure projects.

## 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/SB00007I.HTM)

## Votes

- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- passage — **143–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alvarado — primary (person)
- Bettencourt — primary (person)
- Buckingham — primary (person)
- Creighton — primary (person)
- Flores — primary (person)
- Hinojosa — primary (person)
- Huffman — primary (person)
- Kolkhorst — primary (person)
- Lucio — primary (person)
- Miles — primary (person)
- Nelson — primary (person)
- Nichols — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Phelan — primary (person)
- Taylor — primary (person)
- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- Fallon — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Powell — cosponsor (person)
- Rodríguez — cosponsor (person)
- Schwertner — cosponsor (person)
- Watson — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Whitmire — cosponsor (person)
- Zaffirini — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-06** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
- **2019-03-06** Filed `filing`
- **2019-03-07** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-07** Referred to Water & Rural Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-11** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-03-11** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-03-11** Testimony taken in committee
- **2019-03-14** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-14** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-03-18** Placed on intent calendar
- **2019-03-19** Co-author authorized
- **2019-03-20** Co-author authorized
- **2019-03-20** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- **2019-03-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-20** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2019-03-20** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-20** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-03-20** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2019-03-20** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-20** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-03-20** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2019-03-20** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-20** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-03-20** Passed to engrossment as amended
- **2019-03-20** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-03-20** Three day rule suspended
- **2019-03-20** Record vote
- **2019-03-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-20** Passed `passage`
- **2019-03-20** Record vote
- **2019-03-20** Reported engrossed
- **2019-03-21** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2019-03-28** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-28** Referred to Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-29** Posting rule suspended
- **2019-04-30** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-30** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2019-04-30** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2019-04-30** Left pending in committee
- **2019-05-06** Considered in formal meeting
- **2019-05-06** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2019-05-06** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-09** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-05-09** Committee report distributed
- **2019-05-10** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2019-05-14** Considered in Calendars
- **2019-05-16** Placed on Major State Calendar
- **2019-05-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-16** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2019-05-16** Amendment amended `amendment-amendment`
- **2019-05-16** Amendment amended `amendment-amendment`
- **2019-05-16** Amendment amended `amendment-amendment`
- **2019-05-16** Amendment adopted as amended
- **2019-05-16** Statement of Leg. Intent Recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-16** Passed to 3rd reading as amended
- **2019-05-16** Constitutional three day rule suspended
- **2019-05-16** Record vote
- **2019-05-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-16** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-16** Record vote
- **2019-05-16** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-16** House passage as amended reported
- **2019-05-22** House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
- **2019-05-22** Read
- **2019-05-22** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
- **2019-05-22** Record vote
- **2019-05-22** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported
- **2019-05-22** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-24** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-25** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-25** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-13** See remarks for effective date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2c9ad2cd-e109-4539-90b3-01b2280af30f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).