---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to liability of volunteer health care providers and health care institutions for care, assistance, or advice provided in relation to a disaster."
description: "Relating to liability of volunteer health care providers and health care institutions for care, assistance, or advice provided in relation to a disaster."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "SB 752"
citation: "Texas SB 752 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Civil Remedies & Liabilities (I0065)", "Disaster Preparedness & Relief (I0211)", "Health Care Providers (I0387)", "VOLUNTEERS (S1314)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Huffman", "Oliverson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 45
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-02-11"
last_action: "2019-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e7bc7d4-ea6d-4d2a-b4d5-04acb0a387fa"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00700_SB00799/SB 752.xml"
source_hash: "f5e22739f940c2ea154cff436dd7f9338f80fd03bd2dd6042112a352f5764b83"
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 752 (86) — Relating to liability of volunteer health care providers and health care institutions for care, assistance, or advice provided in relation to a disaster.

## 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/SB00752I.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **146–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Huffman — primary (person)
- Oliverson — primary (person)
- Lucio — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-11** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
- **2019-02-11** Filed `filing`
- **2019-03-01** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-01** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
- **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
- **2019-03-13** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-13** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-03-13** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-03-18** Placed on intent calendar
- **2019-03-19** Co-author authorized
- **2019-03-19** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- **2019-03-19** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
- **2019-03-19** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-03-19** Three day rule suspended
- **2019-03-19** Record vote
- **2019-03-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-19** Passed `passage`
- **2019-03-19** Record vote
- **2019-03-19** Reported engrossed
- **2019-03-20** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2019-03-28** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-28** Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-23** Withdrawn from schedule
- **2019-04-25** Considered in formal meeting
- **2019-04-25** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
- **2019-05-01** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-05-01** Committee report distributed
- **2019-05-01** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2019-05-06** Laid out in lieu of companion
- **2019-05-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-06** Passed to 3rd reading
- **2019-05-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-07** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-07** Record vote
- **2019-05-07** House passage reported
- **2019-05-07** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-08** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-08** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-08** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-20** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-20** 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/2e7bc7d4-ea6d-4d2a-b4d5-04acb0a387fa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).