---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to standards for nutrition, physical activity, and screen time for certain child-care facilities and homes."
description: "Relating to standards for nutrition, physical activity, and screen time for certain child-care facilities and homes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "SB 952"
citation: "Texas SB 952 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Day Care (I0209)", "Human Services--Child Services (I0895)", "Human Services--Food Programs (I0910)", "Minors--Health & Safety (I0533)", "NUTRITION (S0623)", "HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION (V0177)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lucio III", "Miller", "Watson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 56
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-02-21"
last_action: "2019-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d2b90afb-b201-4d53-a2bb-66d086ffe8d4"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00900_SB00999/SB 952.xml"
source_hash: "fb7a63f3f53400e8273672951f6951f6fe731be28fd08959ce6bd66daa5c56bf"
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 952 (86) — Relating to standards for nutrition, physical activity, and screen time for certain child-care facilities and homes.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/86R/billtext/html/SB00952I.HTM)

## Sponsors

- Lucio III — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Watson — primary (person)
- Lucio — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-21** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
- **2019-02-21** Filed `filing`
- **2019-03-01** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-01** Referred to Health & Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-03-12** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-03-12** Testimony taken in committee
- **2019-03-12** Left pending in committee
- **2019-03-27** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-01** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-04-01** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-04-10** Placed on intent calendar
- **2019-04-11** Co-author authorized
- **2019-04-11** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- **2019-04-11** Record vote
- **2019-04-11** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
- **2019-04-11** Record vote
- **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 Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-09** Considered in formal meeting
- **2019-05-09** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2019-05-09** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-13** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-05-13** Committee report distributed
- **2019-05-14** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2019-05-15** Considered in Calendars
- **2019-05-17** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2019-05-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-17** Passed to 3rd reading
- **2019-05-17** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-17** Constitutional three day rule suspended
- **2019-05-17** Record vote
- **2019-05-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-17** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-17** Record vote
- **2019-05-17** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-19** House passage as amended reported
- **2019-05-23** House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
- **2019-05-23** Read
- **2019-05-23** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
- **2019-05-23** Record vote
- **2019-05-23** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported
- **2019-05-23** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-25** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-25** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-25** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-14** Filed without the Governor's signature
- **2019-06-14** 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/d2b90afb-b201-4d53-a2bb-66d086ffe8d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).