---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to participation in, contributions to, and the benefits and administration of retirement systems for police officers in certain municipalities."
description: "Relating to participation in, contributions to, and the benefits and administration of retirement systems for police officers in certain municipalities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "87"
identifier: "HB 4368"
citation: "Texas HB 4368 (87)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["City Government--Employees/Officers (I0061)", "City Government--Finance (I0062)", "Fire Fighters & Police--General (I0370)", "Law Enforcement (I0510)", "Retirement Systems--Municipal (I0729)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Buckingham", "Hinojosa", "Howard", "Israel", "Rodriguez"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 58
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-12"
last_action: "2021-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bff1a622-ba14-490b-aa05-da6e5390db26"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/87R/billhistory/house_bills/HB04300_HB04399/HB 4368.xml"
source_hash: "20c98738397f3932ff66d1929a4e81b652bb1543bc4b024e8ff604cb3d0f6b36"
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 HB 4368 (87) — Relating to participation in, contributions to, and the benefits and administration of retirement systems for police officers in certain municipalities.

## 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/87R/billtext/html/HB04368I.HTM)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/HB04368E.HTM)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/HB04368H.HTM)
4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/HB04368S.HTM)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/HB04368F.HTM)

## Votes

- other — **126–21** (fail) · upper
- passage — **126–21** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Buckingham — primary (person)
- Hinojosa — primary (person)
- Howard — primary (person)
- Israel — primary (person)
- Rodriguez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-12** Filed `filing`
- **2021-03-29** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-03-29** Referred to Pensions, Investments & Financial Services `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-16** Considered in public hearing
- **2021-04-16** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2021-04-16** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2021-04-16** Left pending in committee
- **2021-05-07** Considered in formal meeting
- **2021-05-07** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2021-05-07** Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-07** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-10** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2021-05-11** Committee report distributed
- **2021-05-11** Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
- **2021-05-12** Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
- **2021-05-12** Rules suspended
- **2021-05-14** Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
- **2021-05-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-05-14** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2021-05-14** Passed to engrossment as amended
- **2021-05-14** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
- **2021-05-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-05-14** Passed `passage`
- **2021-05-14** Record vote
- **2021-05-14** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
- **2021-05-16** Reported engrossed
- **2021-05-17** Received from the House `introduction`
- **2021-05-17** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-05-17** Referred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-20** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2021-05-20** Considered in public hearing
- **2021-05-20** Testimony taken in committee
- **2021-05-22** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-22** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2021-05-22** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2021-05-25** Placed on intent calendar
- **2021-05-26** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- **2021-05-26** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
- **2021-05-26** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2021-05-26** Three day rule suspended
- **2021-05-26** Record vote
- **2021-05-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-05-26** Passed `passage`
- **2021-05-26** Record vote
- **2021-05-27** Senate passage as amended reported
- **2021-05-27** Senate Amendments distributed
- **2021-05-27** Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
- **2021-05-28** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
- **2021-05-28** Record vote
- **2021-05-28** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2021-05-28** Text of Senate Amendment(s)
- **2021-05-28** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported
- **2021-05-30** Reported enrolled
- **2021-05-31** Signed in the House
- **2021-05-31** Signed in the Senate
- **2021-06-01** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-15** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-15** Effective on 9/1/21 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bff1a622-ba14-490b-aa05-da6e5390db26`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).