---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to a sales and use tax exemption for animals adopted from or sold by nonprofit animal welfare organizations."
description: "Relating to a sales and use tax exemption for animals adopted from or sold by nonprofit animal welfare organizations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "87"
identifier: "SB 197"
citation: "Texas SB 197 (87)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Animals (I0035)", "Charitable & Nonprofit Organizations (I0055)", "Taxation--Sales (I0800)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Buckley", "Meyer", "Nelson", "Noble", "Rodriguez", "Turner, Chris"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 46
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-11-16"
last_action: "2021-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f212d4c4-0a11-45e4-a15d-417e3f4cad25"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/87R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00100_SB00199/SB 197.xml"
source_hash: "5f8003eee9d0053e0aa2bd4a39dfd10ead46198c218ce1ca6fa52ef22638ef1d"
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 197 (87) — Relating to a sales and use tax exemption for animals adopted from or sold by nonprofit animal welfare organizations.

## 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/SB00197I.HTM)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB00197E.HTM)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB00197H.HTM)
4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB00197S.HTM)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB00197F.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **143–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Buckley — primary (person)
- Meyer — primary (person)
- Nelson — primary (person)
- Noble — primary (person)
- Rodriguez — primary (person)
- Turner, Chris — primary (person)
- Button — cosponsor (person)
- Canales — cosponsor (person)
- Cook — cosponsor (person)
- Creighton — cosponsor (person)
- Fierro — cosponsor (person)
- Goldman — cosponsor (person)
- Harless — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Jetton — cosponsor (person)
- King, Phil — cosponsor (person)
- Kolkhorst — cosponsor (person)
- Krause — cosponsor (person)
- Meza — cosponsor (person)
- Minjarez — cosponsor (person)
- Morales Shaw — cosponsor (person)
- Neave — cosponsor (person)
- Ortega — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Paxton — cosponsor (person)
- Perez — cosponsor (person)
- Price — cosponsor (person)
- Shaheen — cosponsor (person)
- Sherman, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
- Slaton — cosponsor (person)
- Slawson — cosponsor (person)
- Spiller — cosponsor (person)
- Swanson — cosponsor (person)
- Toth — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-11-16** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
- **2020-11-16** Filed `filing`
- **2021-03-02** Co-author authorized
- **2021-03-03** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-03-03** Referred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2021-03-29** Meeting cancelled
- **2021-03-30** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2021-03-30** Considered in public hearing
- **2021-03-30** Testimony taken in committee
- **2021-03-30** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-30** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2021-03-30** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2021-04-08** Co-author authorized
- **2021-04-09** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2021-04-09** Laid before the Senate
- **2021-04-09** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
- **2021-04-09** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2021-04-09** Three day rule suspended
- **2021-04-09** Record vote
- **2021-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-09** Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-09** Record vote
- **2021-04-09** Reported engrossed
- **2021-04-12** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2021-04-14** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-04-14** Referred to Ways & Means `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-05** Considered in formal meeting
- **2021-05-05** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
- **2021-05-11** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2021-05-11** Committee report distributed
- **2021-05-11** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2021-05-14** Considered in Calendars
- **2021-05-18** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2021-05-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-05-18** Passed to 3rd reading
- **2021-05-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-05-19** Passed `passage`
- **2021-05-19** Record vote
- **2021-05-19** House passage reported
- **2021-05-19** Reported enrolled
- **2021-05-20** Signed in the Senate
- **2021-05-20** Signed in the House
- **2021-05-20** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-04** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-04** Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f212d4c4-0a11-45e4-a15d-417e3f4cad25`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).