---
type: "Bill"
title: "Expressing commitment to eliminating racially offensive place names and urging the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to approve requests to change racially offensive names of geographic features."
description: "Expressing commitment to eliminating racially offensive place names and urging the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to approve requests to change racially offensive names of geographic features."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "87"
identifier: "SCR 29"
citation: "Texas SCR 29 (87)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["GEOGRAPHIC NAMES", "US BOARD ON (VI46T)", "Human Relations (I0410)", "Resolutions--Legislative Policy (I0685)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Miles", "Murr", "Reynolds", "Rose", "White"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 40
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-03-11"
last_action: "2021-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7139ced2-cf85-490c-b8d0-0a44bd2c8295"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/87R/billhistory/senate_concurrent_resolutions/SCR00001_SCR00099/SCR 29.xml"
source_hash: "b564ce7b7bc6f3ba936a43be4400efa5d1616670f4dedbde403cca03408a8d4c"
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 SCR 29 (87) — Expressing commitment to eliminating racially offensive place names and urging the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to approve requests to change racially offensive names of geographic features.

## 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/SC00029I.HTM)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SC00029E.HTM)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SC00029H.HTM)
4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SC00029S.HTM)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SC00029F.HTM)

## Sponsors

- Miles — primary (person)
- Murr — primary (person)
- Reynolds — primary (person)
- Rose — primary (person)
- White — primary (person)
- Alvarado — cosponsor (person)
- Bettencourt — cosponsor (person)
- Birdwell — cosponsor (person)
- Blanco — cosponsor (person)
- Buckingham — cosponsor (person)
- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- Creighton — cosponsor (person)
- Eckhardt — cosponsor (person)
- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Hancock — cosponsor (person)
- Hinojosa — cosponsor (person)
- Huffman — cosponsor (person)
- Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kolkhorst — cosponsor (person)
- Lucio — cosponsor (person)
- Menéndez — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Nichols — cosponsor (person)
- Paxton — cosponsor (person)
- Perry — cosponsor (person)
- Powell — cosponsor (person)
- Schwertner — cosponsor (person)
- Seliger — cosponsor (person)
- Springer — cosponsor (person)
- Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Whitmire — cosponsor (person)
- Zaffirini — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-11** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
- **2021-03-11** Filed `filing`
- **2021-04-01** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-04-01** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-19** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2021-04-19** Considered in public hearing
- **2021-04-19** Testimony taken in committee
- **2021-04-20** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-20** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2021-04-20** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2021-04-21** Co-author authorized
- **2021-04-26** Placed on intent calendar
- **2021-04-27** Not again placed on intent calendar
- **2021-04-28** Placed on intent calendar
- **2021-04-28** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- **2021-04-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-28** Adopted `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Record vote
- **2021-04-28** Remarks ordered printed
- **2021-04-29** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2021-05-03** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-10** Considered in public hearing
- **2021-05-10** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2021-05-10** Left pending in committee
- **2021-05-14** Considered in formal meeting
- **2021-05-14** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
- **2021-05-17** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2021-05-17** Committee report distributed
- **2021-05-18** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2021-05-20** Considered in Calendars
- **2021-05-23** Placed on Resolutions Calendar
- **2021-05-24** Laid before the House
- **2021-05-24** Adopted `passage`
- **2021-05-24** Record vote
- **2021-05-25** House passage reported
- **2021-05-25** Reported enrolled
- **2021-05-27** Signed in the Senate
- **2021-05-27** Signed in the House
- **2021-05-27** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-16** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7139ced2-cf85-490c-b8d0-0a44bd2c8295`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).