---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the amount of the total revenue exemption for the franchise tax and the exclusion of certain taxable entities from the requirement to file a franchise tax report."
description: "Relating to the amount of the total revenue exemption for the franchise tax and the exclusion of certain taxable entities from the requirement to file a franchise tax report."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "882"
identifier: "SB 3"
citation: "Texas SB 3 (882)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS (V2608)", "Taxation--Franchise (I0807)", "Taxation--General (I0815)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bettencourt", "Darby", "Geren", "Hefner", "Meyer", "Raymond"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 47
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-07-10"
last_action: "2023-07-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/368ce59c-6798-4b45-a08a-746eea1473cd"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/882/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00001_SB00099/SB 3.xml"
source_hash: "5f4574455ed2783e1cb098958459af1be3fbb78a16ac03be37ceec8845b1c8b1"
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 3 (882) — Relating to the amount of the total revenue exemption for the franchise tax and the exclusion of certain taxable entities from the requirement to file a franchise tax report.

## 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/882/billtext/html/SB00003I.HTM)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/882/billtext/html/SB00003E.HTM)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/882/billtext/html/SB00003H.HTM)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/882/billtext/html/SB00003F.HTM)

## Sponsors

- Bettencourt — primary (person)
- Darby — primary (person)
- Geren — primary (person)
- Hefner — primary (person)
- Meyer — primary (person)
- Raymond — primary (person)
- Allison — cosponsor (person)
- Alvarado — cosponsor (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Ashby — cosponsor (person)
- Bell, Cecil — cosponsor (person)
- Bell, Keith — cosponsor (person)
- Birdwell — cosponsor (person)
- Blanco — cosponsor (person)
- Bumgarner — cosponsor (person)
- Burns — cosponsor (person)
- Button — cosponsor (person)
- Cain — cosponsor (person)
- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- Capriglione — cosponsor (person)
- Clardy — cosponsor (person)
- Cook — cosponsor (person)
- Creighton — cosponsor (person)
- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
- DeAyala — cosponsor (person)
- Dean — cosponsor (person)
- Dorazio — cosponsor (person)
- Eckhardt — cosponsor (person)
- Flores — cosponsor (person)
- Frazier — cosponsor (person)
- Gerdes — cosponsor (person)
- Goldman — cosponsor (person)
- Guillen — cosponsor (person)
- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Hancock — cosponsor (person)
- Harless — cosponsor (person)
- Harris, Caroline — cosponsor (person)
- Harris, Cody — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Herrero — cosponsor (person)
- Hinojosa — cosponsor (person)
- Holland — cosponsor (person)
- Huffman — cosponsor (person)
- Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Hull — cosponsor (person)
- Isaac — cosponsor (person)
- King — cosponsor (person)
- King, Tracy O. — cosponsor (person)
- Kitzman — cosponsor (person)
- Kolkhorst — cosponsor (person)
- Kuempel — cosponsor (person)
- LaMantia — cosponsor (person)
- Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Landgraf — cosponsor (person)
- Leo-Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Lopez, Janie — cosponsor (person)
- Lozano — cosponsor (person)
- Lujan — cosponsor (person)
- Menéndez — cosponsor (person)
- Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Miles — cosponsor (person)
- Morales, Eddie — cosponsor (person)
- Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- Nichols — cosponsor (person)
- Noble — cosponsor (person)
- Oliverson — cosponsor (person)
- Orr — cosponsor (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Paul — cosponsor (person)
- Paxton — cosponsor (person)
- Perry — cosponsor (person)
- Price — cosponsor (person)
- Raney — cosponsor (person)
- Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- Schatzline — cosponsor (person)
- Schwertner — cosponsor (person)
- Shaheen — cosponsor (person)
- Shine — cosponsor (person)
- Slawson — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Sparks — cosponsor (person)
- Spiller — cosponsor (person)
- Springer — cosponsor (person)
- Stucky — cosponsor (person)
- Tepper — cosponsor (person)
- Thimesch — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson, Ed — cosponsor (person)
- Toth — cosponsor (person)
- Troxclair — cosponsor (person)
- VanDeaver — cosponsor (person)
- Vasut — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Whitmire — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Zaffirini — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-07-10** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing, introduction`
- **2023-07-10** Filed `filing`
- **2023-07-10** Co-author authorized
- **2023-07-11** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-07-11** Referred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-07-12** Co-author authorized
- **2023-07-12** Posting rule suspended
- **2023-07-12** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2023-07-12** Considered in public hearing
- **2023-07-12** Vote taken in committee
- **2023-07-12** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-07-12** Printing rule suspended
- **2023-07-12** Ordered not printed
- **2023-07-12** Rules suspended
- **2023-07-12** Record vote
- **2023-07-12** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment `reading-2`
- **2023-07-12** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2023-07-12** Three day rule suspended
- **2023-07-12** Record vote
- **2023-07-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-07-12** Passed `passage`
- **2023-07-12** Record vote
- **2023-07-12** Reported engrossed
- **2023-07-12** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2023-07-12** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-07-12** Referred to Ways & Means `referral-committee`
- **2023-07-12** Considered in formal meeting
- **2023-07-12** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-07-12** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
- **2023-07-12** Committee report distributed
- **2023-07-13** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2023-07-13** Laid out in lieu of companion
- **2023-07-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-07-13** Passed to 3rd reading
- **2023-07-13** Record vote
- **2023-07-13** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2023-07-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-07-13** Passed `passage`
- **2023-07-13** Record vote
- **2023-07-13** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2023-07-13** House passage reported `passage`
- **2023-07-13** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-07-13** Signed in the Senate `passage`
- **2023-07-13** Signed in the House `passage`
- **2023-07-21** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-07-22** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-07-22** Effective on 1/1/24 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/368ce59c-6798-4b45-a08a-746eea1473cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).