---
type: "Bill"
title: "Urging the federal government to take immediate action to curb the spread of the New World screwworm in Texas."
description: "Urging the federal government to take immediate action to curb the spread of the New World screwworm in Texas."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "892"
identifier: "HCR 13"
citation: "Texas HCR 13 (892)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Agriculture (I0020)", "NEW WORLD SCREWWORM (NF6WC)", "Resolutions--Legislative Policy (I0685)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cook", "Guillen", "Holt", "Kitzman", "McLaughlin", "Perry"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-08-22"
last_action: "2025-09-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a64978c-af8a-4451-9ce3-f3a6a1444255"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/892/billhistory/house_concurrent_resolutions/HCR00001_HCR00099/HCR 13.xml"
source_hash: "2f7ab1473c606f51ca7436c53dc2751d6754132c4b1bee7c366e79763ca7608d"
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 HCR 13 (892) — Urging the federal government to take immediate action to curb the spread of the New World screwworm in Texas.

## 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/892/billtext/html/HC00013I.HTM)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/892/billtext/html/HC00013E.HTM)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/892/billtext/html/HC00013H.HTM)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/892/billtext/html/HC00013F.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **27–0** (pass) · upper
- passage — **131–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cook — primary (person)
- Guillen — primary (person)
- Holt — primary (person)
- Kitzman — primary (person)
- McLaughlin — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Alders — cosponsor (person)
- Ashby — cosponsor (person)
- Barry — cosponsor (person)
- Bell, Cecil — cosponsor (person)
- Bell, Keith — cosponsor (person)
- Blanco — cosponsor (person)
- Bonnen — cosponsor (person)
- Buckley — cosponsor (person)
- Bumgarner — cosponsor (person)
- Button — cosponsor (person)
- Cain — cosponsor (person)
- Capriglione — cosponsor (person)
- Craddick — cosponsor (person)
- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
- Curry — cosponsor (person)
- DeAyala — cosponsor (person)
- Dean — cosponsor (person)
- Dorazio — cosponsor (person)
- Dutton — cosponsor (person)
- Dyson — cosponsor (person)
- Fairly — cosponsor (person)
- Frank — cosponsor (person)
- Garcia Hernandez, Cassandra — cosponsor (person)
- Gates — cosponsor (person)
- Gerdes — cosponsor (person)
- Geren — cosponsor (person)
- Hagenbuch — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Harris Davila — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hefner — cosponsor (person)
- Hickland — cosponsor (person)
- Hinojosa, Adam — cosponsor (person)
- Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy" — cosponsor (person)
- Hopper — cosponsor (person)
- Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Hull — cosponsor (person)
- Hunter — cosponsor (person)
- Isaac — cosponsor (person)
- King — cosponsor (person)
- Kolkhorst — cosponsor (person)
- LaHood — cosponsor (person)
- Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Landgraf — cosponsor (person)
- Leo Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Little — cosponsor (person)
- Lopez, Janie — cosponsor (person)
- Lopez, Ray — cosponsor (person)
- Louderback — cosponsor (person)
- Lowe — cosponsor (person)
- Lozano — cosponsor (person)
- Manuel — cosponsor (person)
- Martinez — cosponsor (person)
- McQueeney — cosponsor (person)
- Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Money — cosponsor (person)
- Moody — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Olcott — cosponsor (person)
- Oliverson — cosponsor (person)
- Orr — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Paul — cosponsor (person)
- Perez, Mary Ann — cosponsor (person)
- Pierson — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond — cosponsor (person)
- Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Romero — cosponsor (person)
- Schoolcraft — cosponsor (person)
- Shaheen — cosponsor (person)
- Shofner — cosponsor (person)
- Slawson — cosponsor (person)
- Smithee — cosponsor (person)
- Sparks — cosponsor (person)
- Spiller — cosponsor (person)
- Swanson — cosponsor (person)
- Tepper — cosponsor (person)
- Tinderholt — cosponsor (person)
- Toth — cosponsor (person)
- Troxclair — cosponsor (person)
- Vasut — cosponsor (person)
- Villalobos — cosponsor (person)
- Virdell — cosponsor (person)
- Wharton — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-08-22** Filed `filing`
- **2025-08-25** Referred to Agriculture & Livestock `referral-committee`
- **2025-08-25** Considered in formal meeting
- **2025-08-25** Committee substitute considered in committee `substitution`
- **2025-08-25** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-08-26** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
- **2025-08-26** Committee report distributed
- **2025-08-27** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2025-08-27** Considered in Calendars
- **2025-08-28** Placed on Resolutions Calendar
- **2025-08-28** Laid before the House `receipt`
- **2025-08-28** Adopted `passage`
- **2025-08-28** Record vote
- **2025-08-28** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-08-29** Reported engrossed
- **2025-09-02** Co-sponsor authorized
- **2025-09-02** Received from the House `introduction`
- **2025-09-02** Rules suspended
- **2025-09-02** Laid before the Senate `receipt`
- **2025-09-02** Read
- **2025-09-02** Adopted `passage`
- **2025-09-02** Record vote
- **2025-09-02** Senate passage reported `passage`
- **2025-09-03** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-09-03** Signed in the House `passage`
- **2025-09-03** Signed in the Senate `passage`
- **2025-09-04** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-09-17** 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/4a64978c-af8a-4451-9ce3-f3a6a1444255`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).