---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the jurisdiction of municipal courts over health and safety and nuisance abatement ordinances."
description: "Relating to the jurisdiction of municipal courts over health and safety and nuisance abatement ordinances."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "89R"
identifier: "SB 304"
citation: "Texas SB 304 (89R)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["City Government--General (I0060)", "Courts--Municipal (I0100)", "NUISANCES (S0012)", "SEARCH WARRANTS (S8366)", "Safety (I0740)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Darby", "Perry"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 47
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-11-12"
last_action: "2025-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/69972000-7296-4654-92d9-6fd48f1bdbf7"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00300_SB00399/SB 304.xml"
source_hash: "311dcd088ea21d1d2d3c5a3c1077b866c6d50d67adebc3bb7ecca9332a0856c6"
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 304 (89R) — Relating to the jurisdiction of municipal courts over health and safety and nuisance abatement ordinances.

## 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/89R/billtext/html/SB00304I.HTM)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00304E.HTM)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00304H.HTM)
4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00304S.HTM)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00304F.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **115–19** (pass) · lower
- passage — **109–25** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Darby — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-12** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing, introduction`
- **2024-11-12** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-03** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Referred to Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2025-03-10** Considered in public hearing
- **2025-03-10** Left pending in committee
- **2025-03-13** Considered in public hearing
- **2025-03-13** Vote taken in committee
- **2025-03-17** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2025-03-17** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2025-03-20** Co-author authorized
- **2025-04-10** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2025-04-10** Laid before the Senate `receipt`
- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-04-10** Three day rule suspended
- **2025-04-10** Record vote
- **2025-04-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-10** Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-10** Record vote
- **2025-04-10** Reported engrossed
- **2025-04-14** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2025-04-17** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-17** Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-24** Considered in formal meeting
- **2025-04-24** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-25** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
- **2025-04-25** Committee report distributed
- **2025-04-28** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2025-04-30** Laid out in lieu of companion
- **2025-04-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-30** Passed to 3rd reading
- **2025-04-30** Record vote
- **2025-04-30** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-05-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-05-01** Passed `passage`
- **2025-05-01** Record vote
- **2025-05-01** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-05-01** House passage reported `passage`
- **2025-05-01** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-05** Signed in the Senate `passage`
- **2025-05-05** Signed in the House `passage`
- **2025-05-06** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-15** Filed without the Governor's signature `became-law`
- **2025-05-15** Effective on 9/1/25 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/69972000-7296-4654-92d9-6fd48f1bdbf7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).