---
type: "Bill"
title: "Designating Bandera as the official Cowboy Capital of Texas for a 10-year period ending in 2035."
description: "Designating Bandera as the official Cowboy Capital of Texas for a 10-year period ending in 2035."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "89R"
identifier: "SCR 3"
citation: "Texas SCR 3 (89R)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["BANDERA", "CITY OF (GK1QI)", "COWBOY CAPITAL OF TEXAS (NE8AA)", "Resolutions--Official Designations--Capitals (I0716)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Flores", "Virdell"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 35
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-11-19"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da564c70-ec2c-47bb-8f0d-ca9e930d39fc"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_concurrent_resolutions/SCR00001_SCR00099/SCR 3.xml"
source_hash: "0e2b0e0fd419e678f064bef2b492788eee1b52f98acf0598bd8b2dfa6b6e8915"
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 3 (89R) — Designating Bandera as the official Cowboy Capital of Texas for a 10-year period ending in 2035.

## 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/SC00003I.HTM)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SC00003E.HTM)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SC00003H.HTM)
4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SC00003S.HTM)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SC00003F.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **102–19** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Flores — primary (person)
- Virdell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-19** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing, introduction`
- **2024-11-19** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-03** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Referred to Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-28** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2025-04-28** Considered in public hearing
- **2025-04-28** Vote taken in committee
- **2025-04-28** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-28** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2025-04-28** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2025-05-01** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2025-05-01** Laid before the Senate `receipt`
- **2025-05-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-05-01** Adopted `passage`
- **2025-05-01** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-05-01** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2025-05-02** Referred to Culture, Recreation & Tourism `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-19** Considered in formal meeting
- **2025-05-19** Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-19** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-19** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
- **2025-05-19** Committee report distributed
- **2025-05-21** Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
- **2025-05-27** Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
- **2025-05-28** Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
- **2025-05-28** Laid before the House `receipt`
- **2025-05-28** Adopted `passage`
- **2025-05-28** Record vote
- **2025-05-28** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-05-28** House passage reported `passage`
- **2025-05-28** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-30** Signed in the Senate `passage`
- **2025-06-01** Signed in the House `passage`
- **2025-06-01** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-20** 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/da564c70-ec2c-47bb-8f0d-ca9e930d39fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).