---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to political contributions and political expenditures made to or by political committees or other persons."
description: "Relating to political contributions and political expenditures made to or by political committees or other persons."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "HB 2586"
citation: "Texas HB 2586 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections--Campaign Financing (I0290)", "Elections--Candidates (I0280)", "POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS (S0114)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burrows", "Hughes", "Israel", "Klick", "Leach", "Moody"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 63
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-02-27"
last_action: "2019-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7eef00d1-51a4-4cbd-945b-ad34682cb937"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB02500_HB02599/HB 2586.xml"
source_hash: "f4804cf3a0636ebfeaa1fa40620f53b2eef2da66a2465af744de09b477bdca60"
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 HB 2586 (86) — Relating to political contributions and political expenditures made to or by political committees or other persons.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/86R/billtext/html/HB02586I.HTM)

## Votes

- other — **139–2** (fail) · upper
- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- passage — **143–4** (pass) · lower
- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- passage — **139–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Burrows — primary (person)
- Hughes — primary (person)
- Israel — primary (person)
- Klick — primary (person)
- Leach — primary (person)
- Moody — primary (person)
- Guillen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-27** Filed `filing`
- **2019-03-11** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-11** Referred to Elections `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-01** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2019-04-01** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2019-04-01** Left pending in committee
- **2019-04-15** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-15** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2019-04-15** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-24** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-04-24** Committee report distributed
- **2019-04-25** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2019-04-30** Considered in Calendars
- **2019-05-02** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2019-05-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-06** Passed to engrossment
- **2019-05-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-07** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-07** Record vote
- **2019-05-07** Reported engrossed
- **2019-05-07** Received from the House `introduction`
- **2019-05-08** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-05-08** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-10** Rereferred to committee
- **2019-05-10** Referred to Administration `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-13** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-05-13** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-05-13** Testimony taken in committee
- **2019-05-13** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-13** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-05-13** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-05-15** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-05-15** Placed on intent calendar
- **2019-05-15** Removed from local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-05-20** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-05-19** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- **2019-05-19** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-19** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2019-05-19** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-05-19** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-19** Passed to 3rd reading as amended
- **2019-05-19** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-19** Three day rule suspended
- **2019-05-19** Record vote
- **2019-05-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-19** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-19** Record vote
- **2019-05-20** Senate passage as amended reported
- **2019-05-20** Senate Amendments distributed
- **2019-05-20** Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
- **2019-05-23** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
- **2019-05-23** Record vote
- **2019-05-23** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-23** Text of Senate Amendment(s)
- **2019-05-23** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported
- **2019-05-25** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-26** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-27** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-29** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-14** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-14** Effective on 9/1/19 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7eef00d1-51a4-4cbd-945b-ad34682cb937`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).