---
type: "Bill"
title: "Designating September 29 as Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Day for a 10-year period ending in 2035."
description: "Designating September 29 as Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Day for a 10-year period ending in 2035."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "89R"
identifier: "HCR 7"
citation: "Texas HCR 7 (89R)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Resolutions--Official Designations--10-Year Significant Dates (I0016)", "VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DAY (HM0ZU)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hall", "Tepper"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 39
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-11-12"
last_action: "2025-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/df26c8e2-afca-4fb5-bd4d-a35970db8f8a"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/house_concurrent_resolutions/HCR00001_HCR00099/HCR 7.xml"
source_hash: "96911ff2197e5f0abe9da0a6dc1efa98c368e3ef066401c3f64cc01623dbb30c"
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 7 (89R) — Designating September 29 as Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Day 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/HC00007I.HTM)
2. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HC00007H.HTM)
3. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HC00007S.HTM)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HC00007F.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **140–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hall — primary (person)
- Tepper — primary (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-12** Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-05** Referred to s/c on Defense & Veterans' Affairs by Speaker `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07** Scheduled for public hearing in s/c on . . .
- **2025-04-07** Considered by s/c in public hearing
- **2025-04-07** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in subcommittee
- **2025-04-07** Left pending in subcommittee
- **2025-04-24** Recalled from subcommittee
- **2025-04-24** Considered in formal meeting
- **2025-04-24** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-01** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
- **2025-05-01** Committee report distributed
- **2025-05-02** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2025-05-05** Considered in Calendars
- **2025-05-07** Placed on Resolutions Calendar
- **2025-05-07** Laid before the House `receipt`
- **2025-05-07** Adopted `passage`
- **2025-05-07** Record vote
- **2025-05-07** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-05-08** Received from the House `introduction`
- **2025-05-08** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-05-08** Referred to Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-12** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2025-05-12** Considered in public hearing
- **2025-05-12** Vote taken in committee
- **2025-05-12** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-12** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2025-05-12** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2025-05-14** Co-sponsor authorized
- **2025-05-14** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2025-05-14** Laid before the Senate `receipt`
- **2025-05-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-05-14** Adopted `passage`
- **2025-05-14** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-05-14** Senate passage reported `passage`
- **2025-05-15** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-15** Signed in the House `passage`
- **2025-05-16** Signed in the Senate `passage`
- **2025-05-16** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-28** 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/df26c8e2-afca-4fb5-bd4d-a35970db8f8a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).