---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the provision of food service, laundry service, and lawn care to certain mental health facilities and state supported living centers."
description: "Relating to the provision of food service, laundry service, and lawn care to certain mental health facilities and state supported living centers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "SB 1234"
citation: "Texas SB 1234 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["KERRVILLE", "CITY OF (G0104)", "Hospitals (I0400)", "Human Services--General (I0920)", "Mental Health & Substance Abuse (I0019)", "FOOD (S0761)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Buckingham", "Murr"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 45
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-02-27"
last_action: "2019-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c114130-eacd-417d-8769-25985e801baf"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB01200_SB01299/SB 1234.xml"
source_hash: "ed16e03e03257ef01a22ad170006e61b59f21865e4b2752c6e19f37ba6bf5bf6"
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 1234 (86) — Relating to the provision of food service, laundry service, and lawn care to certain mental health facilities and state supported living centers.

## 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/SB01234I.HTM)

## Sponsors

- Buckingham — primary (person)
- Murr — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-27** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
- **2019-02-27** Filed `filing`
- **2019-03-07** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-07** Referred to Health & Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-03-19** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-03-19** Left pending in committee
- **2019-03-27** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-01** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-04-01** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-04-11** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-04-11** Laid before the Senate
- **2019-04-11** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
- **2019-04-11** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-04-11** Three day rule suspended
- **2019-04-11** Record vote
- **2019-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-11** Passed `passage`
- **2019-04-11** Record vote
- **2019-04-11** Reported engrossed
- **2019-04-11** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2019-04-12** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-04-12** Referred to Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-02** Considered in formal meeting
- **2019-05-02** Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-02** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
- **2019-05-03** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-05-04** Committee report distributed
- **2019-05-05** Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
- **2019-05-10** Laid out in lieu of companion
- **2019-05-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-10** Passed to 3rd reading
- **2019-05-10** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-10** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-10** Record vote
- **2019-05-10** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-13** House passage reported
- **2019-05-13** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-14** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-14** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-14** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-22** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-22** Effective immediately

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8c114130-eacd-417d-8769-25985e801baf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).