---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to renaming the Texas Natural Resources Information System as the Texas Geographic Information Office and the duties of certain officers of that entity."
description: "Relating to renaming the Texas Natural Resources Information System as the Texas Geographic Information Office and the duties of certain officers of that entity."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "88"
identifier: "HB 2489"
citation: "Texas HB 2489 (88)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Electronic Information Systems (I0311)", "GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION OFFICE", "TEXAS (VH4YE)", "NATURAL RESOURCES (S0431)", "State Agencies", "Boards & Commissions (I0749)", "State Agencies", "Boards & Commissions--Newly Proposed (I0773)", "WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD", "TEXAS (V2481)", "Water--Development (I0875)", "Water--General (I0885)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kacal", "Kolkhorst"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 46
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-02-17"
last_action: "2023-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c89f6683-c80f-4f77-9feb-d4b574114986"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/88R/billhistory/house_bills/HB02400_HB02499/HB 2489.xml"
source_hash: "23061ca1cb63c17aa6a0978f07e09a37b682f407780eb84548023258415130d9"
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 2489 (88) — Relating to renaming the Texas Natural Resources Information System as the Texas Geographic Information Office and the duties of certain officers of that entity.

## 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/88R/billtext/html/HB02489I.HTM)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB02489E.HTM)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB02489H.HTM)
4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB02489S.HTM)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB02489F.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **140–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kacal — primary (person)
- Kolkhorst — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-17** Filed `filing`
- **2023-03-13** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-03-13** Referred to Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-21** Considered in public hearing
- **2023-03-21** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2023-03-21** Left pending in committee
- **2023-03-23** Considered in formal meeting
- **2023-03-23** Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-23** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-29** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
- **2023-03-29** Committee report distributed
- **2023-04-03** Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
- **2023-04-11** Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
- **2023-04-14** Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
- **2023-04-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-14** Passed to engrossment
- **2023-04-14** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
- **2023-04-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-14** Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-14** Record vote
- **2023-04-14** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
- **2023-04-14** Reported engrossed
- **2023-04-17** Received from the House `introduction`
- **2023-04-19** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-04-19** Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-03** Considered in public hearing
- **2023-05-03** Vote taken in committee
- **2023-05-04** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-04** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2023-05-04** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2023-05-17** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2023-05-17** Laid before the Senate `receipt`
- **2023-05-17** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-05-17** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2023-05-17** Three day rule suspended
- **2023-05-17** Record vote
- **2023-05-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-17** Passed `passage`
- **2023-05-17** Record vote
- **2023-05-17** Senate passage reported `passage`
- **2023-05-18** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-05-19** Signed in the House `passage`
- **2023-05-21** Signed in the Senate `passage`
- **2023-05-22** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-12** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-12** Effective on 9/1/23 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c89f6683-c80f-4f77-9feb-d4b574114986`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).