---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to a cause of action for the bad faith washout of an overriding royalty interest in an oil and gas lease."
description: "Relating to a cause of action for the bad faith washout of an overriding royalty interest in an oil and gas lease."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "88"
identifier: "HB 450"
citation: "Texas HB 450 (88)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Civil Remedies & Liabilities (I0065)", "Courts--District (I0120)", "Mines & Mineral Resources (I0536)", "Oil & Gas (I0545)", "Property Interests--Real Property (I0595)", "ROYALTIES (S0398)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burrows", "Craddick", "Hughes", "Morales, Eddie"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 47
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-11-14"
last_action: "2023-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2db4db46-6de9-4782-8028-33415702d240"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/88R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00400_HB00499/HB 450.xml"
source_hash: "e29587b8c37f9d1233557125d4ce93b9479d509ba8806df119f73a7211b16d40"
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 450 (88) — Relating to a cause of action for the bad faith washout of an overriding royalty interest in an oil and gas lease.

## 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/HB00450I.HTM)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB00450E.HTM)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB00450H.HTM)
4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB00450S.HTM)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB00450F.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **143–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Burrows — primary (person)
- Craddick — primary (person)
- Hughes — primary (person)
- Morales, Eddie — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-11-14** Filed `filing`
- **2023-02-23** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-23** Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-08** Considered in public hearing
- **2023-03-08** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2023-03-08** Left pending in committee
- **2023-03-15** Considered in public hearing
- **2023-03-15** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-21** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
- **2023-03-21** Committee report distributed
- **2023-03-22** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2023-04-05** Considered in Calendars
- **2023-04-10** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2023-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-10** Passed to engrossment
- **2023-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-11** Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-11** Record vote
- **2023-04-11** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2023-04-11** Reported engrossed
- **2023-04-11** Received from the House `introduction`
- **2023-04-12** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-04-12** Referred to Administration `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-18** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2023-04-18** Considered in public hearing
- **2023-04-18** Vote taken in committee
- **2023-04-20** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2023-04-19** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-19** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2023-04-19** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2023-04-20** Removed from local & uncontested calendar
- **2023-04-27** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2023-04-27** Laid before the Senate `receipt`
- **2023-04-27** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-04-27** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2023-04-27** Three day rule suspended
- **2023-04-27** Record vote
- **2023-04-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-27** Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-27** Record vote
- **2023-04-27** Senate passage reported `passage`
- **2023-04-27** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-04-28** Signed in the House `passage`
- **2023-05-01** Signed in the Senate `passage`
- **2023-05-02** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-13** Filed without the Governor's signature `became-law`
- **2023-05-13** 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/2db4db46-6de9-4782-8028-33415702d240`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).