---
type: "Bill"
title: "Directing the governor of the State of Texas to posthumously award the Texas Legislative Medal of Honor to U.S. Army Master Sergeant Mike C. Peña."
description: "Directing the governor of the State of Texas to posthumously award the Texas Legislative Medal of Honor to U.S. Army Master Sergeant Mike C. Peña."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "88"
identifier: "HCR 115"
citation: "Texas HCR 115 (88)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["LEGISLATIVE MEDAL OF HONOR", "TEXAS (S0552)", "PEÑA", "MIKE C. (NT7AK)", "Resolutions--Legislative Policy (I0685)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hancock", "Kitzman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-05-11"
last_action: "2023-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0bfb33f1-8cc5-4a37-baba-368a07fec9be"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/88R/billhistory/house_concurrent_resolutions/HCR00100_HCR00199/HCR 115.xml"
source_hash: "0b862bb5d70703845aaec577587d457ea731cb4315697d7b92b21cc958d9dd67"
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 115 (88) — Directing the governor of the State of Texas to posthumously award the Texas Legislative Medal of Honor to U.S. Army Master Sergeant Mike C. Peña.

## 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/HC00115I.HTM)
2. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HC00115H.HTM)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HC00115F.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **140–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hancock — primary (person)
- Kitzman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-05-11** Filed `filing`
- **2023-05-12** Referred to Defense & Veterans' Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-12** Considered in formal meeting
- **2023-05-12** Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-12** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-12** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
- **2023-05-12** Committee report distributed
- **2023-05-15** Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
- **2023-05-20** Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
- **2023-05-24** Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
- **2023-05-24** Laid before the House `receipt`
- **2023-05-24** Adopted `passage`
- **2023-05-24** Record vote
- **2023-05-24** Received from the House `introduction`
- **2023-05-26** Rules suspended
- **2023-05-26** Laid before the Senate `receipt`
- **2023-05-26** Read
- **2023-05-26** Adopted `passage`
- **2023-05-26** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2023-05-26** Senate passage reported `passage`
- **2023-05-27** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-05-28** Signed in the House `passage`
- **2023-05-29** Signed in the Senate `passage`
- **2023-05-30** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-13** 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/0bfb33f1-8cc5-4a37-baba-368a07fec9be`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).