---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to designating October 10 as Supportive Palliative Care Awareness Day."
description: "Relating to designating October 10 as Supportive Palliative Care Awareness Day."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "88"
identifier: "SB 739"
citation: "Texas SB 739 (88)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Care Providers (I0387)", "Holidays (I0395)", "SUPPORTIVE PALLIATIVE CARE AWARENESS DAY (HG6BI)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Johnson", "Jones, Jolanda", "Oliverson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 47
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-02-07"
last_action: "2023-06-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26b06b87-2eb5-4435-8661-0d7f705d4c28"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/88R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00700_SB00799/SB 739.xml"
source_hash: "2af9dc4e47b1f92d201cc132de8f7090aa814083eac8ff73eba0032ca1a39c60"
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 739 (88) — Relating to designating October 10 as Supportive Palliative Care Awareness Day.

## 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/SB00739I.HTM)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB00739E.HTM)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB00739H.HTM)
4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB00739S.HTM)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB00739F.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **142–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Johnson — primary (person)
- Jones, Jolanda — primary (person)
- Oliverson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-07** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing, introduction`
- **2023-02-07** Filed `filing`
- **2023-03-01** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-03-01** Referred to Administration `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2023-03-30** Considered in public hearing
- **2023-03-30** Testimony taken in committee
- **2023-03-30** Vote taken in committee
- **2023-03-30** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-30** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2023-03-30** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2023-04-03** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2023-04-03** Laid before the Senate `receipt`
- **2023-04-03** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment `reading-2`
- **2023-04-03** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2023-04-03** Three day rule suspended
- **2023-04-03** Record vote
- **2023-04-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-03** Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-03** Record vote
- **2023-04-03** Reported engrossed
- **2023-04-03** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2023-04-17** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-04-17** Referred to Public Health `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-08** Considered in public hearing
- **2023-05-08** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2023-05-08** Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-08** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-11** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
- **2023-05-11** Committee report distributed
- **2023-05-12** Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
- **2023-05-17** Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
- **2023-05-19** Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
- **2023-05-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-05-19** Passed to 3rd reading
- **2023-05-19** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
- **2023-05-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-19** Passed `passage`
- **2023-05-19** Record vote
- **2023-05-19** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
- **2023-05-21** House passage reported `passage`
- **2023-05-21** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-05-22** Signed in the Senate `passage`
- **2023-05-22** Signed in the House `passage`
- **2023-05-23** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-18** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-18** 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/26b06b87-2eb5-4435-8661-0d7f705d4c28`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).