---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to exemptions from sales and use taxes for game animals and exotic animals."
description: "Relating to exemptions from sales and use taxes for game animals and exotic animals."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "89R"
identifier: "HB 135"
citation: "Texas HB 135 (89R)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Animals (I0035)", "Taxation--Sales (I0800)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Button", "Campbell", "Capriglione", "Meyer", "Noble", "Turner"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 51
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-12"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/35d6abf4-e75e-449d-bce4-27cf7ef56355"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00100_HB00199/HB 135.xml"
source_hash: "d9c150ffd425019a95de068456f46afa9843930cb6d7506053c929f32fa240ce"
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 135 (89R) — Relating to exemptions from sales and use taxes for game animals and exotic animals.

## 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/89R/billtext/html/HB00135I.HTM)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB00135E.HTM)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB00135H.HTM)
4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB00135S.HTM)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB00135F.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **126–21** (pass) · lower
- passage — **118–27** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Button — primary (person)
- Campbell — primary (person)
- Capriglione — primary (person)
- Meyer — primary (person)
- Noble — primary (person)
- Turner — primary (person)
- Ashby — cosponsor (person)
- Bonnen — cosponsor (person)
- Flores — cosponsor (person)
- Guillen — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Lopez, Ray — cosponsor (person)
- Metcalf — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-12** Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-12** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-03-12** Referred to Ways & Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** Considered in public hearing
- **2025-03-17** Committee substitute considered in committee `substitution`
- **2025-03-17** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2025-03-17** Left pending in committee
- **2025-03-20** Considered in formal meeting
- **2025-03-20** Committee substitute considered in committee `substitution`
- **2025-03-20** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-24** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
- **2025-03-24** Committee report distributed
- **2025-03-24** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2025-03-27** Considered in Calendars
- **2025-04-01** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2025-04-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-01** Passed to engrossment
- **2025-04-01** Record vote
- **2025-04-01** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-04-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-02** Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Record vote
- **2025-04-02** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-04-02** Reported engrossed
- **2025-04-02** Received from the House `introduction`
- **2025-04-03** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-03** Referred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-23** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2025-04-23** Considered in public hearing
- **2025-04-23** Testimony taken in committee
- **2025-04-23** Vote taken in committee
- **2025-04-23** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-23** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2025-04-23** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2025-04-24** Co-sponsor authorized
- **2025-05-01** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2025-05-01** Laid before the Senate `receipt`
- **2025-05-01** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading `reading-2`
- **2025-05-01** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-05-01** Three day rule suspended
- **2025-05-01** Record vote
- **2025-05-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-05-01** Passed `passage`
- **2025-05-01** Record vote
- **2025-05-01** Senate passage reported `passage`
- **2025-05-01** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-02** Signed in the House `passage`
- **2025-05-05** Signed in the Senate `passage`
- **2025-05-05** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-13** Effective immediately `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/35d6abf4-e75e-449d-bce4-27cf7ef56355`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).