---
type: "Bill"
title: "Designating April as Counseling Awareness Month for a 10-year period ending in 2035."
description: "Designating April as Counseling Awareness Month for a 10-year period ending in 2035."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "89R"
identifier: "HCR 29"
citation: "Texas HCR 29 (89R)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["COUNSELING AWARENESS MONTH (HW5F9)", "Resolutions--Official Designations--10-Year Significant Dates (I0016)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Garcia Hernandez, Cassandra", "Hull", "Lopez, Janie", "Ordaz", "Romero", "Zaffirini"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 38
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-11-15"
last_action: "2025-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/027b2502-aa5f-49d3-b89c-de48011c3e74"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/house_concurrent_resolutions/HCR00001_HCR00099/HCR 29.xml"
source_hash: "dc366b909774c0339d8844656f0952e9d775fe32a5eba1e0c9d8176b29f5bcb9"
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 29 (89R) — Designating April as Counseling Awareness Month for a 10-year period ending in 2035.

## 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/HC00029I.HTM)
2. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HC00029H.HTM)
3. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HC00029S.HTM)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HC00029F.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **127–17** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Garcia Hernandez, Cassandra — primary (person)
- Hull — primary (person)
- Lopez, Janie — primary (person)
- Ordaz — primary (person)
- Romero — primary (person)
- Zaffirini — primary (person)
- Morales, Eddie — cosponsor (person)
- Plesa — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-15** Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-05** Referred to s/c on Dis Prev & Women's & Children's Health by Speaker `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Scheduled for public hearing in s/c on . . .
- **2025-03-27** Considered by s/c in public hearing
- **2025-03-27** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in subcommittee
- **2025-03-27** Left pending in subcommittee
- **2025-04-14** Considered in public hearing
- **2025-04-14** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-16** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
- **2025-04-16** Committee report distributed
- **2025-04-17** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2025-04-22** Considered in Calendars
- **2025-04-24** Placed on Resolutions Calendar
- **2025-04-24** Laid before the House `receipt`
- **2025-04-24** Adopted `passage`
- **2025-04-24** Record vote
- **2025-04-24** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-04-28** Received from the House `introduction`
- **2025-04-29** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-29** Referred to Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2025-05-07** Considered in public hearing
- **2025-05-07** Testimony taken in committee
- **2025-05-07** Vote taken in committee
- **2025-05-07** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-07** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2025-05-07** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2025-05-09** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2025-05-09** Laid before the Senate `receipt`
- **2025-05-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-05-09** Adopted `passage`
- **2025-05-09** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-05-09** Senate passage reported `passage`
- **2025-05-10** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-12** Signed in the House `passage`
- **2025-05-12** Signed in the Senate `passage`
- **2025-05-13** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-24** 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/027b2502-aa5f-49d3-b89c-de48011c3e74`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).