---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to lighting equipment requirements for motor vehicles."
description: "Relating to lighting equipment requirements for motor vehicles."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "89R"
identifier: "SB 1493"
citation: "Texas SB 1493 (89R)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LIGHTING (S0126)", "Vehicles & Traffic--Equipment (I0855)", "Vehicles & Traffic--Rules of Road (I0860)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Parker", "Patterson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 48
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-02-20"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/21049448-af6e-4f8b-910c-48ebabd04f89"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB01400_SB01499/SB 1493.xml"
source_hash: "b5f4d2355e70d64b0ebc938caf0f0c18d7f3ea47f841f4db2a0d8413963ae830"
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 1493 (89R) — Relating to lighting equipment requirements for motor vehicles.

## 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/SB01493I.HTM)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB01493E.HTM)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB01493H.HTM)
4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB01493S.HTM)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB01493F.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **138–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Parker — primary (person)
- Patterson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-20** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing, introduction`
- **2025-02-20** Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-06** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-03-06** Referred to Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2025-04-02** Considered in public hearing
- **2025-04-02** Testimony taken in committee
- **2025-04-02** Vote taken in committee
- **2025-04-02** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2025-04-02** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2025-04-10** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2025-04-10** Laid before the Senate `receipt`
- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-04-10** Three day rule suspended
- **2025-04-10** Record vote
- **2025-04-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-10** Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-10** Record vote
- **2025-04-10** Reported engrossed
- **2025-04-14** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2025-04-17** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-17** Referred to Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-12** Withdrawn from schedule `withdrawal`
- **2025-05-09** Considered in formal meeting
- **2025-05-09** Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-09** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-15** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
- **2025-05-15** Committee report distributed
- **2025-05-16** Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
- **2025-05-19** Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
- **2025-05-21** Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
- **2025-05-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-05-21** Passed to 3rd reading
- **2025-05-21** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-05-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-05-21** Passed `passage`
- **2025-05-21** Record vote
- **2025-05-21** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-05-21** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-05-22** House passage reported `passage`
- **2025-05-22** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-23** Signed in the Senate `passage`
- **2025-05-23** Signed in the House `passage`
- **2025-05-23** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-20** Filed without the Governor's signature `became-law`
- **2025-06-20** Effective on 9/1/25 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/21049448-af6e-4f8b-910c-48ebabd04f89`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).