---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to severance pay for certain political subdivision employees."
description: "Relating to severance pay for certain political subdivision employees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "89R"
identifier: "SB 2237"
citation: "Texas SB 2237 (89R)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["City Government--Employees/Officers (I0061)", "County Government--Employees/Officers (I0095)", "Political Subdivisions (I0588)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bell, Cecil", "Bettencourt"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 48
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-11"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bdacc6dd-52f4-4767-b4f1-ec81ef0687ac"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB02200_SB02299/SB 2237.xml"
source_hash: "bd0a42f6ee29e72deb1d9157e020cc34d392de67f11c0097daecdc7cca8e4767"
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 2237 (89R) — Relating to severance pay for certain political subdivision employees.

## 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/SB02237I.HTM)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB02237E.HTM)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB02237H.HTM)
4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB02237S.HTM)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB02237F.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **124–13** (pass) · lower
- passage — **117–20** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bell, Cecil — primary (person)
- Bettencourt — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-11** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing, introduction`
- **2025-03-11** Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-25** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-03-25** Referred to Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2025-03-31** Considered in public hearing
- **2025-03-31** Testimony taken in committee
- **2025-03-31** Left pending in committee
- **2025-04-03** Considered in public hearing
- **2025-04-03** Vote taken in committee
- **2025-04-07** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2025-04-07** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2025-04-16** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2025-04-16** Laid before the Senate `receipt`
- **2025-04-16** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment `reading-2`
- **2025-04-16** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-04-16** Three day rule suspended
- **2025-04-16** Record vote
- **2025-04-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-16** Record vote
- **2025-04-16** Reported engrossed
- **2025-04-17** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2025-04-22** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-22** Referred to Intergovernmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-28** Considered in formal meeting
- **2025-04-28** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-09** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
- **2025-05-09** Committee report distributed
- **2025-05-10** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2025-05-19** Considered in Calendars
- **2025-05-21** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2025-05-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-05-22** Passed to 3rd reading
- **2025-05-22** Record vote
- **2025-05-22** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-05-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-05-23** Passed `passage`
- **2025-05-23** Record vote
- **2025-05-23** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-05-23** House passage reported `passage`
- **2025-05-23** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-26** Signed in the Senate `passage`
- **2025-05-26** Signed in the House `passage`
- **2025-05-27** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **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/bdacc6dd-52f4-4767-b4f1-ec81ef0687ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).