---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to prohibiting certain state governmental entities from investing in certain Chinese-affiliated entities."
description: "Relating to prohibiting certain state governmental entities from investing in certain Chinese-affiliated entities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "89R"
identifier: "SB 667"
citation: "Texas SB 667 (89R)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business & Commerce--General (I0050)", "COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS (V2608)", "Civil Remedies & Liabilities (I0065)", "EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF TEXAS (ERS) (V0471)", "Financial--General (I0365)", "INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (S0038)", "Intergovernmental Relations (I0447)", "MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM", "TEXAS (NA6QK)", "PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (GN3A2)", "Retirement Systems--County & District (I0731)", "Retirement Systems--General (I0725)", "Retirement Systems--Municipal (I0729)", "Retirement Systems--Police & Firefighters (I0730)", "Retirement Systems--State Employees (I0727)", "Retirement Systems--Teachers (I0726)", "State Agencies", "Boards & Commissions (I0749)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barry", "Hughes"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 51
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-12-19"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7d3e4651-e575-47fe-9dba-b7ca572501d0"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00600_SB00699/SB 667.xml"
source_hash: "99cb27898bc3a5f768fb3acf9519a570cc86e3cf637a877f1568f7ae36b1bce2"
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 667 (89R) — Relating to prohibiting certain state governmental entities from investing in certain Chinese-affiliated entities.

## 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/SB00667I.HTM)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00667E.HTM)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00667H.HTM)
4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00667S.HTM)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00667F.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **90–50** (pass) · lower
- passage — **87–54** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barry — primary (person)
- Hughes — primary (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-19** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing, introduction`
- **2024-12-19** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-03** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2025-03-17** Considered in public hearing
- **2025-03-17** Testimony taken in committee
- **2025-03-17** Left pending in committee
- **2025-03-20** Considered in public hearing
- **2025-03-20** Vote taken in committee
- **2025-03-24** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-24** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2025-03-24** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2025-03-25** Co-author authorized
- **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`
- **2025-04-22** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-22** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-12** Considered in public hearing
- **2025-05-12** Left pending in committee
- **2025-05-12** Considered in formal meeting
- **2025-05-12** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-19** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
- **2025-05-19** Committee report distributed
- **2025-05-20** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2025-05-23** Considered in Calendars
- **2025-05-25** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2025-05-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-05-27** Passed to 3rd reading
- **2025-05-27** Record vote
- **2025-05-27** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-05-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-05-28** Passed `passage`
- **2025-05-28** Record vote
- **2025-05-28** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-05-28** House passage reported `passage`
- **2025-05-28** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-30** Signed in the Senate `passage`
- **2025-06-01** Signed in the House `passage`
- **2025-06-01** 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/7d3e4651-e575-47fe-9dba-b7ca572501d0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).