---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to compensation and employment condition standards by municipal charter or collective bargaining agreement and to impasse resolution in collective bargaining with certain political subdivisions."
description: "Relating to compensation and employment condition standards by municipal charter or collective bargaining agreement and to impasse resolution in collective bargaining with certain political subdivisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "89R"
identifier: "SB 777"
citation: "Texas SB 777 (89R)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["City Government--Employees/Officers (I0061)", "County Government--Employees/Officers (I0095)", "Fire Fighters & Police--General (I0370)", "LABOR UNIONS (S0078)", "MEDIATION", "DISPUTE RESOLUTION", "& ARBITRATION (S8683)", "Political Subdivisions (I0588)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bumgarner", "Hughes", "Lujan", "Manuel", "Ordaz"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 57
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-14"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/007259c0-13ae-4a68-b341-fbce03b8eb6b"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00700_SB00799/SB 777.xml"
source_hash: "c01191274f20e9f4f41acce4ebae337c4d2f188ca021c4a3dda8246e2fd1320d"
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 777 (89R) — Relating to compensation and employment condition standards by municipal charter or collective bargaining agreement and to impasse resolution in collective bargaining with certain political subdivisions.

## 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/SB00777I.HTM)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00777E.HTM)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00777H.HTM)
4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00777S.HTM)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00777F.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **115–20** (pass) · lower
- passage — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- passage — **96–37** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bumgarner — primary (person)
- Hughes — primary (person)
- Lujan — primary (person)
- Manuel — primary (person)
- Ordaz — primary (person)
- Hinojosa, Adam — cosponsor (person)
- Zaffirini — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-14** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-14** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-07** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-02-07** Referred to Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** Co-author authorized
- **2025-04-07** Co-author authorized
- **2025-04-24** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2025-04-24** Considered in public hearing
- **2025-04-24** Testimony taken in committee
- **2025-04-24** Left pending in committee
- **2025-04-28** Considered in public hearing
- **2025-04-28** Vote taken in committee
- **2025-04-30** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-30** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2025-04-30** 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 & passed to engrossment `reading-2`
- **2025-05-09** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-05-09** Three day rule suspended
- **2025-05-09** Record vote
- **2025-05-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-05-09** Passed `passage`
- **2025-05-09** Record vote
- **2025-05-09** Reported engrossed
- **2025-05-09** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2025-05-12** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-05-12** Referred to Intergovernmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-14** Considered in formal meeting
- **2025-05-14** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-16** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
- **2025-05-16** Committee report distributed
- **2025-05-19** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2025-05-20** Considered in Calendars
- **2025-05-22** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2025-05-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-05-23** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-23** Record vote
- **2025-05-23** Passed to 3rd reading as amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-23** Record vote
- **2025-05-23** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-05-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-05-24** Passed `passage`
- **2025-05-24** Record vote
- **2025-05-24** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-05-25** House passage as amended reported `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-28** House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
- **2025-05-28** Read
- **2025-05-28** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
- **2025-05-28** Record vote
- **2025-05-28** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-29** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported
- **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** 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/007259c0-13ae-4a68-b341-fbce03b8eb6b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).