type, title, description, jurisdiction, legislature, session, identifier, citation, classification, subjects, status, primary_sponsors, version_count, action_count, vote_count, first_action, last_action, source, source_identifier, source_url, source_hash, vintage, source_snapshot, retrieved_at, confidence, tags
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| Bill |
Relating to retaliation for municipal annexation disapproval. |
Relating to retaliation for municipal annexation disapproval. |
us/states/tx |
Texas Legislature |
86 |
HB 4257 |
Texas HB 4257 (86) |
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| City Government--Annexation (I0063) |
| City Government--Utilities (I0068) |
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enacted |
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1 |
44 |
0 |
2019-03-08 |
2019-06-10 |
openstates |
ocd-bill/7946816e-9b2a-4bbd-8d7e-88f01fe68ea8 |
ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB04200_HB04299/HB 4257.xml |
1bd74e120abb1198223a87d965244009ce50d02f6b46b35088e02b9a313b15d5 |
2026-07-01 |
https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump |
2026-07-06 |
reported |
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Texas HB 4257 (86) — Relating to retaliation for municipal annexation disapproval.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Campbell — primary (person)
- Craddick — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2019-03-08 Filed
filing
- 2019-03-25 Read first time
introduction, reading-1
- 2019-03-25 Referred to Land & Resource Management
referral-committee
- 2019-04-09 Considered in public hearing
- 2019-04-09 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- 2019-04-09 Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent
referral-committee
- 2019-04-09 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)
committee-passage
- 2019-04-15 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- 2019-04-15 Committee report distributed
- 2019-04-16 Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
- 2019-04-23 Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
- 2019-04-26 Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
- 2019-04-26 Read 2nd time
reading-2
- 2019-04-26 Passed to engrossment
- 2019-04-26 Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
- 2019-04-26 Read 3rd time
reading-3
- 2019-04-26 Passed
passage
- 2019-04-26 Record vote
- 2019-04-26 Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
- 2019-04-26 Reported engrossed
- 2019-04-29 Received from the House
introduction
- 2019-04-29 Read first time
introduction, reading-1
- 2019-04-29 Referred to Intergovernmental Relations
referral-committee
- 2019-05-14 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- 2019-05-14 Considered in public hearing
- 2019-05-17 Reported favorably w/o amendments
committee-passage-favorable
- 2019-05-17 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- 2019-05-17 Committee report printed and distributed
- 2019-05-22 Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- 2019-05-22 Laid before the Senate
- 2019-05-22 Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
- 2019-05-22 Vote recorded in Journal
- 2019-05-22 Three day rule suspended
- 2019-05-22 Record vote
- 2019-05-22 Read 3rd time
reading-3
- 2019-05-22 Passed
passage
- 2019-05-22 Record vote
- 2019-05-23 Senate passage reported
- 2019-05-23 Reported enrolled
- 2019-05-24 Signed in the House
- 2019-05-25 Signed in the Senate
- 2019-05-26 Sent to the Governor
executive-receipt
- 2019-06-10 Signed by the Governor
executive-signature
- 2019-06-10 Effective immediately
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7946816e-9b2a-4bbd-8d7e-88f01fe68ea8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
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