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type: "Bill"
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title: "Relating to highway maintenance or construction vehicles, certain service vehicles, and escort flag vehicles, including the use of certain lighting equipment on those vehicles."
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description: "Relating to highway maintenance or construction vehicles, certain service vehicles, and escort flag vehicles, including the use of certain lighting equipment on those vehicles."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
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legislature: "Texas Legislature"
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session: "86"
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identifier: "HB 61"
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citation: "Texas HB 61 (86)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Vehicles & Traffic--Equipment (I0855)", "Vehicles & Traffic--Rules of Road (I0860)", "LIGHTING (S0126)"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Nichols", "White"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 54
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vote_count: 3
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first_action: "2018-11-12"
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last_action: "2019-05-07"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c945819e-1afa-40a9-9a55-50d33fadf97c"
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source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00001_HB00099/HB 61.xml"
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source_hash: "16477d945f7fb5ba615de003bc16a380b0a90c9d3280f90a0b9a7564610d804a"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tx"]
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---
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# Texas HB 61 (86) — Relating to highway maintenance or construction vehicles, certain service vehicles, and escort flag vehicles, including the use of certain lighting equipment on those vehicles.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/86R/billtext/html/HB00061I.HTM)
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## Votes
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- passage — **143–4** (pass) · lower
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- passage — **139–0** (pass) · lower
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- other — **139–0** (fail) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Nichols — primary (person)
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- White — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2018-11-12** Filed `filing`
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- **2019-02-11** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
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- **2019-02-11** Referred to Transportation `referral-committee`
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- **2019-02-27** Considered in public hearing
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- **2019-02-27** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
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- **2019-02-27** Left pending in committee
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- **2019-03-06** Considered in public hearing
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- **2019-03-06** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
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- **2019-03-11** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
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- **2019-03-12** Committee report distributed
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- **2019-03-12** Committee report sent to Calendars
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- **2019-03-13** Considered in Calendars
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- **2019-03-21** Considered in Calendars
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- **2019-03-26** Placed on General State Calendar
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- **2019-03-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2019-03-26** Passed to engrossment
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- **2019-03-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2019-03-27** Passed `passage`
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- **2019-03-27** Record vote
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- **2019-03-27** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
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- **2019-03-27** Reported engrossed
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- **2019-04-01** Received from the House `introduction`
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- **2019-04-02** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
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- **2019-04-02** Referred to Transportation `referral-committee`
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- **2019-04-10** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
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- **2019-04-10** Considered in public hearing
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- **2019-04-10** Testimony taken in committee
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- **2019-04-11** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2019-04-11** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
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- **2019-04-11** Committee report printed and distributed
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- **2019-04-16** Placed on intent calendar
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- **2019-04-17** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
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- **2019-04-17** Laid before the Senate
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- **2019-04-17** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
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- **2019-04-17** Vote recorded in Journal
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- **2019-04-17** Three day rule suspended
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- **2019-04-17** Record vote
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- **2019-04-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2019-04-17** Passed `passage`
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- **2019-04-17** Record vote
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- **2019-04-18** Senate passage as amended reported
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- **2019-04-18** Senate Amendments distributed
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- **2019-04-18** Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
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- **2019-04-29** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
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- **2019-04-29** Record vote
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- **2019-04-29** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
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- **2019-04-29** Text of Senate Amendment(s)
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- **2019-04-29** Reported enrolled
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- **2019-04-30** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported
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- **2019-04-30** Signed in the House
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- **2019-04-30** Signed in the Senate
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- **2019-05-01** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2019-05-07** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2019-05-07** Effective on 9/1/19 `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c945819e-1afa-40a9-9a55-50d33fadf97c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
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