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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
Bill Relating to the protection of expressive activities at public institutions of higher education. Relating to the protection of expressive activities at public institutions of higher education. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 86 SB 18 Texas SB 18 (86)
bill
Civil Remedies & Liabilities (I0065)
Education--Higher--Institutions & Programs (I0223)
enacted
Cain
Geren
Goldman
Huffman
Nelson
Oliverson
Phelan
1 80 2 2019-02-25 2019-06-10 openstates ocd-bill/91730452-24ed-4015-a448-f5858c0f906e ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00001_SB00099/SB 18.xml a6cecd0a09a1f3ec94b9fd88ba41f083355ca71bcc225593ac54806722cf1aca 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-tx

Texas SB 18 (86) — Relating to the protection of expressive activities at public institutions of higher education.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

  1. Introduced (filed) — source

Votes

  • other — 10637 (fail) · upper
  • passage — 8658 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Cain — primary (person)
  • Geren — primary (person)
  • Goldman — primary (person)
  • Huffman — primary (person)
  • Nelson — primary (person)
  • Oliverson — primary (person)
  • Phelan — primary (person)
  • Allison — cosponsor (person)
  • Anderson, Charles "Doc" — cosponsor (person)
  • Bell, Cecil — cosponsor (person)
  • Bell, Keith — cosponsor (person)
  • Bettencourt — cosponsor (person)
  • Biedermann — cosponsor (person)
  • Bohac — cosponsor (person)
  • Bonnen, Greg — cosponsor (person)
  • Buckingham — cosponsor (person)
  • Buckley — cosponsor (person)
  • Burns — cosponsor (person)
  • Burrows — cosponsor (person)
  • Campbell — cosponsor (person)
  • Capriglione — cosponsor (person)
  • Clardy — cosponsor (person)
  • Craddick — cosponsor (person)
  • Creighton — cosponsor (person)
  • Cyrier — cosponsor (person)
  • Darby — cosponsor (person)
  • Dean — cosponsor (person)
  • Fallon — cosponsor (person)
  • Flynn — cosponsor (person)
  • Frank — cosponsor (person)
  • Harris — cosponsor (person)
  • Hefner — cosponsor (person)
  • Holland — cosponsor (person)
  • Hunter — cosponsor (person)
  • King, Phil — cosponsor (person)
  • Klick — cosponsor (person)
  • Krause — cosponsor (person)
  • Lambert — cosponsor (person)
  • Landgraf — cosponsor (person)
  • Lang — cosponsor (person)
  • Leach — cosponsor (person)
  • Leman — cosponsor (person)
  • Lozano — cosponsor (person)
  • Lucio — cosponsor (person)
  • Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
  • Middleton — cosponsor (person)
  • Miller — cosponsor (person)
  • Morrison — cosponsor (person)
  • Murphy — cosponsor (person)
  • Murr — cosponsor (person)
  • Paddie — cosponsor (person)
  • Parker — cosponsor (person)
  • Patterson — cosponsor (person)
  • Paul — cosponsor (person)
  • Price — cosponsor (person)
  • Sanford — cosponsor (person)
  • Schaefer — cosponsor (person)
  • Schwertner — cosponsor (person)
  • Shaheen — cosponsor (person)
  • Shine — cosponsor (person)
  • Smith — cosponsor (person)
  • Smithee — cosponsor (person)
  • Springer — cosponsor (person)
  • Stucky — cosponsor (person)
  • Swanson — cosponsor (person)
  • Thompson, Ed — cosponsor (person)
  • Tinderholt — cosponsor (person)
  • Toth — cosponsor (person)
  • VanDeaver — cosponsor (person)
  • White — cosponsor (person)
  • Wray — cosponsor (person)
  • Zaffirini — cosponsor (person)
  • Zedler — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2019-02-25 Received by the Secretary of the Senate filing
  • 2019-02-25 Filed filing
  • 2019-03-01 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2019-03-01 Referred to State Affairs referral-committee
  • 2019-03-07 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2019-03-07 Meeting cancelled
  • 2019-03-11 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2019-03-11 Considered in public hearing
  • 2019-03-11 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2019-03-13 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
  • 2019-03-13 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2019-03-18 Co-author authorized
  • 2019-03-18 Placed on intent calendar
  • 2019-03-20 Co-author authorized
  • 2019-03-20 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
  • 2019-03-20 Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
  • 2019-03-20 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2019-03-20 Three day rule suspended
  • 2019-03-20 Record vote
  • 2019-03-20 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2019-03-20 Passed passage
  • 2019-03-20 Record vote
  • 2019-03-20 Reported engrossed
  • 2019-03-21 Received from the Senate introduction
  • 2019-03-28 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2019-03-28 Referred to Higher Education referral-committee
  • 2019-04-25 Considered in formal meeting
  • 2019-04-25 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage
  • 2019-04-26 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
  • 2019-04-26 Committee report distributed
  • 2019-04-29 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2019-05-15 Considered in Calendars
  • 2019-05-17 Placed on General State Calendar
  • 2019-05-17 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2019-05-17 Amended amendment-passage
  • 2019-05-17 Record vote
  • 2019-05-17 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2019-05-17 Amended amendment-passage
  • 2019-05-17 Record vote
  • 2019-05-17 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2019-05-17 Amended amendment-passage
  • 2019-05-17 Record vote
  • 2019-05-17 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2019-05-17 Passed to 3rd reading as amended
  • 2019-05-17 Record vote
  • 2019-05-17 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2019-05-17 Constitutional three day rule suspended
  • 2019-05-17 Record vote
  • 2019-05-17 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2019-05-17 Passed passage
  • 2019-05-17 Record vote
  • 2019-05-17 Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
  • 2019-05-19 House passage as amended reported
  • 2019-05-20 House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
  • 2019-05-20 Read
  • 2019-05-20 Senate refuses to concur
  • 2019-05-20 Senate requests conference committee
  • 2019-05-20 Senate appoints conferees
  • 2019-05-20 Senate refuses to concur-reported
  • 2019-05-20 Senate requests conference committee-reported
  • 2019-05-20 Senate appoints conferees-reported
  • 2019-05-22 House grants request for conference committee
  • 2019-05-22 House appoints conferees
  • 2019-05-22 House grants request for conf comm-reported
  • 2019-05-22 House appoints conferees-reported
  • 2019-05-23 Conference committee report filed
  • 2019-05-24 Conf. Comm. Report distributed
  • 2019-05-25 House adopts conference committee report
  • 2019-05-25 Record vote
  • 2019-05-25 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2019-05-25 House adopts conf. comm. report-reported
  • 2019-05-25 Senate adopts conference committee report
  • 2019-05-25 Record vote
  • 2019-05-25 Reported enrolled
  • 2019-05-26 Senate adopts conf. comm. report-reported
  • 2019-05-26 Signed in the Senate
  • 2019-05-26 Signed in the House
  • 2019-05-26 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
  • 2019-06-10 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2019-06-10 Effective on 9/1/19 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/91730452-24ed-4015-a448-f5858c0f906e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).