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type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to a reporting requirement for certain incidents of sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, or stalking at certain public and private institutions of higher education; creating a criminal offense; authorizing administrative penalties."
description: "Relating to a reporting requirement for certain incidents of sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, or stalking at certain public and private institutions of higher education; creating a criminal offense; authorizing administrative penalties."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "SB 212"
citation: "Texas SB 212 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes--Against Persons--Sexual (I0171)", "Education--Higher--General (I0231)", "Family--Family Violence (I0353)", "SEXUAL ASSAULT (S4375)", "SEXUAL HARASSMENT (S4376)", "STAFF DEVELOPMENT & TRAINING (S0317)", "STALKING (S0044)", "HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD", "TEXAS (V4280)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Button", "Huffman", "Morrison", "Neave"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 54
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-11-30"
last_action: "2019-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74c046c3-72d8-4663-b139-68c5c26d8f8f"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00200_SB00299/SB 212.xml"
source_hash: "e17d53ef93fcab46aede501490470338f9e76a6c0bebc00a055d3d4784c3db70"
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 212 (86) — Relating to a reporting requirement for certain incidents of sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, or stalking at certain public and private institutions of higher education; creating a criminal offense; authorizing administrative penalties.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/86R/billtext/html/SB00212I.HTM)
## Votes
- passage — **12813** (pass) · lower
- other — **00** (fail) · upper
- other — **00** (fail) · upper
## Sponsors
- Button — primary (person)
- Huffman — primary (person)
- Morrison — primary (person)
- Neave — primary (person)
- Alvarado — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Zaffirini — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-11-30** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
- **2018-11-30** Filed `filing`
- **2019-02-01** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-01** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-04** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-03-04** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-03-07** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-07** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-03-07** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-03-18** Placed on intent calendar
- **2019-03-26** Co-author authorized
- **2019-03-26** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- **2019-03-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-26** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2019-03-26** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-26** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-03-26** Passed to engrossment as amended
- **2019-03-26** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-03-26** Three day rule suspended
- **2019-03-26** Record vote
- **2019-03-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-26** Passed `passage`
- **2019-03-26** Record vote
- **2019-03-26** Reported engrossed
- **2019-03-27** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2019-04-01** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-04-01** Referred to Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-24** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2019-04-24** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2019-04-24** Left pending in committee
- **2019-05-14** Scheduled for formal meeting on . . .
- **2019-05-14** Considered in formal meeting
- **2019-05-14** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
- **2019-05-15** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-05-15** Committee report distributed
- **2019-05-16** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2019-05-17** Considered in Calendars
- **2019-05-20** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2019-05-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-20** Postponed
- **2019-05-21** Laid out as postponed business
- **2019-05-21** Passed to 3rd reading
- **2019-05-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-22** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-22** Record vote
- **2019-05-22** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-22** House passage reported
- **2019-05-22** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-24** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-25** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-25** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-14** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-14** See remarks for effective date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/74c046c3-72d8-4663-b139-68c5c26d8f8f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).