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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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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."
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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."
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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: "SB 212"
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citation: "Texas SB 212 (86)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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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)"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Button", "Huffman", "Morrison", "Neave"]
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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: "2018-11-30"
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last_action: "2019-06-14"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74c046c3-72d8-4663-b139-68c5c26d8f8f"
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source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00200_SB00299/SB 212.xml"
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source_hash: "e17d53ef93fcab46aede501490470338f9e76a6c0bebc00a055d3d4784c3db70"
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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 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.
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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/SB00212I.HTM)
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## Votes
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- passage — **128–13** (pass) · lower
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- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
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- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Button — primary (person)
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- Huffman — primary (person)
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- Morrison — primary (person)
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- Neave — primary (person)
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- Alvarado — cosponsor (person)
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- West — cosponsor (person)
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- Zaffirini — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2018-11-30** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
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- **2018-11-30** Filed `filing`
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- **2019-02-01** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
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- **2019-02-01** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
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- **2019-03-04** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
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- **2019-03-04** Considered in public hearing
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- **2019-03-07** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2019-03-07** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
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- **2019-03-07** Committee report printed and distributed
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- **2019-03-18** Placed on intent calendar
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- **2019-03-26** Co-author authorized
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- **2019-03-26** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
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- **2019-03-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2019-03-26** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
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- **2019-03-26** Amended `amendment-passage`
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- **2019-03-26** Vote recorded in Journal
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- **2019-03-26** Passed to engrossment as amended
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- **2019-03-26** Vote recorded in Journal
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- **2019-03-26** Three day rule suspended
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- **2019-03-26** Record vote
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- **2019-03-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2019-03-26** Passed `passage`
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- **2019-03-26** Record vote
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- **2019-03-26** Reported engrossed
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- **2019-03-27** Received from the Senate `introduction`
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- **2019-04-01** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
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- **2019-04-01** Referred to Higher Education `referral-committee`
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- **2019-04-24** Considered in public hearing
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- **2019-04-24** Committee substitute considered in committee
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- **2019-04-24** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
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- **2019-04-24** Left pending in committee
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- **2019-05-14** Scheduled for formal meeting on . . .
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- **2019-05-14** Considered in formal meeting
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- **2019-05-14** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
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- **2019-05-15** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
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- **2019-05-15** Committee report distributed
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- **2019-05-16** Committee report sent to Calendars
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- **2019-05-17** Considered in Calendars
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- **2019-05-20** Placed on General State Calendar
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- **2019-05-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2019-05-20** Postponed
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- **2019-05-21** Laid out as postponed business
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- **2019-05-21** Passed to 3rd reading
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- **2019-05-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2019-05-22** Passed `passage`
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- **2019-05-22** Record vote
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- **2019-05-22** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
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- **2019-05-22** House passage reported
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- **2019-05-22** Reported enrolled
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- **2019-05-24** Signed in the Senate
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- **2019-05-25** Signed in the House
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- **2019-05-25** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2019-06-14** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2019-06-14** See remarks for effective date
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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/74c046c3-72d8-4663-b139-68c5c26d8f8f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
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