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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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---
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Relating to establishing a guardianship abuse, fraud, and exploitation deterrence program."
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description: "Relating to establishing a guardianship abuse, fraud, and exploitation deterrence program."
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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 31"
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citation: "Texas SB 31 (86)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Courts--General (I0160)", "Probate--Guardians & Related Trusts (I0589)", "FRAUD (S0166)", "GUARDIANS & WARDS (S0301)", "COURT ADMINISTRATION", "OFFICE OF (V8690)"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Birdwell", "Creighton", "Guillen", "Huffman", "Hughes", "Lucio", "Nelson", "Perry", "Smithee", "Zaffirini"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 49
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vote_count: 1
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first_action: "2018-11-12"
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last_action: "2019-06-14"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4015d5f0-9c9e-4c05-a7dc-77264dd582d2"
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source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00001_SB00099/SB 31.xml"
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source_hash: "ad556e4e5f94c098bcc6a817ce05621b1190196810e94947c3d59b21629153a4"
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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 31 (86) — Relating to establishing a guardianship abuse, fraud, and exploitation deterrence program.
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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/SB00031I.HTM)
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## Votes
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- passage — **140–2** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Birdwell — primary (person)
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- Creighton — primary (person)
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- Guillen — primary (person)
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- Huffman — primary (person)
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- Hughes — primary (person)
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- Lucio — primary (person)
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- Nelson — primary (person)
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- Perry — primary (person)
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- Smithee — primary (person)
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- Zaffirini — primary (person)
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- Fallon — cosponsor (person)
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- Hall — cosponsor (person)
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- Hinojosa — cosponsor (person)
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- Kolkhorst — cosponsor (person)
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- Miles — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2018-11-12** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
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- **2018-11-12** 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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- **2019-02-12** Co-author authorized
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- **2019-02-26** Co-author authorized
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- **2019-03-07** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
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- **2019-03-07** Meeting cancelled
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- **2019-03-11** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
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- **2019-03-11** Considered in public hearing
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- **2019-03-11** Testimony taken in committee
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- **2019-03-11** Left pending in committee
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- **2019-04-01** Considered in public hearing
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- **2019-04-03** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2019-04-03** Committee report printed and distributed
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- **2019-04-04** Co-author authorized
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- **2019-04-08** Placed on intent calendar
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- **2019-04-09** Co-author authorized
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- **2019-04-09** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
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- **2019-04-09** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
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- **2019-04-09** Vote recorded in Journal
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- **2019-04-09** Three day rule suspended
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- **2019-04-09** Record vote
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- **2019-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2019-04-09** Passed `passage`
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- **2019-04-09** Record vote
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- **2019-04-09** Reported engrossed
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- **2019-04-10** Received from the Senate `introduction`
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- **2019-04-11** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
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- **2019-04-11** Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence `referral-committee`
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- **2019-04-18** Considered in formal meeting
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- **2019-04-18** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
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- **2019-05-02** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
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- **2019-05-02** Committee report distributed
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- **2019-05-02** Committee report sent to Calendars
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- **2019-05-14** Considered in Calendars
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- **2019-05-16** Placed on General State Calendar
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- **2019-05-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2019-05-16** Passed to 3rd reading
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- **2019-05-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2019-05-17** Passed `passage`
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- **2019-05-17** Record vote
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- **2019-05-17** House passage reported
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- **2019-05-17** Reported enrolled
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- **2019-05-20** Signed in the Senate
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- **2019-05-21** Signed in the House
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- **2019-05-21** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2019-06-14** Filed without the Governor's signature
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- **2019-06-14** 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/4015d5f0-9c9e-4c05-a7dc-77264dd582d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
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