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| Bill |
Relating to employment protections for jury service. |
Relating to employment protections for jury service. |
us/states/tx |
Texas Legislature |
86 |
SB 370 |
Texas SB 370 (86) |
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| Courts--Juries (I0145) |
| Labor--General (I0500) |
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enacted |
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1 |
43 |
1 |
2019-01-16 |
2019-05-25 |
openstates |
ocd-bill/14ce0a94-188a-41aa-b7eb-9494f49f5859 |
ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00300_SB00399/SB 370.xml |
c11384bbaf11ade2152fdd98a0f40809e1df1ffbc12cfd8215a6c98506a1cadb |
2026-07-01 |
https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump |
2026-07-06 |
reported |
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Texas SB 370 (86) — Relating to employment protections for jury service.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
Votes
- passage — 139–0 (pass) · lower
- Smithee — primary (person)
- Watson — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2019-01-16 Received by the Secretary of the Senate
filing
- 2019-01-16 Filed
filing
- 2019-02-07 Read first time
introduction, reading-1
- 2019-02-07 Referred to State Affairs
referral-committee
- 2019-03-21 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- 2019-03-21 Meeting cancelled
- 2019-04-04 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- 2019-04-04 Considered in public hearing
- 2019-04-08 Reported favorably w/o amendments
committee-passage-favorable
- 2019-04-08 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- 2019-04-08 Committee report printed and distributed
- 2019-04-17 Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- 2019-04-17 Laid before the Senate
- 2019-04-17 Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
- 2019-04-17 Vote recorded in Journal
- 2019-04-17 Three day rule suspended
- 2019-04-17 Record vote
- 2019-04-17 Read 3rd time
reading-3
- 2019-04-17 Passed
passage
- 2019-04-17 Record vote
- 2019-04-17 Reported engrossed
- 2019-04-18 Received from the Senate
introduction
- 2019-04-23 Read first time
introduction, reading-1
- 2019-04-23 Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence
referral-committee
- 2019-04-29 Considered in public hearing
- 2019-04-29 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)
committee-passage
- 2019-05-06 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- 2019-05-06 Committee report distributed
- 2019-05-07 Committee report sent to Calendars
- 2019-05-10 Considered in Calendars
- 2019-05-13 Placed on General State Calendar
- 2019-05-13 Read 2nd time
reading-2
- 2019-05-13 Passed to 3rd reading
- 2019-05-14 Read 3rd time
reading-3
- 2019-05-14 Passed
passage
- 2019-05-14 Record vote
- 2019-05-14 House passage reported
- 2019-05-14 Reported enrolled
- 2019-05-15 Signed in the Senate
- 2019-05-15 Signed in the House
- 2019-05-15 Sent to the Governor
executive-receipt
- 2019-05-25 Signed by the Governor
executive-signature
- 2019-05-25 Effective on 9/1/19
became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/14ce0a94-188a-41aa-b7eb-9494f49f5859. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
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