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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 locations, terms, sessions, and procedures for conducting court proceedings."
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description: "Relating to locations, terms, sessions, and procedures for conducting court proceedings."
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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 40"
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citation: "Texas SB 40 (86)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Courts--Appellate (I0125)", "Courts--County & Statutory (I0115)", "Courts--District (I0120)", "Courts--Judges (I0140)", "Courts--Justice (I0110)", "Courts--Municipal (I0100)", "Disaster Preparedness & Relief (I0211)", "SUPREME COURT (V0311)"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Bonnen, Greg", "Calanni", "Leach", "Murr", "Oliverson", "Zaffirini"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 45
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vote_count: 1
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first_action: "2018-11-12"
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last_action: "2019-06-07"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0642d478-8973-4b80-b181-0f47cf3150d3"
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source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00001_SB00099/SB 40.xml"
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source_hash: "ba792a4071699ad05ef438a61a728badb065126196ad7baba7be46ea260a5133"
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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 40 (86) — Relating to locations, terms, sessions, and procedures for conducting court proceedings.
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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/SB00040I.HTM)
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## Votes
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- passage — **146–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Bonnen, Greg — primary (person)
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- Calanni — primary (person)
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- Leach — primary (person)
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- Murr — primary (person)
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- Oliverson — primary (person)
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- Zaffirini — primary (person)
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- Lucio — 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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- **2019-02-28** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
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- **2019-02-28** Considered in public hearing
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- **2019-02-28** Testimony taken in committee
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- **2019-02-28** Left pending in committee
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- **2019-03-04** Considered in public hearing
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- **2019-03-11** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2019-03-11** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
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- **2019-03-11** Committee report printed and distributed
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- **2019-03-12** Placed on intent calendar
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- **2019-03-18** Co-author authorized
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- **2019-03-18** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
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- **2019-03-18** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
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- **2019-03-18** Vote recorded in Journal
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- **2019-03-18** Three day rule suspended
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- **2019-03-18** Record vote
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- **2019-03-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2019-03-18** Passed `passage`
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- **2019-03-18** Record vote
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- **2019-03-18** Reported engrossed
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- **2019-03-19** Received from the Senate `introduction`
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- **2019-03-28** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
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- **2019-03-28** Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence `referral-committee`
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- **2019-04-16** Considered in formal meeting
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- **2019-04-16** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
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- **2019-04-18** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
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- **2019-04-22** Committee report distributed
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- **2019-04-22** 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** Passed to 3rd reading
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- **2019-05-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2019-05-21** Passed `passage`
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- **2019-05-21** Record vote
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- **2019-05-21** House passage reported
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- **2019-05-21** Reported enrolled
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- **2019-05-23** 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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- **2019-06-07** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2019-06-07** Effective immediately
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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/0642d478-8973-4b80-b181-0f47cf3150d3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
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