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type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the inclusion in the definition of a medical and dental unit of the Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin and the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and the participation of those schools in certain programs and funding."
description: "Relating to the inclusion in the definition of a medical and dental unit of the Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin and the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and the participation of those schools in certain programs and funding."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "SB 479"
citation: "Texas SB 479 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education--Higher--Health Institutions (I0237)", "DELL MEDICAL SCHOOL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (U0239)", "SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT RIO GRANDE VALLEY (U0240)", "JOINT ADMISSION MEDICAL PROGRAM COUNCIL (V0246)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Longoria", "Watson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 50
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-01-28"
last_action: "2019-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d495af61-4227-443a-b7ab-654e48f36a95"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00400_SB00499/SB 479.xml"
source_hash: "032814bc23b32198c442b1eb1a41316df96f19dbb0bf38599477e9b0ad688817"
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 479 (86) — Relating to the inclusion in the definition of a medical and dental unit of the Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin and the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and the participation of those schools in certain programs and funding.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/86R/billtext/html/SB00479I.HTM)
## Votes
- passage — **1353** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Longoria — primary (person)
- Watson — primary (person)
- Hinojosa — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-28** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
- **2019-01-28** Filed `filing`
- **2019-02-14** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-14** Referred to Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** Co-author authorized
- **2019-03-20** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-03-20** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-03-20** Testimony taken in committee
- **2019-03-25** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-25** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-03-25** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-03-27** Co-author authorized
- **2019-04-11** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-04-11** Laid before the Senate
- **2019-04-11** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
- **2019-04-11** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-04-11** Three day rule suspended
- **2019-04-11** Record vote
- **2019-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-11** Passed `passage`
- **2019-04-11** Record vote
- **2019-04-11** Reported engrossed
- **2019-04-11** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2019-04-12** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-04-12** Referred to Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-18** Considered in formal meeting
- **2019-04-18** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2019-04-18** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-25** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-04-25** Committee report distributed
- **2019-04-26** 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 as amended reported
- **2019-05-23** House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
- **2019-05-23** Read
- **2019-05-23** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
- **2019-05-23** Record vote
- **2019-05-23** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported
- **2019-05-23** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-25** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-25** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-25** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-07** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-07** Effective immediately
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d495af61-4227-443a-b7ab-654e48f36a95`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).