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| Bill | Relating to certain procedures applicable to meetings under the open meetings law and the disclosure of public information under the public information law in the event of an emergency, urgent public necessity, or catastrophic event. | Relating to certain procedures applicable to meetings under the open meetings law and the disclosure of public information under the public information law in the event of an emergency, urgent public necessity, or catastrophic event. | us/states/tx | Texas Legislature | 86 | SB 494 | Texas SB 494 (86) |
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1 | 47 | 1 | 2019-01-28 | 2019-06-05 | openstates | ocd-bill/55018644-193e-453e-bffe-d093e1171d14 | ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00400_SB00499/SB 494.xml | 1d08be25a5d3aa0b2cd304fd8a85c897874b14fd46fdb124790133c90162b6f2 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Texas SB 494 (86) — Relating to certain procedures applicable to meetings under the open meetings law and the disclosure of public information under the public information law in the event of an emergency, urgent public necessity, or catastrophic event.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
Votes
- passage — 144–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Huffman — primary (person)
- Walle — primary (person)
- Zaffirini — 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 Business & Commerce
referral-committee - 2019-04-02 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- 2019-04-02 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- 2019-04-02 Considered in public hearing
- 2019-04-02 Testimony taken in committee
- 2019-04-02 Left pending in committee
- 2019-04-04 Considered in public hearing
- 2019-04-09 Reported favorably as substituted
committee-passage-favorable - 2019-04-09 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- 2019-04-09 Committee report printed and distributed
- 2019-04-17 Co-author authorized
- 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 State Affairs
referral-committee - 2019-04-25 Scheduled for formal meeting on . . .
- 2019-04-25 Considered in formal meeting
- 2019-04-25 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)
committee-passage - 2019-04-30 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- 2019-04-30 Committee report distributed
- 2019-05-01 Committee report sent to Calendars
- 2019-05-14 Considered in Calendars
- 2019-05-16 Placed on General State Calendar
- 2019-05-16 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2019-05-16 Passed to 3rd reading
- 2019-05-17 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2019-05-17 Passed
passage - 2019-05-17 Record vote
- 2019-05-17 House passage reported
- 2019-05-17 Reported enrolled
- 2019-05-20 Signed in the Senate
- 2019-05-21 Signed in the House
- 2019-05-21 Sent to the Governor
executive-receipt - 2019-06-05 Signed by the Governor
executive-signature - 2019-06-05 Effective on 9/1/19
became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/55018644-193e-453e-bffe-d093e1171d14. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).