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type title description jurisdiction legislature session identifier citation classification subjects status primary_sponsors version_count action_count vote_count first_action last_action source source_identifier source_url source_hash vintage source_snapshot retrieved_at confidence tags
Bill Relating to the creation of a criminal offense for fabricating a deceptive video with intent to influence the outcome of an election. Relating to the creation of a criminal offense for fabricating a deceptive video with intent to influence the outcome of an election. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 86 SB 751 Texas SB 751 (86)
bill
Crimes--Against Persons--General (I0170)
Crimes--Miscellaneous (I0200)
Elections--Candidates (I0280)
Elections--General (I0310)
VIDEOTAPE & FILM (S2361)
enacted
Hughes
Meyer
1 56 0 2019-02-11 2019-06-14 openstates ocd-bill/570e939c-bfae-4f87-995d-965c27986b71 ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00700_SB00799/SB 751.xml 2b2a0dc061e6dcca9c2487c28d953f4dbb3f9fc0393c3a445666877045e1fd13 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-tx

Texas SB 751 (86) — Relating to the creation of a criminal offense for fabricating a deceptive video with intent to influence the outcome of an election.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

  1. Introduced (filed) — source

Sponsors

  • Hughes — primary (person)
  • Meyer — primary (person)
  • West — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

  • 2019-02-11 Received by the Secretary of the Senate filing
  • 2019-02-11 Filed filing
  • 2019-03-01 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2019-03-01 Referred to State Affairs referral-committee
  • 2019-04-01 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2019-04-01 Considered in public hearing
  • 2019-04-01 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2019-04-01 Left pending in committee
  • 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
  • 2019-04-16 Placed on intent calendar
  • 2019-04-17 Co-author authorized
  • 2019-04-17 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
  • 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
  • 2019-04-29 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2019-04-29 Referred to Elections referral-committee
  • 2019-05-06 Considered in public hearing
  • 2019-05-06 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
  • 2019-05-06 Left pending in committee
  • 2019-05-17 Considered in formal meeting
  • 2019-05-17 Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent referral-committee
  • 2019-05-17 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
  • 2019-05-18 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
  • 2019-05-19 Committee report distributed
  • 2019-05-19 Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
  • 2019-05-20 Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
  • 2019-05-22 Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
  • 2019-05-22 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2019-05-22 Passed to 3rd reading
  • 2019-05-22 Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
  • 2019-05-22 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2019-05-22 Passed passage
  • 2019-05-22 Record vote
  • 2019-05-22 Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
  • 2019-05-22 House passage as amended reported
  • 2019-05-25 House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
  • 2019-05-25 Read
  • 2019-05-25 Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
  • 2019-05-25 Record vote
  • 2019-05-25 Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported
  • 2019-05-25 Reported enrolled
  • 2019-05-26 Signed in the Senate
  • 2019-05-26 Signed in the House
  • 2019-05-26 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
  • 2019-06-14 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2019-06-14 Effective on 9/1/19 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/570e939c-bfae-4f87-995d-965c27986b71. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).