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Bill Relating to the public information law. Relating to the public information law. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 86 SB 944 Texas SB 944 (86)
bill
City Government--Employees/Officers (I0061)
County Government--Employees/Officers (I0095)
Open Records (I0548)
State Employees (I0626)
State Officers (I0761)
EMAIL & ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS (S0321)
INTERNET (S0130)
RECORDS MANAGEMENT (S0205)
ATTORNEY GENERAL (V2811)
enacted
Capriglione
Watson
1 80 4 2019-02-21 2019-06-14 openstates ocd-bill/169d2e2d-3635-4640-9673-a2491c91b759 ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00900_SB00999/SB 944.xml 5bc2448b472cec6fa9180669b8e237f7a49a8ae671af6a09d36e330eb1b71286 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-tx

Texas SB 944 (86) — Relating to the public information law.

Version chain

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

  1. Introduced (filed) — source

Votes

  • other — 1450 (fail) · upper
  • passage — 1450 (pass) · lower
  • other — 00 (fail) · upper
  • other — 00 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

  • Capriglione — primary (person)
  • Watson — primary (person)
  • Hinojosa — cosponsor (person)
  • Zaffirini — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2019-02-21 Received by the Secretary of the Senate filing
  • 2019-02-21 Filed filing
  • 2019-03-01 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2019-03-01 Referred to Business & Commerce referral-committee
  • 2019-03-26 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2019-03-26 Considered in public hearing
  • 2019-03-26 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2019-03-26 Left pending in committee
  • 2019-04-02 Considered in public hearing
  • 2019-04-08 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
  • 2019-04-08 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
  • 2019-04-08 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2019-04-09 Co-author authorized
  • 2019-04-09 Placed on intent calendar
  • 2019-04-10 Co-author authorized
  • 2019-04-10 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
  • 2019-04-10 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2019-04-10 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2019-04-10 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
  • 2019-04-10 Amended amendment-passage
  • 2019-04-10 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2019-04-10 Passed to engrossment as amended
  • 2019-04-10 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2019-04-10 Three day rule suspended
  • 2019-04-10 Record vote
  • 2019-04-10 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2019-04-10 Passed passage
  • 2019-04-10 Record vote
  • 2019-04-10 Reported engrossed
  • 2019-04-11 Received from the Senate introduction
  • 2019-04-12 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2019-04-12 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
  • 2019-05-10 Considered in Calendars
  • 2019-05-14 Placed on General State Calendar
  • 2019-05-14 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2019-05-14 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
  • 2019-05-14 Motion to table fails
  • 2019-05-14 Record vote
  • 2019-05-14 Amended amendment-passage
  • 2019-05-14 Amendment tabled
  • 2019-05-14 Amended amendment-passage
  • 2019-05-14 Passed to 3rd reading as amended
  • 2019-05-15 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2019-05-15 Passed passage
  • 2019-05-15 Record vote
  • 2019-05-15 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2019-05-15 House passage as amended reported
  • 2019-05-20 House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
  • 2019-05-20 Read
  • 2019-05-20 Senate refuses to concur
  • 2019-05-20 Senate requests conference committee
  • 2019-05-20 Senate appoints conferees
  • 2019-05-20 Senate refuses to concur-reported
  • 2019-05-20 Senate requests conference committee-reported
  • 2019-05-20 Senate appoints conferees-reported
  • 2019-05-22 House grants request for conference committee
  • 2019-05-22 House appoints conferees
  • 2019-05-22 House grants request for conf comm-reported
  • 2019-05-22 House appoints conferees-reported
  • 2019-05-25 Conference committee report filed
  • 2019-05-25 Conf. Comm. Report distributed
  • 2019-05-26 Senate adopts conference committee report
  • 2019-05-26 Record vote
  • 2019-05-26 Senate adopts conf. comm. report-reported
  • 2019-05-26 House adopts conference committee report
  • 2019-05-26 Record vote
  • 2019-05-26 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2019-05-26 House adopts conf. comm. report-reported
  • 2019-05-26 Reported enrolled
  • 2019-05-27 Signed in the Senate
  • 2019-05-27 Signed in the House
  • 2019-05-28 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/169d2e2d-3635-4640-9673-a2491c91b759. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).