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| Bill |
Relating to including cuttings as a form of propagation for citrus budwood and citrus nursery stock certification programs. |
Relating to including cuttings as a form of propagation for citrus budwood and citrus nursery stock certification programs. |
us/states/tx |
Texas Legislature |
86 |
SB 979 |
Texas SB 979 (86) |
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enacted |
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1 |
42 |
1 |
2019-02-21 |
2019-05-25 |
openstates |
ocd-bill/8bd43db8-ba54-47ea-85a9-7a75fba8abfc |
ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00900_SB00999/SB 979.xml |
6ee7d31a4630aa8f1f522cc916d3527020852e40121d10398f9ec1e4e94718d2 |
2026-07-01 |
https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump |
2026-07-06 |
reported |
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Texas SB 979 (86) — Relating to including cuttings as a form of propagation for citrus budwood and citrus nursery stock certification programs.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
Votes
- passage — 139–0 (pass) · lower
- Hughes — primary (person)
- Kacal — primary (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 Water & Rural 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
- 2019-04-04 Reported favorably w/o amendments
committee-passage-favorable
- 2019-04-04 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- 2019-04-04 Committee report printed and distributed
- 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 Agriculture & Livestock
referral-committee
- 2019-04-17 Considered in formal meeting
- 2019-04-17 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)
committee-passage
- 2019-04-22 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- 2019-04-22 Committee report distributed
- 2019-04-22 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 reported
- 2019-05-14 Reported enrolled
- 2019-05-15 Signed in the Senate
- 2019-05-15 Signed in the House
- 2019-05-15 Sent to the Governor
executive-receipt
- 2019-05-25 Signed by the Governor
executive-signature
- 2019-05-25 Effective immediately
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8bd43db8-ba54-47ea-85a9-7a75fba8abfc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
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