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Bill Relating to service of process on institutions and organizations in certain probate proceedings. Relating to service of process on institutions and organizations in certain probate proceedings. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 87 HB 1297 Texas HB 1297 (87)
bill
PROCESS SERVERS (S0725)
Probate--Guardians & Related Trusts (I0589)
enacted
Creighton
Metcalf
5 48 0 2021-01-22 2021-06-04 openstates ocd-bill/0c582af7-95e3-40a7-8ee7-308abe794679 ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/87R/billhistory/house_bills/HB01200_HB01299/HB 1297.xml 59e1b2fb1ac3a54e3d943e7aa4cd02d22a8f97a05fb70604b5b4ee9ec05cd306 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-tx

Texas HB 1297 (87) — Relating to service of process on institutions and organizations in certain probate proceedings.

Version chain

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

  1. Introduced (filed) — source
  2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
  3. House Committee Report (committee substitute) — source
  4. Senate Committee Report (committee substitute) — source
  5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Sponsors

  • Creighton — primary (person)
  • Metcalf — primary (person)
  • Zaffirini — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2021-01-22 Filed filing
  • 2021-03-04 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2021-03-04 Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence referral-committee
  • 2021-03-17 Considered in public hearing
  • 2021-03-17 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
  • 2021-03-17 Left pending in committee
  • 2021-03-24 Considered in public hearing
  • 2021-03-24 Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent referral-committee
  • 2021-03-24 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage
  • 2021-03-30 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
  • 2021-03-30 Committee report distributed
  • 2021-03-31 Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
  • 2021-04-06 Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
  • 2021-04-09 Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
  • 2021-04-09 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2021-04-09 Passed to engrossment
  • 2021-04-09 Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
  • 2021-04-09 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2021-04-09 Passed passage
  • 2021-04-09 Record vote
  • 2021-04-09 Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
  • 2021-04-09 Reported engrossed
  • 2021-04-12 Received from the House introduction
  • 2021-04-19 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2021-04-19 Referred to Jurisprudence referral-committee
  • 2021-05-13 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2021-05-13 Considered in public hearing
  • 2021-05-13 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2021-05-14 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
  • 2021-05-14 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
  • 2021-05-14 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2021-05-19 Placed on local & uncontested calendar
  • 2021-05-18 Co-sponsor authorized
  • 2021-05-19 Laid before the Senate
  • 2021-05-19 Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
  • 2021-05-19 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2021-05-19 Three day rule suspended
  • 2021-05-19 Record vote
  • 2021-05-19 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2021-05-19 Passed passage
  • 2021-05-19 Record vote
  • 2021-05-19 Senate passage reported
  • 2021-05-20 Reported enrolled
  • 2021-05-23 Signed in the House
  • 2021-05-24 Signed in the Senate
  • 2021-05-24 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
  • 2021-06-04 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2021-06-04 Effective on 9/1/21 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0c582af7-95e3-40a7-8ee7-308abe794679. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).