republic-os/legislation/us/states/tx/87/hb-3597.md

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Bill	Relating to policies, procedures, and measures for school safety in public schools.	Relating to policies, procedures, and measures for school safety in public schools.	us/states/tx	Texas Legislature	87	HB 3597	Texas HB 3597 (87)	bill	CRIMINAL RECORDS (S0008) EDUCATION COMMISSIONER OF (V9954) Education--Primary & Secondary--Finance (I0250) Education--Primary & Secondary--Other School Personnel (I0246) Education--School Districts (I0220) Law Enforcement (I0510) Minors--Health & Safety (I0533) SCHOOL SAFETY CENTER TEXAS (V0224) Safety (I0740) TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY (U0215) Vehicles & Traffic--General (I0865)	enacted	Metcalf Paxton	5	55	2	2021-03-10	2021-06-18	openstates	ocd-bill/b56b397c-f2a0-4e6c-a7dd-c23f0c3c7f7e	ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/87R/billhistory/house_bills/HB03500_HB03599/HB 3597.xml	59b6c24c0933c7cf26895d33a9ff2f7b6621a5811f8303afdfb7127a251d436f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-tx

Texas HB 3597 (87) — Relating to policies, procedures, and measures for school safety in public schools.

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

Votes

• other — 139–9 (fail) · upper
• passage — 139–9 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Metcalf — primary (person)
• Paxton — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-10 Filed filing
• 2021-03-22 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2021-03-22 Referred to Public Education referral-committee
• 2021-04-06 Considered in public hearing
• 2021-04-06 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
• 2021-04-06 Left pending in committee
• 2021-04-15 Considered in formal meeting
• 2021-04-15 Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent referral-committee
• 2021-04-15 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage
• 2021-04-28 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
• 2021-04-28 Committee report distributed
• 2021-04-29 Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
• 2021-05-04 Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
• 2021-05-08 Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
• 2021-05-08 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2021-05-08 Passed to engrossment
• 2021-05-08 Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
• 2021-05-08 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2021-05-08 Passed passage
• 2021-05-08 Record vote
• 2021-05-08 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2021-05-08 Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
• 2021-05-08 Reported engrossed
• 2021-05-10 Received from the House introduction
• 2021-05-10 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2021-05-10 Referred to Education referral-committee
• 2021-05-21 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
• 2021-05-21 Considered in public hearing
• 2021-05-21 Left pending in committee
• 2021-05-22 Considered in public hearing
• 2021-05-24 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-24 Committee report printed and distributed
• 2021-05-25 Placed on intent calendar
• 2021-05-25 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
• 2021-05-25 Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
• 2021-05-25 Vote recorded in Journal
• 2021-05-25 Three day rule suspended
• 2021-05-25 Record vote
• 2021-05-25 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2021-05-25 Passed passage
• 2021-05-25 Record vote
• 2021-05-27 Senate passage as amended reported
• 2021-05-27 Senate Amendments distributed
• 2021-05-27 Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
• 2021-05-28 House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
• 2021-05-28 Record vote
• 2021-05-28 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2021-05-28 Text of Senate Amendment(s)
• 2021-05-28 House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported
• 2021-05-30 Reported enrolled
• 2021-05-31 Signed in the House
• 2021-05-31 Signed in the Senate
• 2021-06-01 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-06-18 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2021-06-18 Effective immediately became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b56b397c-f2a0-4e6c-a7dd-c23f0c3c7f7e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).