republic-os/legislation/us/states/tx/87/hb-362.md

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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 authority of a county to require electronic bids or proposals for competitive bidding.	Relating to the authority of a county to require electronic bids or proposals for competitive bidding.	us/states/tx	Texas Legislature	87	HB 362	Texas HB 362 (87)	bill	COMPETITIVE BIDDING (S0267) County Government--General (I0096) EMAIL & ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS (S0321) Electronic Information Systems (I0311) INTERNET (S0130)	enacted	Sherman, Sr. West	5	48	0	2020-11-09	2021-05-15	openstates	ocd-bill/af3be728-56e6-468b-902c-6a82adaca874	ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/87R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00300_HB00399/HB 362.xml	8c3ba0257a0a753a9448793aff86a7f2869114c1888c866c5dceee9e342c315d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-tx

Texas HB 362 (87) — Relating to the authority of a county to require electronic bids or proposals for competitive bidding.

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

• Sherman, Sr. — primary (person)
• West — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-11-09 Filed filing
• 2021-02-25 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2021-02-25 Referred to County Affairs referral-committee
• 2021-03-18 Considered in public hearing
• 2021-03-18 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
• 2021-03-18 Left pending in committee
• 2021-03-23 Considered in formal meeting
• 2021-03-23 Committee substitute considered in committee
• 2021-03-23 Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent referral-committee
• 2021-03-23 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-26 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
• 2021-03-29 Committee report distributed
• 2021-03-29 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
• 2021-04-13 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2021-04-13 Referred to Local Government referral-committee
• 2021-04-19 Considered in public hearing
• 2021-04-21 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-21 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
• 2021-04-21 Committee report printed and distributed
• 2021-04-26 Placed on intent calendar
• 2021-04-27 Not again placed on intent calendar
• 2021-04-29 Placed on local & uncontested calendar
• 2021-04-29 Laid before the Senate
• 2021-04-29 Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
• 2021-04-29 Vote recorded in Journal
• 2021-04-29 Three day rule suspended
• 2021-04-29 Record vote
• 2021-04-29 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2021-04-29 Passed passage
• 2021-04-29 Record vote
• 2021-04-29 Senate passage reported
• 2021-04-30 Reported enrolled
• 2021-05-03 Signed in the House
• 2021-05-03 Signed in the Senate
• 2021-05-04 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-15 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2021-05-15 Effective immediately became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/af3be728-56e6-468b-902c-6a82adaca874. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).