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type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the consolidation and allocation of state civil court costs; increasing certain civil court costs; authorizing fees."
description: "Relating to the consolidation and allocation of state civil court costs; increasing certain civil court costs; authorizing fees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "87"
identifier: "SB 41"
citation: "Texas SB 41 (87)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS (V2608)", "Courts--Administration (I0130)", "Courts--Appellate (I0125)", "Courts--County & Statutory (I0115)", "Courts--District (I0120)", "Courts--General (I0160)", "Courts--Judges (I0140)", "Courts--Justice (I0110)", "Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--Local (I0361)", "Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--State (I0362)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Leach", "Zaffirini"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 63
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-11-09"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fbc38f93-2bea-44e0-8a4c-7a1a15f4d81f"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/87R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00001_SB00099/SB 41.xml"
source_hash: "5dcd071ae58bd9a0317a5ea06582426987b8acad8df48c81b1d929b7d6e905ee"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tx"]
---
# Texas SB 41 (87) — Relating to the consolidation and allocation of state civil court costs; increasing certain civil court costs; authorizing fees.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB00041I.HTM)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB00041E.HTM)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB00041H.HTM)
4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB00041S.HTM)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB00041F.HTM)
## Votes
- other — **00** (fail) · upper
- other — **00** (fail) · upper
## Sponsors
- Leach — primary (person)
- Zaffirini — primary (person)
- Hinojosa — cosponsor (person)
- Huffman — cosponsor (person)
- Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-11-09** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
- **2020-11-09** Filed `filing`
- **2021-03-03** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-03-03** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-08** Rereferred to committee
- **2021-04-08** Referred to Jurisprudence `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-15** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2021-04-15** Considered in public hearing
- **2021-04-15** Left pending in committee
- **2021-04-22** Considered in public hearing
- **2021-04-28** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-28** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2021-05-03** Placed on intent calendar
- **2021-05-05** Co-author authorized
- **2021-05-05** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- **2021-05-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-05-05** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2021-05-05** Amendment to amendment offered
- **2021-05-05** Amendment amended `amendment-amendment`
- **2021-05-05** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2021-05-05** Amendment adopted as amended
- **2021-05-05** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2021-05-05** Passed to engrossment as amended
- **2021-05-05** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2021-05-05** Three day rule suspended
- **2021-05-05** Record vote
- **2021-05-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-05-05** Passed `passage`
- **2021-05-05** Record vote
- **2021-05-05** Reported engrossed
- **2021-05-06** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2021-05-07** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-05-07** Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-19** Considered in public hearing
- **2021-05-19** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2021-05-19** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2021-05-19** Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-19** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-22** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2021-05-22** Committee report distributed
- **2021-05-23** Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
- **2021-05-23** Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
- **2021-05-26** Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
- **2021-05-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-05-26** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2021-05-26** Passed to 3rd reading as amended
- **2021-05-26** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
- **2021-05-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-05-26** Passed `passage`
- **2021-05-26** Record vote
- **2021-05-26** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
- **2021-05-27** House passage as amended reported
- **2021-05-29** House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
- **2021-05-29** Read
- **2021-05-29** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
- **2021-05-29** Record vote
- **2021-05-29** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported
- **2021-05-31** 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`
- **2021-06-14** Filed without the Governor's signature `became-law`
- **2021-06-14** Effective on 1/1/22 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fbc38f93-2bea-44e0-8a4c-7a1a15f4d81f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).