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Bill Relating to the practice of therapeutic optometry. Relating to the practice of therapeutic optometry. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 87 SB 993 Texas SB 993 (87)
bill
OPTOMETRY & OPTOMETRISTS (S9811)
Occupational Regulation--Health Occupations (I0540)
TEXAS OPTOMETRY BOARD (V0305)
THERAPEUTIC OPTOMETRISTS (S0051)
enacted
Canales
Hancock
Klick
5 46 1 2021-03-03 2021-06-14 openstates ocd-bill/c7ae0cd9-917e-4c5c-a3c6-575fead7c3f8 ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/87R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00900_SB00999/SB 993.xml 69292ba649760a115c6c2f30ba4ca20ab3b5196a6f7197e0aa30ef8f9a4c74cf 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-tx

Texas SB 993 (87) — Relating to the practice of therapeutic optometry.

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

  • passage — 1442 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Canales — primary (person)
  • Hancock — primary (person)
  • Klick — primary (person)
  • Anchia — cosponsor (person)
  • Ashby — cosponsor (person)
  • Bell, Cecil — cosponsor (person)
  • Burns — cosponsor (person)
  • Cason — cosponsor (person)
  • Harless — cosponsor (person)
  • Harris — cosponsor (person)
  • Holland — cosponsor (person)
  • Huberty — cosponsor (person)
  • Krause — cosponsor (person)
  • Kuempel — cosponsor (person)
  • Leach — cosponsor (person)
  • Lopez — cosponsor (person)
  • Lucio III — cosponsor (person)
  • Middleton — cosponsor (person)
  • Minjarez — cosponsor (person)
  • Morales Shaw — cosponsor (person)
  • Morales, Christina — cosponsor (person)
  • Noble — cosponsor (person)
  • Parker — cosponsor (person)
  • Patterson — cosponsor (person)
  • Paul — cosponsor (person)
  • Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)
  • Sanford — cosponsor (person)
  • Schofield — cosponsor (person)
  • Slaton — cosponsor (person)
  • Thompson, Ed — cosponsor (person)
  • Tinderholt — cosponsor (person)
  • West — cosponsor (person)
  • White — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2021-03-03 Received by the Secretary of the Senate filing
  • 2021-03-03 Filed filing
  • 2021-03-18 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2021-03-18 Referred to Business & Commerce referral-committee
  • 2021-03-23 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2021-03-23 Considered in public hearing
  • 2021-03-23 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2021-03-23 Left pending in committee
  • 2021-05-04 Considered in public hearing
  • 2021-05-10 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
  • 2021-05-10 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2021-05-12 Placed on intent calendar
  • 2021-05-13 Co-author authorized
  • 2021-05-13 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
  • 2021-05-13 Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
  • 2021-05-13 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2021-05-13 Three day rule suspended
  • 2021-05-13 Record vote
  • 2021-05-13 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2021-05-13 Passed passage
  • 2021-05-13 Record vote
  • 2021-05-13 Remarks ordered printed
  • 2021-05-13 Reported engrossed
  • 2021-05-13 Received from the Senate introduction
  • 2021-05-17 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2021-05-17 Referred to Public Health referral-committee
  • 2021-05-19 Considered in formal meeting
  • 2021-05-19 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage
  • 2021-05-19 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
  • 2021-05-19 Committee report distributed
  • 2021-05-20 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2021-05-20 Considered in Calendars
  • 2021-05-23 Placed on General State Calendar
  • 2021-05-23 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2021-05-23 Passed to 3rd reading
  • 2021-05-24 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2021-05-24 Passed passage
  • 2021-05-24 Record vote
  • 2021-05-24 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2021-05-24 House passage reported
  • 2021-05-24 Reported enrolled
  • 2021-05-26 Signed in the Senate
  • 2021-05-26 Signed in the House
  • 2021-05-26 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
  • 2021-06-14 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2021-06-14 Effective on 9/1/21 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c7ae0cd9-917e-4c5c-a3c6-575fead7c3f8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).