republic-os/legislation/us/states/tx/88/hb-2499.md

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Bill	Relating to designating June 28 as Special Forces Day.	Relating to designating June 28 as Special Forces Day.	us/states/tx	Texas Legislature	88	HB 2499	Texas HB 2499 (88)	bill	Holidays (I0395) Military & Veterans (I0535) SPECIAL FORCES DAY (HF61J)	enacted	Bell, Cecil Creighton	5	45	1	2023-02-17	2023-06-10	openstates	ocd-bill/511c1f8e-718e-4cae-9fbe-e6bc94a69748	ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/88R/billhistory/house_bills/HB02400_HB02499/HB 2499.xml	56e92635bf400a93c844a31fc6ca31f929d3988f387108deb722ad548cd6ba7f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-tx

Texas HB 2499 (88) — Relating to designating June 28 as Special Forces Day.

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

• Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that HB 2499 be placed on its third reading and final passage. — 31–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bell, Cecil — primary (person)
• Creighton — primary (person)
• Parker — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-17 Filed filing
• 2023-03-13 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2023-03-13 Referred to Defense & Veterans' Affairs referral-committee
• 2023-04-20 Considered in public hearing
• 2023-04-20 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
• 2023-04-20 Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent referral-committee
• 2023-04-20 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-24 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
• 2023-04-24 Committee report distributed
• 2023-04-25 Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
• 2023-04-28 Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
• 2023-05-02 Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
• 2023-05-02 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2023-05-02 Passed to engrossment
• 2023-05-02 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2023-05-02 Passed passage
• 2023-05-02 Record vote
• 2023-05-02 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2023-05-02 Reported engrossed
• 2023-05-03 Received from the House introduction
• 2023-05-05 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2023-05-05 Referred to Vet Affairs referral-committee
• 2023-05-16 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
• 2023-05-16 Considered in public hearing
• 2023-05-16 Vote taken in committee
• 2023-05-16 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-16 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
• 2023-05-16 Committee report printed and distributed
• 2023-05-18 Co-sponsor authorized
• 2023-05-18 Placed on intent calendar
• 2023-05-18 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
• 2023-05-18 Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading reading-2
• 2023-05-18 Vote recorded in Journal
• 2023-05-18 Three day rule suspended
• 2023-05-18 Record vote
• 2023-05-18 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2023-05-18 Passed passage
• 2023-05-18 Record vote
• 2023-05-19 Senate passage reported passage
• 2023-05-19 Reported enrolled enrolled
• 2023-05-22 Signed in the House passage
• 2023-05-23 Signed in the Senate passage
• 2023-05-24 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-06-10 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2023-06-10 Effective immediately became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/511c1f8e-718e-4cae-9fbe-e6bc94a69748. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).