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Bill Relating to the incineration of a United States flag or Texas state flag through the cremation process at the request of any person. Relating to the incineration of a United States flag or Texas state flag through the cremation process at the request of any person. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 88 HB 587 Texas HB 587 (88)
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CREMATORIES & CREMATION (S0553)
FLAGS (S0254)
FUNERAL SERVICE COMMISSION
TEXAS (V0004)
Health--General (I0385)
Military & Veterans (I0535)
enacted
Blanco
Patterson
5 58 6 2022-11-14 2023-06-10 openstates ocd-bill/ac43dbaf-8bd9-4817-a04d-32c02b890706 ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/88R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00500_HB00599/HB 587.xml df503bfb3b5d03b3811ee15438d8dd58b468c88ba85a1410c9f1251787e060fc 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Texas HB 587 (88) — Relating to the incineration of a United States flag or Texas state flag through the cremation process at the request of any person.

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 — 1480 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 00 (pass) · upper
  • passage — 1405 (pass) · lower
  • Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that HB 587 be placed on its third reading and final passage. — 310 (pass) · upper
  • passage — 00 (pass) · upper
  • passage — 1405 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Blanco — primary (person)
  • Patterson — primary (person)
  • West — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2022-11-14 Filed filing
  • 2023-02-23 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-02-23 Referred to Defense & Veterans' Affairs referral-committee
  • 2023-03-09 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-03-09 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
  • 2023-03-09 Left pending in committee
  • 2023-03-16 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-03-16 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-03-20 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2023-03-21 Committee report distributed
  • 2023-03-21 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2023-04-13 Considered in Calendars
  • 2023-04-17 Placed on General State Calendar
  • 2023-04-17 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2023-04-17 Amended amendment-passage
  • 2023-04-17 Passed to engrossment as amended amendment-passage
  • 2023-04-18 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-04-18 Passed passage
  • 2023-04-18 Record vote
  • 2023-04-18 Reported engrossed
  • 2023-04-18 Received from the House introduction
  • 2023-04-19 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-04-19 Referred to Vet Affairs referral-committee
  • 2023-05-09 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2023-05-09 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-05-09 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2023-05-09 Vote taken in committee
  • 2023-05-10 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-05-10 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
  • 2023-05-10 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2023-05-12 Placed on intent calendar
  • 2023-05-15 Co-sponsor authorized
  • 2023-05-15 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
  • 2023-05-15 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2023-05-15 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
  • 2023-05-15 Amended amendment-passage
  • 2023-05-15 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-05-15 Passed to 3rd reading as amended amendment-passage
  • 2023-05-15 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-05-15 Three day rule suspended
  • 2023-05-15 Record vote
  • 2023-05-15 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-05-15 Passed passage
  • 2023-05-15 Record vote
  • 2023-05-15 Senate passage as amended reported amendment-passage
  • 2023-05-16 Senate Amendments distributed
  • 2023-05-16 Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
  • 2023-05-17 House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
  • 2023-05-17 Record vote
  • 2023-05-17 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-05-17 Text of Senate Amendment(s)
  • 2023-05-17 House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported
  • 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 on 9/1/23 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ac43dbaf-8bd9-4817-a04d-32c02b890706. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).