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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 sale of fireworks before and during the Diwali holiday. Relating to the sale of fireworks before and during the Diwali holiday. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 88 HB 608 Texas HB 608 (88)
bill
County Government--General (I0096)
DIWALI (HL90Y)
Holidays (I0395)
Occupational Regulation--Other Trades & Professions (I0541)
Safety (I0740)
Safety--Fireworks (I0741)
TEXAS A&M FOREST SERVICE (U0213)
enacted
Button
Harris, Caroline
Holland
Huffman
Patterson
Shaheen
5 43 1 2022-11-14 2023-06-10 openstates ocd-bill/dff4ee40-ae7a-4b10-9c88-da49a36feb3b ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/88R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00600_HB00699/HB 608.xml 0bf25d72939db0a76f56ad018518bb79ebfe53bd7149702e8d20229e0e885846 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-tx

Texas HB 608 (88) — Relating to the sale of fireworks before and during the Diwali holiday.

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 — 1398 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Button — primary (person)
  • Harris, Caroline — primary (person)
  • Holland — primary (person)
  • Huffman — primary (person)
  • Patterson — primary (person)
  • Shaheen — primary (person)
  • Bettencourt — cosponsor (person)
  • Bhojani — cosponsor (person)
  • Lopez, Janie — cosponsor (person)
  • Oliverson — cosponsor (person)
  • Sherman, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
  • Zwiener — 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 County Affairs referral-committee
  • 2023-03-15 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-03-15 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
  • 2023-03-15 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
  • 2023-03-23 Considered in Calendars
  • 2023-03-28 Placed on General State Calendar
  • 2023-03-28 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2023-03-28 Passed to engrossment
  • 2023-03-29 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-03-29 Passed passage
  • 2023-03-29 Record vote
  • 2023-03-29 Reason for vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-03-29 Reported engrossed
  • 2023-03-29 Received from the House introduction
  • 2023-03-30 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-03-30 Referred to Local Government referral-committee
  • 2023-05-01 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-05-01 Vote taken in committee
  • 2023-05-03 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-05-03 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
  • 2023-05-03 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2023-05-08 Co-sponsor authorized
  • 2023-05-17 Placed on local & uncontested calendar
  • 2023-05-17 Laid before the Senate receipt
  • 2023-05-17 Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading reading-2
  • 2023-05-17 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-05-17 Three day rule suspended
  • 2023-05-17 Record vote
  • 2023-05-17 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-05-17 Passed passage
  • 2023-05-17 Record vote
  • 2023-05-17 Senate passage reported passage
  • 2023-05-18 Reported enrolled enrolled
  • 2023-05-19 Signed in the House passage
  • 2023-05-21 Signed in the Senate passage
  • 2023-05-22 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/dff4ee40-ae7a-4b10-9c88-da49a36feb3b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).