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Bill Relating to prohibiting the suspension of a person's driver's license or extension of the period of a driver's license suspension for certain driving while license invalid convictions; authorizing a fee. Relating to prohibiting the suspension of a person's driver's license or extension of the period of a driver's license suspension for certain driving while license invalid convictions; authorizing a fee. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 88 HB 842 Texas HB 842 (88)
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PUBLIC SAFETY
DEPARTMENT OF (V0251)
Vehicles & Traffic--Driver's Licenses (I0840)
Vehicles & Traffic--Rules of Road (I0860)
enacted
Patterson
Whitmire
5 49 1 2022-12-01 2023-05-19 openstates ocd-bill/ce450c0d-b05c-4254-8e23-669299277110 ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/88R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00800_HB00899/HB 842.xml 19ee2f87257a8a4ea02cbbf49f79726d03d7b7434ab825096c1ec9a8e7b08f15 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Texas HB 842 (88) — Relating to prohibiting the suspension of a person's driver's license or extension of the period of a driver's license suspension for certain driving while license invalid convictions; authorizing a fee.

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 — 1470 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Patterson — primary (person)
  • Whitmire — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2022-12-01 Filed filing
  • 2023-03-01 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-03-01 Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence referral-committee
  • 2023-03-07 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-03-07 Committee substitute considered in committee substitution
  • 2023-03-07 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
  • 2023-03-07 Left pending in committee
  • 2023-03-14 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-03-14 Committee substitute considered in committee substitution
  • 2023-03-14 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-03-27 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2023-03-27 Committee report distributed
  • 2023-03-28 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2023-04-10 Considered in Calendars
  • 2023-04-12 Placed on General State Calendar
  • 2023-04-12 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2023-04-12 Passed to engrossment
  • 2023-04-13 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-04-13 Passed passage
  • 2023-04-13 Record vote
  • 2023-04-13 Reported engrossed
  • 2023-04-17 Received from the House introduction
  • 2023-04-18 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-04-18 Referred to Transportation referral-committee
  • 2023-04-26 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2023-04-26 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-04-26 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2023-04-26 Vote taken in committee
  • 2023-04-26 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-04-26 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
  • 2023-04-26 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2023-05-01 Placed on intent calendar
  • 2023-05-02 Not again placed on intent calendar
  • 2023-05-03 Placed on local & uncontested calendar
  • 2023-05-03 Laid before the Senate receipt
  • 2023-05-03 Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading reading-2
  • 2023-05-03 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-05-03 Three day rule suspended
  • 2023-05-03 Record vote
  • 2023-05-03 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-05-03 Passed passage
  • 2023-05-03 Record vote
  • 2023-05-04 Senate passage reported passage
  • 2023-05-04 Reported enrolled enrolled
  • 2023-05-04 Signed in the House passage
  • 2023-05-08 Signed in the Senate passage
  • 2023-05-08 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
  • 2023-05-19 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2023-05-19 Effective on 9/1/23 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ce450c0d-b05c-4254-8e23-669299277110. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).