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Bill Relating to procedures in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services. Relating to procedures in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 88 HB 968 Texas HB 968 (88)
bill
FAMILY & PROTECTIVE SERVICES
DEPARTMENT OF (V0461)
Family--Child Protection (I0351)
Family--Parent & Child (I0355)
enacted
Capriglione
Frank
Gates
González, Mary
Kolkhorst
Rose
5 49 2 2022-12-09 2023-06-12 openstates ocd-bill/96fc4d64-91f8-4650-88d2-12499cbbf598 ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/88R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00900_HB00999/HB 968.xml 4804232e60cd55c8d4c637c84957b58847be21f1f1b3e50c6b9e03121d7f0f1d 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-tx

Texas HB 968 (88) — Relating to procedures in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services.

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 968 be placed on its third reading and final passage. — 310 (pass) · upper
  • passage — 1411 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Capriglione — primary (person)
  • Frank — primary (person)
  • Gates — primary (person)
  • González, Mary — primary (person)
  • Kolkhorst — primary (person)
  • Rose — primary (person)
  • Allison — cosponsor (person)
  • Anderson — cosponsor (person)
  • Bell, Cecil — cosponsor (person)
  • Bell, Keith — cosponsor (person)
  • Bhojani — cosponsor (person)
  • Bryant — cosponsor (person)
  • Bucy — cosponsor (person)
  • Bumgarner — cosponsor (person)
  • Cain — cosponsor (person)
  • Campos — cosponsor (person)
  • Clardy — cosponsor (person)
  • Cole — cosponsor (person)
  • Collier — cosponsor (person)
  • Cook — cosponsor (person)
  • Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
  • Dean — cosponsor (person)
  • Dorazio — cosponsor (person)
  • Flores — cosponsor (person)
  • Frazier — cosponsor (person)
  • Garcia — cosponsor (person)
  • Gerdes — cosponsor (person)
  • Gervin-Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
  • González, Jessica — cosponsor (person)
  • Guillen — cosponsor (person)
  • Harris, Caroline — cosponsor (person)
  • Harrison — cosponsor (person)
  • Hayes — cosponsor (person)
  • Howard — cosponsor (person)
  • Hull — cosponsor (person)
  • Isaac — cosponsor (person)
  • Jetton — cosponsor (person)
  • Johnson, Julie — cosponsor (person)
  • Jones, Venton — cosponsor (person)
  • Kitzman — cosponsor (person)
  • Klick — cosponsor (person)
  • Lalani — cosponsor (person)
  • Landgraf — cosponsor (person)
  • Leach — cosponsor (person)
  • Lopez, Ray — cosponsor (person)
  • Lozano — cosponsor (person)
  • Lujan — cosponsor (person)
  • Meza — cosponsor (person)
  • Moody — cosponsor (person)
  • Morales Shaw — cosponsor (person)
  • Morales, Christina — cosponsor (person)
  • Morrison — cosponsor (person)
  • Noble — cosponsor (person)
  • Orr — cosponsor (person)
  • Ortega — cosponsor (person)
  • Patterson — cosponsor (person)
  • Paul — cosponsor (person)
  • Price — cosponsor (person)
  • Raney — cosponsor (person)
  • Raymond — cosponsor (person)
  • Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
  • Rogers — cosponsor (person)
  • Rosenthal — cosponsor (person)
  • Schaefer — cosponsor (person)
  • Slaton — cosponsor (person)
  • Slawson — cosponsor (person)
  • Smith — cosponsor (person)
  • Smithee — cosponsor (person)
  • Swanson — cosponsor (person)
  • Talarico — cosponsor (person)
  • Tepper — cosponsor (person)
  • Thompson, Ed — cosponsor (person)
  • Troxclair — cosponsor (person)
  • Vasut — cosponsor (person)
  • Vo — cosponsor (person)
  • Wilson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2022-12-09 Filed filing
  • 2023-03-02 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-03-02 Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues referral-committee
  • 2023-04-19 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-04-19 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
  • 2023-04-19 Left pending in committee
  • 2023-04-27 Considered in formal meeting
  • 2023-04-27 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-05-03 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2023-05-03 Committee report distributed
  • 2023-05-04 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2023-05-05 Considered in Calendars
  • 2023-05-08 Placed on General State Calendar
  • 2023-05-08 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2023-05-08 Amended amendment-passage
  • 2023-05-08 Passed to engrossment as amended amendment-passage
  • 2023-05-09 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-05-09 Passed passage
  • 2023-05-09 Record vote
  • 2023-05-09 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-05-09 Reported engrossed
  • 2023-05-10 Received from the House introduction
  • 2023-05-11 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-05-11 Referred to Health & Human Services referral-committee
  • 2023-05-16 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2023-05-16 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-05-16 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2023-05-16 Left pending in committee
  • 2023-05-17 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-05-17 Vote taken in committee
  • 2023-05-18 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-05-18 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
  • 2023-05-18 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2023-05-23 Placed on intent calendar
  • 2023-05-23 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
  • 2023-05-23 Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading reading-2
  • 2023-05-23 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-05-23 Three day rule suspended
  • 2023-05-23 Record vote
  • 2023-05-23 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-05-23 Passed passage
  • 2023-05-23 Record vote
  • 2023-05-23 Senate passage reported passage
  • 2023-05-23 Reported enrolled enrolled
  • 2023-05-25 Signed in the House passage
  • 2023-05-26 Signed in the Senate passage
  • 2023-05-26 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
  • 2023-06-12 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2023-06-12 Effective on 9/1/23 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/96fc4d64-91f8-4650-88d2-12499cbbf598. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).