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Bill Relating to eligibility requirements for a certified public accountant certificate and to take the uniform CPA examination. Relating to eligibility requirements for a certified public accountant certificate and to take the uniform CPA examination. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 88 SB 159 Texas SB 159 (88)
bill
ACCOUNTING & ACCOUNTANTS (S4321)
Occupational Regulation--Other Trades & Professions (I0541)
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANCY
TEXAS STATE BOARD OF (V0994)
enacted
Bell, Keith
Button
Cook
Perry
5 53 4 2022-11-14 2023-05-13 openstates ocd-bill/f2d78f8a-c918-43a1-8f75-c0d6f5d7689b ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/88R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00100_SB00199/SB 159.xml 7cdd026e0811471737d8292b4d4b29630bcff211e9f396229ba789d75dd38166 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-tx

Texas SB 159 (88) — Relating to eligibility requirements for a certified public accountant certificate and to take the uniform CPA examination.

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 — 310 (pass) · upper
  • passage — 1400 (pass) · lower
  • Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that CSSB 159 be placed on its third reading and final passage. — 310 (pass) · upper
  • passage — 1450 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Bell, Keith — primary (person)
  • Button — primary (person)
  • Cook — primary (person)
  • Perry — primary (person)
  • Jetton — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2022-11-14 Received by the Secretary of the Senate filing, introduction
  • 2022-11-14 Filed filing
  • 2023-02-15 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-02-15 Referred to Business & Commerce referral-committee
  • 2023-03-07 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2023-03-07 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-03-07 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2023-03-07 Left pending in committee
  • 2023-03-14 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-03-14 Vote taken in committee
  • 2023-03-16 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-03-16 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
  • 2023-03-16 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2023-03-20 Placed on intent calendar
  • 2023-03-21 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
  • 2023-03-21 Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment reading-2
  • 2023-03-21 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-03-21 Three day rule suspended
  • 2023-03-21 Record vote
  • 2023-03-21 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-03-21 Passed passage
  • 2023-03-21 Record vote
  • 2023-03-21 Reported engrossed
  • 2023-03-22 Received from the Senate introduction
  • 2023-04-03 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-04-03 Referred to Licensing & Administrative Procedures referral-committee
  • 2023-04-12 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-04-12 Committee substitute considered in committee substitution
  • 2023-04-12 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-04-19 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2023-04-19 Committee report distributed
  • 2023-04-20 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2023-04-20 Laid out in lieu of companion
  • 2023-04-20 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2023-04-20 Passed to 3rd reading
  • 2023-04-20 Record vote
  • 2023-04-20 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-04-21 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-04-21 Passed passage
  • 2023-04-21 Record vote
  • 2023-04-21 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-04-24 House passage as amended reported amendment-passage
  • 2023-05-01 House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
  • 2023-05-01 Read
  • 2023-05-01 Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
  • 2023-05-01 Record vote
  • 2023-05-01 Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported
  • 2023-05-01 Reported enrolled enrolled
  • 2023-05-02 Signed in the Senate passage
  • 2023-05-02 Signed in the House passage
  • 2023-05-02 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
  • 2023-05-13 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2023-05-13 Effective on 9/1/23 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f2d78f8a-c918-43a1-8f75-c0d6f5d7689b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).