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type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to an interagency reportable conduct search engine, standards for a person's removal from the employee misconduct registry and eligibility for certification as certain Texas Juvenile Justice Department officers and employees, and the use of certain information by certain state agencies to conduct background checks."
description: "Relating to an interagency reportable conduct search engine, standards for a person's removal from the employee misconduct registry and eligibility for certification as certain Texas Juvenile Justice Department officers and employees, and the use of certain information by certain state agencies to conduct background checks."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "88"
identifier: "SB 1849"
citation: "Texas SB 1849 (88)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION AGENCY", "TEXAS (V9941)", "EDUCATION", "COMMISSIONER OF (V9954)", "Education--Primary & Secondary--General (I0230)", "Electronic Information Systems (I0311)", "FAMILY & PROTECTIVE SERVICES", "DEPARTMENT OF (V0461)", "Family--Child Protection (I0351)", "HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION (V0177)", "INFORMATION RESOURCES", "DEPARTMENT OF (V9827)", "INTERAGENCY COORDINATION ON REPORTABLE CONDUCT", "OFFICE OF (VY2S0)", "JUVENILE JUSTICE BOARD", "TEXAS (V1013)", "JUVENILE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT", "TEXAS (V0846)", "Labor--General (I0500)", "Minors--Health & Safety (I0533)", "State Agencies", "Boards & Commissions (I0749)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kolkhorst", "Noble"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 58
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-03-08"
last_action: "2023-06-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29b8755c-627f-42e4-bb99-31231c364d45"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/88R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB01800_SB01899/SB 1849.xml"
source_hash: "6eefd43989dff7f4ac8a6312e2098d28871ece3fa23cdac7253a2cf088aaccfa"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tx"]
---
# Texas SB 1849 (88) — Relating to an interagency reportable conduct search engine, standards for a person's removal from the employee misconduct registry and eligibility for certification as certain Texas Juvenile Justice Department officers and employees, and the use of certain information by certain state agencies to conduct background checks.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB01849I.HTM)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB01849E.HTM)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB01849H.HTM)
4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB01849S.HTM)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB01849F.HTM)
## Votes
- passage — **310** (pass) · upper
- passage — **1430** (pass) · lower
- passage — **00** (pass) · upper
- passage — **00** (pass) · upper
- Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that CSSB 1849 be placed on its third reading and final passage. — **310** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Kolkhorst — primary (person)
- Noble — primary (person)
- Bettencourt — cosponsor (person)
- Blanco — cosponsor (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Miles — cosponsor (person)
- Paxton — cosponsor (person)
- Zaffirini — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-03-08** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing, introduction`
- **2023-03-08** Filed `filing`
- **2023-03-20** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-03-20** Referred to Health & Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-29** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2023-03-29** Considered in public hearing
- **2023-03-29** Testimony taken in committee
- **2023-03-29** Vote taken in committee
- **2023-04-04** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-04** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2023-04-05** Co-author authorized
- **2023-04-06** Co-author authorized
- **2023-04-06** Placed on intent calendar
- **2023-04-11** Co-author authorized
- **2023-04-11** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- **2023-04-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-11** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2023-04-11** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2023-04-11** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2023-04-11** Passed to engrossment as amended `amendment-passage`
- **2023-04-11** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2023-04-11** Three day rule suspended
- **2023-04-11** Record vote
- **2023-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-11** Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-11** Record vote
- **2023-04-11** Reported engrossed
- **2023-04-12** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2023-04-14** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-04-14** Referred to Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-25** Considered in public hearing
- **2023-04-25** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2023-04-25** Left pending in committee
- **2023-05-01** Considered in formal meeting
- **2023-05-01** Committee substitute considered in committee `substitution`
- **2023-05-01** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-09** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
- **2023-05-09** Committee report distributed
- **2023-05-10** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2023-05-12** Considered in Calendars
- **2023-05-16** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2023-05-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-05-16** Passed to 3rd reading
- **2023-05-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-17** Passed `passage`
- **2023-05-17** Record vote
- **2023-05-17** House passage as amended reported `amendment-passage`
- **2023-05-19** House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
- **2023-05-19** Read
- **2023-05-19** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
- **2023-05-19** Record vote
- **2023-05-19** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported
- **2023-05-19** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-05-21** Signed in the Senate `passage`
- **2023-05-22** Signed in the House `passage`
- **2023-05-22** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-18** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-18** Effective on 9/1/23 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/29b8755c-627f-42e4-bb99-31231c364d45`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).