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Bill Relating to the right of state hospital patients to designate an essential caregiver for in-person visitation. Relating to the right of state hospital patients to designate an essential caregiver for in-person visitation. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 88 SB 52 Texas SB 52 (88)
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ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES (S0617)
Disaster Preparedness & Relief (I0211)
HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION (V0177)
Health--Other Diseases & Medical Conditions (I0383)
Nursing Homes (I0539)
PATIENT RIGHTS & PROTECTION (S0596)
enacted
Smith
Zaffirini
5 50 2 2022-11-14 2023-06-18 openstates ocd-bill/e65e196d-e680-4c05-a800-33ef33a3d98b ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/88R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00001_SB00099/SB 52.xml 9d63619240275c87823c6420fd1f3f83013b4e98fdedc814ef5a5f729ac912d2 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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us-tx

Texas SB 52 (88) — Relating to the right of state hospital patients to designate an essential caregiver for in-person visitation.

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 CSSB 52 be placed on its third reading and final passage. — 310 (pass) · upper
  • passage — 1421 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Smith — primary (person)
  • Zaffirini — primary (person)
  • Hall — cosponsor (person)
  • Miles — 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 Health & Human Services referral-committee
  • 2023-03-22 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2023-03-22 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-03-22 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2023-03-22 Left pending in committee
  • 2023-03-27 Co-author authorized
  • 2023-03-29 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-03-29 Vote taken in committee
  • 2023-04-03 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-04-03 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2023-04-05 Placed on intent calendar
  • 2023-04-06 Co-author authorized
  • 2023-04-06 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
  • 2023-04-06 Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment reading-2
  • 2023-04-06 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-04-06 Three day rule suspended
  • 2023-04-06 Record vote
  • 2023-04-06 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-04-06 Passed passage
  • 2023-04-06 Record vote
  • 2023-04-06 Reported engrossed
  • 2023-04-06 Received from the Senate introduction
  • 2023-04-17 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-04-17 Referred to Public Health referral-committee
  • 2023-05-15 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-05-15 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
  • 2023-05-15 Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent referral-committee
  • 2023-05-15 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-05-16 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2023-05-16 Committee report distributed
  • 2023-05-16 Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
  • 2023-05-17 Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
  • 2023-05-19 Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
  • 2023-05-19 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2023-05-19 Passed to 3rd reading
  • 2023-05-19 Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-05-19 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-05-19 Passed passage
  • 2023-05-19 Record vote
  • 2023-05-19 Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-05-21 House passage reported passage
  • 2023-05-21 Reported enrolled enrolled
  • 2023-05-22 Signed in the Senate passage
  • 2023-05-22 Signed in the House passage
  • 2023-05-23 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; origin ocd-bill/e65e196d-e680-4c05-a800-33ef33a3d98b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).