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type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to judicial training requirements regarding family violence."
description: "Relating to judicial training requirements regarding family violence."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "88"
identifier: "SB 855"
citation: "Texas SB 855 (88)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMINAL APPEALS", "COURT OF (V1605)", "Courts--Judges (I0140)", "Family--Family Violence (I0353)", "STAFF DEVELOPMENT & TRAINING (S0317)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alvarado", "Hull", "Johnson, Julie", "LaMantia", "Leach", "Moody", "Vasut"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 49
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-13"
last_action: "2023-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d147110a-30a7-4b22-a9d5-c7fd5b92e0f3"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/88R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00800_SB00899/SB 855.xml"
source_hash: "14bd433a2298fa66a24c0a5933bc4aa432593e3d605a7b59a5b94635ede1bb19"
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 855 (88) — Relating to judicial training requirements regarding family violence.
## 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/SB00855I.HTM)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB00855E.HTM)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB00855H.HTM)
4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB00855S.HTM)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB00855F.HTM)
## Votes
- passage — **1346** (pass) · lower
- passage — **301** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Alvarado — primary (person)
- Hull — primary (person)
- Johnson, Julie — primary (person)
- LaMantia — primary (person)
- Leach — primary (person)
- Moody — primary (person)
- Vasut — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-13** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing, introduction`
- **2023-02-13** Filed `filing`
- **2023-03-01** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-03-01** Referred to Criminal Justice `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-04** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2023-04-04** Considered in public hearing
- **2023-04-04** Testimony taken in committee
- **2023-04-04** Vote taken in committee
- **2023-04-11** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-11** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2023-04-11** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2023-04-20** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2023-04-20** Laid before the Senate `receipt`
- **2023-04-20** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment `reading-2`
- **2023-04-20** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2023-04-20** Three day rule suspended
- **2023-04-20** Record vote
- **2023-04-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-20** Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Record vote
- **2023-04-20** Reported engrossed
- **2023-04-21** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2023-04-25** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-04-25** Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-03** Considered in public hearing
- **2023-05-03** Committee substitute considered in committee `substitution`
- **2023-05-03** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-08** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
- **2023-05-08** Committee report distributed
- **2023-05-09** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2023-05-10** Laid out in lieu of companion
- **2023-05-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-05-10** Passed to 3rd reading
- **2023-05-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-11** Passed `passage`
- **2023-05-11** Record vote
- **2023-05-11** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2023-05-11** House passage as amended reported `amendment-passage`
- **2023-05-16** House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
- **2023-05-16** Read
- **2023-05-16** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
- **2023-05-16** Record vote
- **2023-05-16** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported
- **2023-05-16** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-05-17** Signed in the Senate `passage`
- **2023-05-17** Signed in the House `passage`
- **2023-05-17** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-29** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-29** 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/d147110a-30a7-4b22-a9d5-c7fd5b92e0f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).