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| Bill | Relating to a restriction on the acceptance of political contributions and the making of certain political expenditures by a member of the legislature and certain political committees during certain periods in which a member is absent from a legislative session; authorizing a civil penalty. | Relating to a restriction on the acceptance of political contributions and the making of certain political expenditures by a member of the legislature and certain political committees during certain periods in which a member is absent from a legislative session; authorizing a civil penalty. | us/states/tx | Texas Legislature | 892 | HB 18 | Texas HB 18 (892) |
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Texas HB 18 (892) — Relating to a restriction on the acceptance of political contributions and the making of certain political expenditures by a member of the legislature and certain political committees during certain periods in which a member is absent from a legislative session; authorizing a civil penalty.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
- House Committee Report (committee substitute) — source
- Senate Committee Report (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- passage — 86–46 (pass) · lower
- passage — 86–46 (pass) · lower
- passage — 18–8 (pass) · upper
- other — 44–85 (fail) · lower
- passage — 18–9 (pass) · upper
- passage — 18–8 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Gerdes — primary (person)
- Hinojosa, Adam — primary (person)
- Shaheen — primary (person)
- Swanson — primary (person)
- Bell, Keith — cosponsor (person)
- Bonnen — cosponsor (person)
- Buckley — cosponsor (person)
- Button — cosponsor (person)
- Capriglione — cosponsor (person)
- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hefner — cosponsor (person)
- Isaac — cosponsor (person)
- King — cosponsor (person)
- LaHood — cosponsor (person)
- Lopez, Janie — cosponsor (person)
- Luther — cosponsor (person)
- Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Oliverson — cosponsor (person)
- Orr — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Paul — cosponsor (person)
- Pierson — cosponsor (person)
- Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Spiller — cosponsor (person)
- Vasut — cosponsor (person)
- Wharton — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-08-21 Filed
filing - 2025-08-21 Read first time
introduction, reading-1 - 2025-08-21 Referred to Elections
referral-committee - 2025-08-25 Considered in public hearing
- 2025-08-25 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- 2025-08-25 Left pending in committee
- 2025-08-28 Considered in formal meeting
- 2025-08-28 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2025-08-28 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
filing - 2025-08-28 Committee report distributed
- 2025-08-28 Committee report sent to Calendars
- 2025-08-28 Considered in Calendars
- 2025-09-02 Placed on General State Calendar
- 2025-09-02 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2025-09-02 Amendment(s) offered
amendment-introduction - 2025-09-02 Amendment to amendment fails of adoption
amendment-failure - 2025-09-02 Record vote
- 2025-09-02 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- 2025-09-02 Amendment to amendment fails of adoption
amendment-failure - 2025-09-02 Record vote
- 2025-09-02 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- 2025-09-02 Amendment to amendment offered
- 2025-09-02 Point of order sustained (amendment)
- 2025-09-02 Amendment to amendment offered
- 2025-09-02 Point of order withdrawn (amendment)
withdrawal - 2025-09-02 Point of order overruled (amendment)
- 2025-09-02 Amendment amended
amendment-amendment - 2025-09-02 Record vote
- 2025-09-02 Point of order withdrawn (amendment)
withdrawal - 2025-09-02 Amendment to amendment fails of adoption
amendment-failure - 2025-09-02 Record vote
- 2025-09-02 Amendment to amendment fails of adoption
amendment-failure - 2025-09-02 Record vote
- 2025-09-02 Amendment to amendment offered
- 2025-09-02 Point of order withdrawn (amendment)
withdrawal - 2025-09-02 Amendment to amendment withdrawn
withdrawal - 2025-09-02 Amendment adopted as amended
amendment-passage - 2025-09-02 Record vote
- 2025-09-02 Passed to engrossment as amended
amendment-passage - 2025-09-02 Record vote
- 2025-09-02 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- 2025-09-02 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2025-09-02 Passed
passage - 2025-09-02 Record vote
- 2025-09-02 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- 2025-09-02 Reason for vote recorded in Journal
- 2025-09-02 Reported engrossed
- 2025-09-02 Received from the House
introduction - 2025-09-02 Read first time
introduction, reading-1 - 2025-09-02 Referred to State Affairs
referral-committee - 2025-09-02 Posting rule suspended
- 2025-09-02 Record vote
- 2025-09-03 Co-sponsor authorized
- 2025-09-03 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- 2025-09-03 Considered in public hearing
- 2025-09-03 Testimony taken in committee
- 2025-09-03 Vote taken in committee
- 2025-09-03 Reported favorably w/o amendments
committee-passage-favorable - 2025-09-03 Committee report printed and distributed
- 2025-09-03 Printing rule suspended
- 2025-09-03 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- 2025-09-03 Record vote
- 2025-09-03 Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
reading-2 - 2025-09-03 Record vote
- 2025-09-04 Laid before the Senate
receipt - 2025-09-04 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2025-09-04 Passed
passage - 2025-09-04 Record vote
- 2025-09-04 Senate passage reported
passage - 2025-09-04 Reported enrolled
enrolled - 2025-09-04 Signed in the House
passage - 2025-09-04 Signed in the Senate
passage - 2025-09-04 Sent to the Governor
executive-receipt - 2025-09-17 Signed by the Governor
executive-signature - 2025-09-17 Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f6c119aa-2d4c-4307-9e77-90b897d6c187. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).