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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)
bill
Ethics (I0345)
FIFTEENTH COURT OF APPEALS (VM34V)
Legislature (I0520)
POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS (S0114)
Salaries & Expenses (I0745)
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Gerdes
Hinojosa, Adam
Shaheen
Swanson
5 75 6 2025-08-21 2025-09-17 openstates ocd-bill/f6c119aa-2d4c-4307-9e77-90b897d6c187 ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/892/billhistory/house_bills/HB00001_HB00099/HB 18.xml a0959e30e904da07f462a15f94bebe064b72c229f339b96f08f3fc85556ece6f 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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us-tx

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.

  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 — 8646 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 8646 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 188 (pass) · upper
  • other — 4485 (fail) · lower
  • passage — 189 (pass) · upper
  • passage — 188 (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).