republic-os/legislation/us/states/tx/892/sb-12.md

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Bill	Relating to the duty of the attorney general to prosecute criminal offenses prescribed by the election laws of this state.	Relating to the duty of the attorney general to prosecute criminal offenses prescribed by the election laws of this state.	us/states/tx	Texas Legislature	892	SB 12	Texas SB 12 (892)	bill	ATTORNEY GENERAL (V2811) Courts--District (I0120) Courts--Prosecuting Attorneys (I0165) Crimes--Against Persons--General (I0170) Criminal Procedure--General (I0208) Elections--General (I0310) Ethics (I0345) Law Enforcement (I0510)	enacted	Bettencourt Campbell Creighton Hagenbuch Hall Hinojosa, Adam Huffman Hughes King Middleton Parker Paxton Perry Schwertner Shaheen Sparks	5	51	6	2025-08-15	2025-09-19	openstates	ocd-bill/68e9b73c-d3c5-464c-87b2-cf5da0c1626c	ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/892/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00001_SB00099/SB 12.xml	77005cad898e2d9ff002445fb09730822e2eea51990d17c1ebbe542b815125b3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-tx

Texas SB 12 (892) — Relating to the duty of the attorney general to prosecute criminal offenses prescribed by the election laws of this state.

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

• other — 54–84 (fail) · lower
• passage — 18–12 (pass) · upper
• passage — 85–54 (pass) · lower
• passage — 94–40 (pass) · lower
• passage — 85–54 (pass) · lower
• passage — 18–12 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bettencourt — primary (person)
• Campbell — primary (person)
• Creighton — primary (person)
• Hagenbuch — primary (person)
• Hall — primary (person)
• Hinojosa, Adam — primary (person)
• Huffman — primary (person)
• Hughes — primary (person)
• King — primary (person)
• Middleton — primary (person)
• Parker — primary (person)
• Paxton — primary (person)
• Perry — primary (person)
• Schwertner — primary (person)
• Shaheen — primary (person)
• Sparks — primary (person)
• Bonnen — cosponsor (person)
• Hefner — cosponsor (person)
• Hopper — cosponsor (person)
• Kolkhorst — cosponsor (person)
• Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
• Paul — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2025-08-15 Received by the Secretary of the Senate filing, introduction
• 2025-08-15 Filed filing
• 2025-08-15 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-08-15 Referred to State Affairs referral-committee
• 2025-08-15 Posting rule suspended
• 2025-08-15 Record vote
• 2025-08-15 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
• 2025-08-15 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-08-15 Testimony taken in committee
• 2025-08-15 Vote taken in committee
• 2025-08-15 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-08-15 Committee report printed and distributed
• 2025-08-18 Co-author authorized
• 2025-08-18 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
• 2025-08-18 Record vote
• 2025-08-18 Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment reading-2
• 2025-08-18 Record vote
• 2025-08-19 Laid before the Senate receipt
• 2025-08-19 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-08-19 Passed passage
• 2025-08-19 Record vote
• 2025-08-19 Reason for vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-08-19 Reported engrossed
• 2025-08-20 Received from the Senate introduction
• 2025-08-20 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-08-20 Referred to State Affairs referral-committee
• 2025-08-26 Considered in formal meeting
• 2025-08-26 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-08-26 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
• 2025-08-26 Committee report distributed
• 2025-08-26 Committee report sent to Calendars
• 2025-08-26 Laid out in lieu of companion
• 2025-08-26 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-08-26 Point of order withdrawn withdrawal
• 2025-08-26 Amendment fails of adoption amendment-failure
• 2025-08-26 Record vote
• 2025-08-26 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-08-26 Passed to 3rd reading
• 2025-08-26 Record vote
• 2025-08-26 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-08-26 Passed passage
• 2025-08-26 Record vote
• 2025-08-26 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-08-26 Reason for vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-08-26 House passage reported passage
• 2025-08-26 Reported enrolled enrolled
• 2025-08-27 Signed in the Senate passage
• 2025-08-28 Signed in the House passage
• 2025-08-28 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-09-19 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2025-09-19 Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/68e9b73c-d3c5-464c-87b2-cf5da0c1626c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).