republic-os/legislation/us/states/tx/892/sb-8.md

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Bill	Relating to the designation and use of certain spaces and facilities according to sex; authorizing a civil penalty and a private civil right of action.	Relating to the designation and use of certain spaces and facilities according to sex; authorizing a civil penalty and a private civil right of action.	us/states/tx	Texas Legislature	892	SB 8	Texas SB 8 (892)	bill	ATTORNEY GENERAL (V2811) ATTORNEY'S FEES (S0202) BIRTH & DEATH CERTIFICATES (S6418) CRIMINAL JUSTICE TEXAS BOARD OF (V0740) CRIMINAL JUSTICE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF (V8788) Civil Remedies & Liabilities (I0065) Corrections--Jails & Prisons (I0092) Courts--General (I0160) Education--Higher--General (I0231) Family--Family Violence (I0353) GENDER IDENTITY & EXPRESSION (S0767) Political Subdivisions (I0588) State Agencies Boards & Commissions (I0749) TEXAS WOMEN'S PRIVACY ACT (PH8L1) WOMEN'S SHELTERS (S0049) Women (I0925)	enacted	Bettencourt Birdwell Bonnen Campbell Creighton Flores Hagenbuch Hall Harris Hinojosa, Adam Huffman Hughes King Kolkhorst Leach Metcalf Middleton Orr Paxton Sparks	5	98	8	2025-08-15	2025-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/628f4192-e8db-4802-9e01-1a672027f9e0	ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/892/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00001_SB00099/SB 8.xml	2b2b789ca5beee13681e90c1ca05ffba85113f162102640f820d05a8e8b5b7b0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-tx

Texas SB 8 (892) — Relating to the designation and use of certain spaces and facilities according to sex; authorizing a civil penalty and a private civil right of action.

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 — 45–85 (fail) · lower
• passage — 86–45 (pass) · lower
• passage — 18–8 (pass) · upper
• passage — 84–49 (pass) · lower
• passage — 19–11 (pass) · upper
• passage — 19–11 (pass) · upper
• passage — 86–43 (pass) · lower
• passage — 80–48 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bettencourt — primary (person)
• Birdwell — primary (person)
• Bonnen — primary (person)
• Campbell — primary (person)
• Creighton — primary (person)
• Flores — primary (person)
• Hagenbuch — primary (person)
• Hall — primary (person)
• Harris — primary (person)
• Hinojosa, Adam — primary (person)
• Huffman — primary (person)
• Hughes — primary (person)
• King — primary (person)
• Kolkhorst — primary (person)
• Leach — primary (person)
• Metcalf — primary (person)
• Middleton — primary (person)
• Orr — primary (person)
• Paxton — primary (person)
• Sparks — primary (person)
• Alders — cosponsor (person)
• Ashby — cosponsor (person)
• Barry — cosponsor (person)
• Bell, Cecil — cosponsor (person)
• Bell, Keith — cosponsor (person)
• Buckley — cosponsor (person)
• Bumgarner — cosponsor (person)
• Button — cosponsor (person)
• Cain — cosponsor (person)
• Capriglione — cosponsor (person)
• Cook — cosponsor (person)
• Craddick — cosponsor (person)
• Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
• Curry — cosponsor (person)
• DeAyala — cosponsor (person)
• Dorazio — cosponsor (person)
• Dyson — cosponsor (person)
• Gerdes — cosponsor (person)
• Guillen — cosponsor (person)
• Harless — cosponsor (person)
• Harris Davila — cosponsor (person)
• Hayes — cosponsor (person)
• Hefner — cosponsor (person)
• Hickland — cosponsor (person)
• Holt — cosponsor (person)
• Hopper — cosponsor (person)
• Hull — cosponsor (person)
• Hunter — cosponsor (person)
• Isaac — cosponsor (person)
• Kerwin — cosponsor (person)
• Kitzman — cosponsor (person)
• LaHood — cosponsor (person)
• Landgraf — cosponsor (person)
• Leo Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Little — cosponsor (person)
• Lopez, Janie — cosponsor (person)
• Lowe — cosponsor (person)
• Luther — cosponsor (person)
• McLaughlin — cosponsor (person)
• McQueeney — cosponsor (person)
• Meyer — cosponsor (person)
• Morgan — cosponsor (person)
• Parker — cosponsor (person)
• Patterson — cosponsor (person)
• Paul — cosponsor (person)
• Phelan — cosponsor (person)
• Pierson — cosponsor (person)
• Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Schoolcraft — cosponsor (person)
• Shaheen — cosponsor (person)
• Shofner — cosponsor (person)
• Slawson — cosponsor (person)
• Spiller — cosponsor (person)
• Tepper — cosponsor (person)
• Tinderholt — cosponsor (person)
• Troxclair — cosponsor (person)
• Villalobos — cosponsor (person)
• Virdell — cosponsor (person)
• Wharton — cosponsor (person)
• Wilson — 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
• 2025-08-22 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-08-22 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
• 2025-08-22 Left pending in committee
• 2025-08-25 Considered in formal meeting
• 2025-08-25 Amendment(s) considered in committee
• 2025-08-25 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
• 2025-08-27 Committee report sent to Calendars
• 2025-08-27 Considered in Calendars
• 2025-08-28 Placed on General State Calendar
• 2025-08-28 Rules suspended
• 2025-08-28 Additional sponsor(s) authorized
• 2025-08-28 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-08-28 Amendment tabled deferral
• 2025-08-28 Record vote
• 2025-08-28 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-08-28 Amendment tabled deferral
• 2025-08-28 Record vote
• 2025-08-28 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-08-28 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
• 2025-08-28 Point of order withdrawn (amendment) withdrawal
• 2025-08-28 Amendment withdrawn amendment-withdrawal, withdrawal
• 2025-08-28 Amendment tabled deferral
• 2025-08-28 Record vote
• 2025-08-28 Amendment tabled deferral
• 2025-08-28 Record vote
• 2025-08-28 Amendment tabled deferral
• 2025-08-28 Record vote
• 2025-08-28 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-08-28 Amendment tabled deferral
• 2025-08-28 Record vote
• 2025-08-28 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-08-28 Amendment tabled deferral
• 2025-08-28 Record vote
• 2025-08-28 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
• 2025-08-28 Point of order withdrawn (amendment) withdrawal
• 2025-08-28 Amendment withdrawn amendment-withdrawal, withdrawal
• 2025-08-28 Amendment tabled deferral
• 2025-08-28 Record vote
• 2025-08-28 Amendment tabled deferral
• 2025-08-28 Record vote
• 2025-08-28 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
• 2025-08-28 Point of order withdrawn (amendment) withdrawal
• 2025-08-28 Amendment tabled deferral
• 2025-08-28 Record vote
• 2025-08-28 Amendment tabled deferral
• 2025-08-28 Record vote
• 2025-08-28 Point of order withdrawn withdrawal
• 2025-08-28 Point of order withdrawn withdrawal
• 2025-08-28 Amended amendment-passage
• 2025-08-28 Record vote
• 2025-08-28 Passed to 3rd reading as amended amendment-passage
• 2025-08-28 Record vote
• 2025-08-28 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-08-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-08-28 Passed passage
• 2025-08-28 Record vote
• 2025-08-28 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-08-28 Reason for vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-09-02 House passage as amended reported amendment-passage
• 2025-09-03 House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
• 2025-09-03 Read
• 2025-09-03 Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
• 2025-09-03 Record vote
• 2025-09-03 Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported
• 2025-09-03 Reported enrolled enrolled
• 2025-09-03 Signed in the Senate passage
• 2025-09-03 Signed in the House passage
• 2025-09-04 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-09-22 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2025-09-22 Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/628f4192-e8db-4802-9e01-1a672027f9e0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).