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type: "Bill"
title: "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."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "892"
identifier: "SB 8"
citation: "Texas SB 8 (892)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["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)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bettencourt", "Birdwell", "Bonnen", "Campbell", "Creighton", "Flores", "Hagenbuch", "Hall", "Harris", "Hinojosa, Adam", "Huffman", "Hughes", "King", "Kolkhorst", "Leach", "Metcalf", "Middleton", "Orr", "Paxton", "Sparks"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 98
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2025-08-15"
last_action: "2025-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/628f4192-e8db-4802-9e01-1a672027f9e0"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/892/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00001_SB00099/SB 8.xml"
source_hash: "2b2b789ca5beee13681e90c1ca05ffba85113f162102640f820d05a8e8b5b7b0"
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 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](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/892/billtext/html/SB00008I.HTM)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/892/billtext/html/SB00008E.HTM)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/892/billtext/html/SB00008H.HTM)
4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/892/billtext/html/SB00008S.HTM)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/892/billtext/html/SB00008F.HTM)
## Votes
- other — **4585** (fail) · lower
- passage — **8645** (pass) · lower
- passage — **188** (pass) · upper
- passage — **8449** (pass) · lower
- passage — **1911** (pass) · upper
- passage — **1911** (pass) · upper
- passage — **8643** (pass) · lower
- passage — **8048** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/628f4192-e8db-4802-9e01-1a672027f9e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).