republic-os/legislation/us/states/tx/89r/hb-285.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Relating to the prosecution of the offense of cruelty to nonlivestock animals.	Relating to the prosecution of the offense of cruelty to nonlivestock animals.	us/states/tx	Texas Legislature	89R	HB 285	Texas HB 285 (89R)	bill	Animals (I0035) Crimes--Miscellaneous (I0200) VETERINARIANS (S0072)	enacted	Cook Leach Meyer Moody Ordaz West	5	53	3	2024-11-12	2025-06-20	openstates	ocd-bill/0f288ccc-fa96-473b-ae77-59a64140d02c	ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00200_HB00299/HB 285.xml	113ea9ee623e3b316ecdaaa9bac642cb4511014502d55a14dbe3881463d7439d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-tx

Texas HB 285 (89R) — Relating to the prosecution of the offense of cruelty to nonlivestock animals.

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 — 125–5 (pass) · lower
• Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that HB 285 be placed on its third reading and final passage. — 31–0 (pass) · upper
• passage — 123–19 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cook — primary (person)
• Leach — primary (person)
• Meyer — primary (person)
• Moody — primary (person)
• Ordaz — primary (person)
• West — primary (person)
• Blanco — cosponsor (person)
• Bowers — cosponsor (person)
• Flores — cosponsor (person)
• Flores — cosponsor (person)
• González, Jessica — cosponsor (person)
• Hagenbuch — cosponsor (person)
• Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy" — cosponsor (person)
• Kerwin — cosponsor (person)
• Little — cosponsor (person)
• Louderback — cosponsor (person)
• Luther — cosponsor (person)
• Miles — cosponsor (person)
• Money — cosponsor (person)
• Morales Shaw — cosponsor (person)
• Pierson — cosponsor (person)
• Plesa — cosponsor (person)
• Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Virdell — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-11-12 Filed filing
• 2025-02-27 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-02-27 Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence referral-committee
• 2025-03-25 Referred directly to subcommittee by chair
• 2025-04-15 Scheduled for public hearing in s/c on . . .
• 2025-04-15 Considered by s/c in public hearing
• 2025-04-15 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in subcommittee
• 2025-04-15 Left pending in subcommittee
• 2025-04-16 Recalled from subcommittee
• 2025-04-16 Considered in formal meeting
• 2025-04-16 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-24 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
• 2025-04-24 Committee report distributed
• 2025-04-25 Committee report sent to Calendars
• 2025-04-28 Considered in Calendars
• 2025-05-01 Placed on General State Calendar
• 2025-05-01 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-05-01 Passed to engrossment
• 2025-05-01 Record vote
• 2025-05-01 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-02 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-05-02 Passed passage
• 2025-05-02 Record vote
• 2025-05-02 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-02 Reported engrossed
• 2025-05-05 Received from the House introduction
• 2025-05-05 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-05-05 Referred to Criminal Justice referral-committee
• 2025-05-13 Co-sponsor authorized
• 2025-05-20 Co-sponsor authorized
• 2025-05-20 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
• 2025-05-20 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-05-20 Testimony taken in committee
• 2025-05-20 Vote taken in committee
• 2025-05-21 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-21 Committee report printed and distributed
• 2025-05-23 Co-sponsor authorized
• 2025-05-23 Placed on intent calendar
• 2025-05-23 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
• 2025-05-23 Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading reading-2
• 2025-05-23 Vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-23 Three day rule suspended
• 2025-05-23 Record vote
• 2025-05-23 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-05-23 Passed passage
• 2025-05-23 Record vote
• 2025-05-24 Senate passage reported passage
• 2025-05-24 Reported enrolled enrolled
• 2025-05-25 Signed in the House passage
• 2025-05-25 Signed in the Senate passage
• 2025-05-26 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-06-20 Filed without the Governor's signature became-law
• 2025-06-20 Effective on 9/1/25 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0f288ccc-fa96-473b-ae77-59a64140d02c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).