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Bill Relating to the sealing of certain documents alleged to contain trade secrets. Relating to the sealing of certain documents alleged to contain trade secrets. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 89R HB 4081 Texas HB 4081 (89R)
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Business & Commerce--Trade Practices (I0006)
Civil Remedies & Liabilities (I0065)
Courts--General (I0160)
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Bumgarner
Hayes
Hughes
Vasut
5 53 3 2025-03-07 2025-06-20 openstates ocd-bill/eb77c4a1-2b45-4ddb-a795-1062bb8638bb ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/house_bills/HB04000_HB04099/HB 4081.xml 09c456a3450ef1dbc1fa8aa656308cc1879cdc37e44dd399d70830fcda42ad8a 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-tx

Texas HB 4081 (89R) — Relating to the sealing of certain documents alleged to contain trade secrets.

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 — 1297 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 1405 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 1297 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Bumgarner — primary (person)
  • Hayes — primary (person)
  • Hughes — primary (person)
  • Vasut — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-03-07 Filed filing
  • 2025-03-27 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2025-03-27 Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence referral-committee
  • 2025-04-09 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-04-09 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
  • 2025-04-09 Left pending in committee
  • 2025-04-14 Considered in formal meeting
  • 2025-04-14 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-04-23 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2025-04-23 Committee report distributed
  • 2025-04-25 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2025-04-30 Considered in Calendars
  • 2025-05-02 Placed on General State Calendar
  • 2025-05-05 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2025-05-05 Amended amendment-passage
  • 2025-05-05 Passed to engrossment as amended amendment-passage
  • 2025-05-06 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2025-05-06 Passed passage
  • 2025-05-06 Record vote
  • 2025-05-06 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-05-06 Reported engrossed
  • 2025-05-06 Received from the House introduction
  • 2025-05-07 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2025-05-07 Referred to State Affairs referral-committee
  • 2025-05-22 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2025-05-22 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-05-22 Vote taken in committee
  • 2025-05-25 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-05-25 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
  • 2025-05-25 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2025-05-28 Placed on local & uncontested calendar
  • 2025-05-28 Laid before the Senate receipt
  • 2025-05-28 Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading reading-2
  • 2025-05-28 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-05-28 Three day rule suspended
  • 2025-05-28 Record vote
  • 2025-05-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2025-05-28 Passed passage
  • 2025-05-28 Record vote
  • 2025-05-29 Senate passage as amended reported amendment-passage
  • 2025-05-29 Senate Amendments distributed
  • 2025-05-29 Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
  • 2025-05-30 House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
  • 2025-05-30 Record vote
  • 2025-05-30 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-05-30 Text of Senate Amendment(s)
  • 2025-05-30 House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported
  • 2025-05-31 Reported enrolled enrolled
  • 2025-06-01 Signed in the House passage
  • 2025-06-01 Signed in the Senate passage
  • 2025-06-02 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
  • 2025-06-20 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2025-06-20 Effective on 9/1/25 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/eb77c4a1-2b45-4ddb-a795-1062bb8638bb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).