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Bill Relating to the removal of certain restrictions imposed on driver's licenses; authorizing a fee. Relating to the removal of certain restrictions imposed on driver's licenses; authorizing a fee. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 89R HB 647 Texas HB 647 (89R)
bill
EYECARE & VISION (S0053)
Health Care Providers (I0387)
PUBLIC SAFETY
DEPARTMENT OF (V0251)
Vehicles & Traffic--Driver's Licenses (I0840)
enacted
Hagenbuch
Holt
Leo Wilson
Patterson
5 60 5 2024-11-12 2025-06-20 openstates ocd-bill/34c83ee3-0470-40fd-880d-9412678663f3 ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00600_HB00699/HB 647.xml bb361c72f4142e82f6bfdf5fe2df8a089c6c7967ce025a2d9fabf50b10031dc0 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-tx

Texas HB 647 (89R) — Relating to the removal of certain restrictions imposed on driver's licenses; authorizing a fee.

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 — 1461 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 1451 (pass) · lower
  • Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that HB 647 be placed on its third reading and final passage. — 310 (pass) · upper
  • passage — 11523 (pass) · upper
  • passage — 11523 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Hagenbuch — primary (person)
  • Holt — primary (person)
  • Leo Wilson — primary (person)
  • Patterson — primary (person)
  • Blanco — cosponsor (person)
  • Flores — cosponsor (person)
  • West — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2024-11-12 Filed filing
  • 2025-03-04 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2025-03-04 Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs referral-committee
  • 2025-03-12 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-03-12 Committee substitute considered in committee substitution
  • 2025-03-12 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
  • 2025-03-12 Left pending in committee
  • 2025-03-19 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-03-19 Committee substitute considered in committee substitution
  • 2025-03-19 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-03-24 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2025-03-24 Committee report distributed
  • 2025-03-24 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2025-04-01 Considered in Calendars
  • 2025-04-09 Placed on General State Calendar
  • 2025-04-09 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2025-04-09 Passed to engrossment
  • 2025-04-09 Record vote
  • 2025-04-09 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-04-10 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2025-04-10 Passed passage
  • 2025-04-10 Record vote
  • 2025-04-10 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-04-10 Reported engrossed
  • 2025-04-10 Received from the House introduction
  • 2025-04-14 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2025-04-14 Referred to Transportation referral-committee
  • 2025-05-14 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2025-05-14 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-05-14 Vote taken in committee
  • 2025-05-14 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-05-14 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2025-05-16 Placed on intent calendar
  • 2025-05-20 Co-sponsor authorized
  • 2025-05-23 Co-sponsor authorized
  • 2025-05-25 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
  • 2025-05-25 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2025-05-25 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
  • 2025-05-25 Amended amendment-passage
  • 2025-05-25 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-05-25 Passed to 3rd reading as amended amendment-passage
  • 2025-05-25 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-05-25 Three day rule suspended
  • 2025-05-25 Record vote
  • 2025-05-25 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2025-05-25 Passed passage
  • 2025-05-25 Record vote
  • 2025-05-26 Senate passage as amended reported amendment-passage
  • 2025-05-26 Senate Amendments distributed
  • 2025-05-26 Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
  • 2025-05-28 House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
  • 2025-05-28 Record vote
  • 2025-05-28 Text of Senate Amendment(s)
  • 2025-05-28 House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported
  • 2025-05-29 Reported enrolled enrolled
  • 2025-05-30 Signed in the House passage
  • 2025-05-31 Signed in the Senate passage
  • 2025-05-31 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/34c83ee3-0470-40fd-880d-9412678663f3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).