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Bill Relating to rates established by municipalities for water or sewer service for certain entities. Relating to rates established by municipalities for water or sewer service for certain entities. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 89R HB 685 Texas HB 685 (89R)
bill
City Government--Utilities (I0068)
Taxation--Property-Exemptions (I0793)
Utilities--Water & Sewer (I0002)
WATER & SEWER SERVICE (S0443)
enacted
Bell, Cecil
Creighton
5 45 2 2024-11-12 2025-06-20 openstates ocd-bill/2b82b5b3-a039-4510-af37-aa873c66be92 ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00600_HB00699/HB 685.xml efd6419b9100bd2c2cefd23203e146f8305ebff6b04a7d4078009baeee788c18 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-tx

Texas HB 685 (89R) — Relating to rates established by municipalities for water or sewer service for certain entities.

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 — 1450 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 1450 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Bell, Cecil — primary (person)
  • Creighton — primary (person)
  • Kolkhorst — 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 Natural Resources referral-committee
  • 2025-03-26 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-03-26 Left pending in committee
  • 2025-04-02 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-04-02 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-04-08 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2025-04-08 Committee report distributed
  • 2025-04-08 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2025-04-17 Considered in Calendars
  • 2025-04-22 Placed on General State Calendar
  • 2025-04-22 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2025-04-22 Passed to engrossment
  • 2025-04-22 Record vote
  • 2025-04-23 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2025-04-23 Passed passage
  • 2025-04-23 Record vote
  • 2025-04-23 Reported engrossed
  • 2025-04-24 Received from the House introduction
  • 2025-04-24 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2025-04-24 Referred to Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs referral-committee
  • 2025-05-12 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2025-05-12 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-05-12 Vote taken in committee
  • 2025-05-13 Co-sponsor authorized
  • 2025-05-13 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-05-13 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
  • 2025-05-13 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2025-05-25 Placed on local & uncontested calendar
  • 2025-05-25 Laid before the Senate receipt
  • 2025-05-25 Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading reading-2
  • 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
  • 2025-05-25 Senate passage reported passage
  • 2025-05-26 Reported enrolled enrolled
  • 2025-05-27 Signed in the House passage
  • 2025-05-27 Signed in the Senate passage
  • 2025-05-28 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/2b82b5b3-a039-4510-af37-aa873c66be92. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).