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Bill Relating to severance pay for political subdivision employees and independent contractors. Relating to severance pay for political subdivision employees and independent contractors. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 89R HB 762 Texas HB 762 (89R)
bill
CONTRACTORS & SUBCONTRACTORS (S2563)
City Government--Employees/Officers (I0061)
County Government--Employees/Officers (I0095)
Political Subdivisions (I0588)
Salaries & Expenses (I0745)
enacted
Bettencourt
Cook
Landgraf
Leach
Slawson
5 63 5 2024-11-12 2025-06-22 openstates ocd-bill/78dc554f-f307-4fdc-8290-573ffb9e815f ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00700_HB00799/HB 762.xml e3d707f6bc84b08265fc5860abeefca642a49d05ad40e20b6fadfacf812e12c1 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-tx

Texas HB 762 (89R) — Relating to severance pay for political subdivision employees and independent contractors.

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

  • Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that HB 762 be placed on its third reading and final passage. — 301 (pass) · upper
  • passage — 13210 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 12113 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 1286 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 12113 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Bettencourt — primary (person)
  • Cook — primary (person)
  • Landgraf — primary (person)
  • Leach — primary (person)
  • Slawson — primary (person)
  • Kerwin — cosponsor (person)
  • Kolkhorst — cosponsor (person)
  • Metcalf — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2024-11-12 Filed filing
  • 2025-03-05 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2025-03-05 Referred to Intergovernmental Affairs referral-committee
  • 2025-03-18 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-03-18 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
  • 2025-03-18 Left pending in committee
  • 2025-04-07 Considered in formal meeting
  • 2025-04-07 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
  • 2025-04-28 Considered in Calendars
  • 2025-04-30 Placed on General State Calendar
  • 2025-04-30 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2025-04-30 Passed to engrossment
  • 2025-04-30 Record vote
  • 2025-04-30 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-05-01 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2025-05-01 Passed passage
  • 2025-05-01 Record vote
  • 2025-05-01 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-05-01 Reported engrossed
  • 2025-05-05 Received from the House introduction
  • 2025-05-05 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2025-05-05 Referred to Local Government referral-committee
  • 2025-05-08 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2025-05-08 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-05-08 Left pending in committee
  • 2025-05-12 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-05-12 Vote taken in committee
  • 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
  • 2025-05-16 Placed on intent calendar
  • 2025-05-19 Not again placed on intent calendar
  • 2025-05-21 Co-sponsor authorized
  • 2025-05-21 Placed on intent calendar
  • 2025-05-21 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
  • 2025-05-21 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2025-05-21 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
  • 2025-05-21 Amended amendment-passage
  • 2025-05-21 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-05-21 Passed to 3rd reading as amended amendment-passage
  • 2025-05-21 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-05-21 Three day rule suspended
  • 2025-05-21 Record vote
  • 2025-05-21 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2025-05-21 Passed passage
  • 2025-05-21 Record vote
  • 2025-05-21 Senate passage as amended reported amendment-passage
  • 2025-05-21 Senate Amendments distributed
  • 2025-05-21 Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
  • 2025-05-28 House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
  • 2025-05-28 Record vote
  • 2025-05-28 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 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
  • 2025-06-22 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2025-06-22 Effective on 9/1/25 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/78dc554f-f307-4fdc-8290-573ffb9e815f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).