republic-os/legislation/us/states/tx/89r/sb-1036.md

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Bill	Relating to the regulation of residential solar retail transactions; requiring an occupational registration; authorizing fees; providing civil and administrative penalties.	Relating to the regulation of residential solar retail transactions; requiring an occupational registration; authorizing fees; providing civil and administrative penalties.	us/states/tx	Texas Legislature	89R	SB 1036	Texas SB 1036 (89R)	bill	Business & Commerce--Trade Practices (I0006) CONSUMER CREDIT COMMISSIONER OFFICE OF (V0242) Civil Remedies & Liabilities (I0065) Consumer Protection (I0080) ELECTRICIANS & ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS (S0288) Energy--Solar (I0316) LICENSING & REGULATION TEXAS COMMISSION OF (V0383) LICENSING & REGULATION TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF (V8529) Occupational Regulation--Other Trades & Professions (I0541) PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION (V0023) RESIDENTIAL SOLAR RETAILER REGULATORY ACT (P00VX) Utilities--Electric (I0831)	enacted	Darby Zaffirini	5	54	4	2025-01-31	2025-06-20	openstates	ocd-bill/98e99b79-7bca-42a0-a8dd-5f499d8b22c3	ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB01000_SB01099/SB 1036.xml	091b67871de096d8102e50dd2788df0732648276ce406c1cefec4dcf57a0369c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-tx

Texas SB 1036 (89R) — Relating to the regulation of residential solar retail transactions; requiring an occupational registration; authorizing fees; providing civil and administrative penalties.

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 — 94–37 (pass) · lower
• passage — 100–36 (pass) · lower
• Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that CSSB 1036 be placed on its third reading and final passage. — 25–5 (pass) · upper
• passage — 25–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Darby — primary (person)
• Zaffirini — primary (person)
• Blanco — cosponsor (person)
• Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy" — cosponsor (person)
• Menéndez — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-31 Received by the Secretary of the Senate filing, introduction
• 2025-01-31 Filed filing
• 2025-02-24 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-02-24 Referred to Business & Commerce referral-committee
• 2025-03-18 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
• 2025-03-18 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-03-18 Testimony taken in committee
• 2025-03-18 Left pending in committee
• 2025-03-19 Co-author authorized
• 2025-03-27 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-03-27 Vote taken in committee
• 2025-03-31 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-31 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
• 2025-03-31 Committee report printed and distributed
• 2025-04-02 Placed on intent calendar
• 2025-04-07 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
• 2025-04-07 Record vote
• 2025-04-07 Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment reading-2
• 2025-04-07 Record vote
• 2025-04-07 Three day rule suspended
• 2025-04-07 Record vote
• 2025-04-07 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-07 Passed passage
• 2025-04-07 Record vote
• 2025-04-07 Reported engrossed
• 2025-04-08 Received from the Senate introduction
• 2025-04-22 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-04-22 Referred to State Affairs referral-committee
• 2025-05-05 Posting rule suspended
• 2025-05-09 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-05-09 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
• 2025-05-09 Left pending in committee
• 2025-05-12 Considered in formal meeting
• 2025-05-12 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-15 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
• 2025-05-15 Committee report distributed
• 2025-05-15 Committee report sent to Calendars
• 2025-05-19 Considered in Calendars
• 2025-05-21 Placed on General State Calendar
• 2025-05-22 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-05-22 Passed to 3rd reading
• 2025-05-22 Record vote
• 2025-05-22 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-23 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-05-23 Passed passage
• 2025-05-23 Record vote
• 2025-05-23 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-23 House passage reported passage
• 2025-05-23 Reported enrolled enrolled
• 2025-05-26 Signed in the Senate passage
• 2025-05-26 Signed in the House passage
• 2025-05-27 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-06-20 Filed without the Governor's signature became-law
• 2025-06-20 See remarks for effective date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/98e99b79-7bca-42a0-a8dd-5f499d8b22c3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).