republic-os/legislation/us/states/tx/89r/sb-11.md

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Bill	Relating to a period of prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious text in public schools.	Relating to a period of prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious text in public schools.	us/states/tx	Texas Legislature	89R	SB 11	Texas SB 11 (89R)	bill	ATTORNEY GENERAL (V2811) Education--Primary & Secondary--Charter Schools (I0245) Education--Primary & Secondary--Other School Personnel (I0246) Education--Primary & Secondary--Teachers (I0242) Education--School Districts (I0220) PARENTAL CONSENT (S0318) PARENTAL NOTIFICATION (S0319) Religion (I0646)	enacted	Bettencourt Birdwell Campbell Cook Creighton Flores Hagenbuch Hall Hancock Hinojosa, Adam Huffman Hughes King Kolkhorst Middleton Nichols Parker Paul Paxton Perry Schwertner Sparks Spiller	5	61	4	2025-02-10	2025-06-20	openstates	ocd-bill/b17717cc-132e-4d97-9893-ddabb1b97986	ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00001_SB00099/SB 11.xml	fba6f6059a95825421834aa7bd79b5ecc2749d2aa3c7cb37560e8ee203971d21	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-tx

Texas SB 11 (89R) — Relating to a period of prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious text in public schools.

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 — 23–7 (pass) · upper
• passage — 91–51 (pass) · lower
• passage — 88–48 (pass) · lower
• Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that SB 11 be placed on its third reading and final passage. — 24–6 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bettencourt — primary (person)
• Birdwell — primary (person)
• Campbell — primary (person)
• Cook — primary (person)
• Creighton — primary (person)
• Flores — primary (person)
• Hagenbuch — primary (person)
• Hall — primary (person)
• Hancock — primary (person)
• Hinojosa, Adam — primary (person)
• Huffman — primary (person)
• Hughes — primary (person)
• King — primary (person)
• Kolkhorst — primary (person)
• Middleton — primary (person)
• Nichols — primary (person)
• Parker — primary (person)
• Paul — primary (person)
• Paxton — primary (person)
• Perry — primary (person)
• Schwertner — primary (person)
• Sparks — primary (person)
• Spiller — primary (person)
• Alders — cosponsor (person)
• Ashby — cosponsor (person)
• Bell, Keith — cosponsor (person)
• Cain — cosponsor (person)
• Curry — cosponsor (person)
• Harris — cosponsor (person)
• Harris Davila — cosponsor (person)
• Hayes — cosponsor (person)
• Hickland — cosponsor (person)
• Holt — cosponsor (person)
• Hopper — cosponsor (person)
• Isaac — cosponsor (person)
• Kerwin — cosponsor (person)
• Little — cosponsor (person)
• Lujan — cosponsor (person)
• McQueeney — cosponsor (person)
• Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
• Money — cosponsor (person)
• Noble — cosponsor (person)
• Olcott — cosponsor (person)
• Patterson — cosponsor (person)
• Pierson — cosponsor (person)
• Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Shofner — cosponsor (person)
• Slawson — cosponsor (person)
• Toth — cosponsor (person)
• Troxclair — cosponsor (person)
• Vasut — cosponsor (person)
• Virdell — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-10 Received by the Secretary of the Senate filing, introduction
• 2025-02-10 Filed filing
• 2025-02-11 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-02-11 Referred to Education K-16 referral-committee
• 2025-03-04 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
• 2025-03-04 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-03-04 Testimony taken in committee
• 2025-03-04 Vote taken in committee
• 2025-03-05 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-05 Committee report printed and distributed
• 2025-03-11 Placed on intent calendar
• 2025-03-13 Not again placed on intent calendar
• 2025-03-18 Placed on intent calendar
• 2025-03-18 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
• 2025-03-18 Record vote
• 2025-03-18 Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment reading-2
• 2025-03-18 Record vote
• 2025-03-18 Three day rule suspended
• 2025-03-18 Record vote
• 2025-03-18 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-18 Passed passage
• 2025-03-18 Record vote
• 2025-03-18 Reported engrossed
• 2025-03-19 Received from the Senate introduction
• 2025-04-17 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-04-17 Referred to State Affairs referral-committee
• 2025-05-07 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-05-07 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
• 2025-05-07 Left pending in committee
• 2025-05-10 Considered in formal meeting
• 2025-05-10 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-14 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
• 2025-05-14 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 Point of order withdrawn withdrawal
• 2025-05-22 Amendment tabled deferral
• 2025-05-22 Record vote
• 2025-05-22 Amendment tabled deferral
• 2025-05-22 Record vote
• 2025-05-22 Amendment tabled deferral
• 2025-05-22 Record vote
• 2025-05-22 Point of order withdrawn withdrawal
• 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 Rules suspended
• 2025-05-23 Additional sponsor(s) authorized
• 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 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/b17717cc-132e-4d97-9893-ddabb1b97986. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).