republic-os/legislation/us/states/tx/89r/sb-1273.md

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Bill	Relating to establishing the Higher Education Research Security Council.	Relating to establishing the Higher Education Research Security Council.	us/states/tx	Texas Legislature	89R	SB 1273	Texas SB 1273 (89R)	bill	Education--Higher--Institutions & Programs (I0223) Education--Higher--State Coordination (I0224) Electronic Information Systems (I0311) HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH SECURITY COUNCIL (V20ZM) RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT (S0135) State Agencies Boards & Commissions--Newly Proposed (I0773) TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (U0079)	enacted	Hughes Wilson	5	54	2	2025-02-13	2025-05-27	openstates	ocd-bill/3dccce7e-b1f3-4a74-aa69-399a31b526f6	ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB01200_SB01299/SB 1273.xml	892992631723bfdc21ce37b16956fc0fa780fd4b5af4d2cfbef99453fab0ef38	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-tx

Texas SB 1273 (89R) — Relating to establishing the Higher Education Research Security Council.

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 — 139–5 (pass) · lower
• passage — 29–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hughes — primary (person)
• Wilson — primary (person)
• Blanco — cosponsor (person)
• Hagenbuch — cosponsor (person)
• Paxton — cosponsor (person)
• Sparks — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-13 Received by the Secretary of the Senate filing, introduction
• 2025-02-13 Filed filing
• 2025-02-28 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-02-28 Referred to Education K-16 referral-committee
• 2025-03-20 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
• 2025-03-20 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-03-20 Testimony taken in committee
• 2025-03-20 Left pending in committee
• 2025-03-25 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-03-25 Vote taken in committee
• 2025-03-26 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-26 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
• 2025-03-27 Committee report printed and distributed
• 2025-03-31 Co-author authorized
• 2025-04-02 Co-author authorized
• 2025-04-10 Co-author authorized
• 2025-04-10 Placed on local & uncontested calendar
• 2025-04-10 Laid before the Senate receipt
• 2025-04-10 Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment reading-2
• 2025-04-10 Vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-04-10 Three day rule suspended
• 2025-04-10 Record vote
• 2025-04-10 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-10 Passed passage
• 2025-04-10 Record vote
• 2025-04-10 Reported engrossed
• 2025-04-14 Received from the Senate introduction
• 2025-04-17 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-04-17 Referred to Higher Education referral-committee
• 2025-04-22 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-04-22 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-25 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
• 2025-04-25 Committee report distributed
• 2025-04-28 Committee report sent to Calendars
• 2025-05-05 Laid out in lieu of companion
• 2025-05-05 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-05-05 Amended amendment-passage
• 2025-05-05 Passed to 3rd reading as amended amendment-passage
• 2025-05-06 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-05-06 Passed passage
• 2025-05-06 Record vote
• 2025-05-06 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-06 House passage as amended reported amendment-passage
• 2025-05-12 House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
• 2025-05-12 Read
• 2025-05-12 Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
• 2025-05-12 Record vote
• 2025-05-12 Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported
• 2025-05-12 Reported enrolled enrolled
• 2025-05-14 Signed in the Senate passage
• 2025-05-15 Signed in the House passage
• 2025-05-15 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-27 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-27 Effective on 9/1/25 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3dccce7e-b1f3-4a74-aa69-399a31b526f6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).