republic-os/legislation/us/states/tx/89r/sb-1405.md

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Bill	Relating to increasing access to and reducing taxation of Internet services.	Relating to increasing access to and reducing taxation of Internet services.	us/states/tx	Texas Legislature	89R	SB 1405	Texas SB 1405 (89R)	bill	BROADBAND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE (V62YT) BROADBAND NETWORKS (S0643) COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS (V2608) INTERNET (S0130) State Finances--Management & Control (I0748) Taxation--General (I0815) Taxation--Sales (I0800) Utilities--Telecommunications (I0828)	enacted	Ashby Nichols	5	81	9	2025-02-19	2025-06-20	openstates	ocd-bill/fd1ec7da-addd-4ea0-8ccf-8e41ff4dc012	ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB01400_SB01499/SB 1405.xml	28869902de3bcf94034b84f650b897da14542091360ad30f0821c36abfea01d4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-tx

Texas SB 1405 (89R) — Relating to increasing access to and reducing taxation of Internet services.

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 — 94–31 (pass) · lower
• Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that CSSB 1405 be placed on its third reading and final passage. — 27–4 (pass) · upper
• passage — 27–4 (pass) · upper
• passage — 27–4 (pass) · upper
• passage — 102–36 (pass) · lower
• passage — 102–36 (pass) · upper
• passage — 0–0 (pass) · upper
• passage — 111–31 (pass) · lower
• passage — 27–4 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ashby — primary (person)
• Nichols — primary (person)
• Hagenbuch — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-19 Received by the Secretary of the Senate filing, introduction
• 2025-02-19 Filed filing
• 2025-03-05 Co-author authorized
• 2025-03-06 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-03-06 Referred to Business & Commerce referral-committee
• 2025-04-01 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
• 2025-04-01 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-04-01 Testimony taken in committee
• 2025-04-01 Left pending in committee
• 2025-04-03 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-04-03 Vote taken in committee
• 2025-04-07 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-07 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
• 2025-04-07 Committee report printed and distributed
• 2025-04-14 Placed on intent calendar
• 2025-04-15 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
• 2025-04-15 Record vote
• 2025-04-15 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-15 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
• 2025-04-15 Amended amendment-passage
• 2025-04-15 Vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-04-15 Passed to engrossment as amended amendment-passage
• 2025-04-15 Record vote
• 2025-04-15 Three day rule suspended
• 2025-04-15 Record vote
• 2025-04-15 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-15 Passed passage
• 2025-04-15 Record vote
• 2025-04-15 Reported engrossed
• 2025-04-16 Received from the Senate introduction
• 2025-04-17 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-04-17 Referred to s/c on Telecommunications & Broadband by Speaker referral-committee
• 2025-05-07 Recalled from subcommittee
• 2025-05-07 Considered in formal meeting
• 2025-05-07 Committee substitute considered in committee substitution
• 2025-05-07 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-12 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
• 2025-05-12 Committee report distributed
• 2025-05-12 Committee report sent to Calendars
• 2025-05-16 Considered in Calendars
• 2025-05-20 Placed on General State Calendar
• 2025-05-20 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-05-20 Postponed
• 2025-05-21 Laid out as postponed business
• 2025-05-21 Amended amendment-passage
• 2025-05-21 Passed to 3rd reading as amended amendment-passage
• 2025-05-21 Record vote
• 2025-05-21 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-22 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-05-22 Passed passage
• 2025-05-22 Record vote
• 2025-05-22 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-23 House passage as amended reported amendment-passage
• 2025-05-25 House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
• 2025-05-25 Read
• 2025-05-25 Senate refuses to concur
• 2025-05-25 Senate requests conference committee
• 2025-05-25 Senate appoints conferees
• 2025-05-25 Senate refuses to concur-reported
• 2025-05-25 Senate requests conference committee-reported
• 2025-05-25 Senate appoints conferees-reported
• 2025-05-27 House grants request for conference committee
• 2025-05-27 House appoints conferees
• 2025-05-27 House grants request for conf comm-reported
• 2025-05-27 House appoints conferees-reported
• 2025-05-30 Conference committee report filed filing
• 2025-05-30 Conf. Comm. Report distributed
• 2025-05-31 Rules suspended
• 2025-05-31 Record vote
• 2025-05-31 Senate adopts conference committee report committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-31 Record vote
• 2025-05-31 Senate adopts conf. comm. report-reported
• 2025-06-01 House adopts conference committee report committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-01 Record vote
• 2025-06-01 House adopts conf. comm. report-reported
• 2025-06-02 Reported enrolled enrolled
• 2025-06-02 Signed in the Senate passage
• 2025-06-02 Signed in the House passage
• 2025-06-03 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-06-20 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2025-06-20 Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fd1ec7da-addd-4ea0-8ccf-8e41ff4dc012. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).