republic-os/legislation/us/states/tx/89r/sb-1566.md

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Bill	Relating to connection of utilities by certain entities in certain subdivisions formerly located in a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction.	Relating to connection of utilities by certain entities in certain subdivisions formerly located in a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction.	us/states/tx	Texas Legislature	89R	SB 1566	Texas SB 1566 (89R)	bill	City Government--Annexation (I0063) City Government--Utilities (I0068) Utilities--General (I0830)	enacted	Bettencourt Darby	5	78	5	2025-02-24	2025-06-20	openstates	ocd-bill/5185dcaf-96d0-447d-a971-145d41ddbf34	ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB01500_SB01599/SB 1566.xml	1c27542e2d15fcdae1b17366dda5027ac11a293d0de124401d2418ea8541d581	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-tx

Texas SB 1566 (89R) — Relating to connection of utilities by certain entities in certain subdivisions formerly located in a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction.

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 — 31–0 (pass) · upper
• passage — 140–2 (pass) · lower
• passage — 138–1 (pass) · lower
• passage — 132–0 (pass) · lower
• passage — 132–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bettencourt — primary (person)
• Darby — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-24 Received by the Secretary of the Senate filing, introduction
• 2025-02-24 Filed filing
• 2025-03-06 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-03-06 Referred to Local Government referral-committee
• 2025-03-17 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
• 2025-03-17 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-03-17 Testimony taken in committee
• 2025-03-17 Left pending in committee
• 2025-03-20 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-03-20 Vote taken in committee
• 2025-03-24 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-24 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
• 2025-03-24 Committee report printed and distributed
• 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
• 2025-04-22 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
• 2025-05-14 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
• 2025-05-14 Committee report distributed
• 2025-05-14 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 Passed to 3rd reading
• 2025-05-20 Record vote
• 2025-05-21 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-05-21 Postponed
• 2025-05-22 Laid out as postponed business
• 2025-05-22 Postponed
• 2025-05-22 Laid out as postponed business
• 2025-05-22 Amended amendment-passage
• 2025-05-22 Record vote
• 2025-05-22 Passed as amended amendment-passage, 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
• 2025-05-28 House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
• 2025-05-28 Read
• 2025-05-28 Senate refuses to concur
• 2025-05-28 Senate requests conference committee
• 2025-05-28 Senate appoints conferees
• 2025-05-28 Senate refuses to concur-reported
• 2025-05-28 Senate requests conference committee-reported
• 2025-05-28 Senate appoints conferees-reported
• 2025-05-29 House grants request for conference committee
• 2025-05-29 House appoints conferees
• 2025-05-29 House grants request for conf comm-reported
• 2025-05-29 House appoints conferees-reported
• 2025-05-30 Conference committee report filed filing
• 2025-05-30 Conf. Comm. Report distributed
• 2025-05-31 House adopts conference committee report committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-31 Record vote
• 2025-05-31 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-31 House adopts conf. comm. report-reported
• 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 Reported enrolled enrolled
• 2025-06-01 Signed in the Senate passage
• 2025-06-02 Signed in the House passage
• 2025-06-02 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-06-20 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2025-06-20 Effective immediately became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5185dcaf-96d0-447d-a971-145d41ddbf34. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).