republic-os/legislation/us/states/tx/89r/sb-1596.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Relating to the prohibition of short-barrel firearms.	Relating to the prohibition of short-barrel firearms.	us/states/tx	Texas Legislature	89R	SB 1596	Texas SB 1596 (89R)	bill	Crimes--Miscellaneous (I0200) Weapons (I0887)	enacted	Bumgarner Hagenbuch Hayes Metcalf Pierson Virdell	5	62	7	2025-02-24	2025-06-20	openstates	ocd-bill/48f1e80e-f863-4bb3-ba61-fbb5386993bc	ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB01500_SB01599/SB 1596.xml	19f3af4b0868b21c5a93576b0ebc970eceef569c988dd21e8aa439859c42a613	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-tx

Texas SB 1596 (89R) — Relating to the prohibition of short-barrel firearms.

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 — 21–10 (pass) · upper
• other — 10–21 (fail) · upper
• passage — 88–54 (pass) · lower
• passage — 21–10 (pass) · upper
• passage — 21–10 (pass) · upper
• passage — 87–52 (pass) · lower
• passage — 109–26 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bumgarner — primary (person)
• Hagenbuch — primary (person)
• Hayes — primary (person)
• Metcalf — primary (person)
• Pierson — primary (person)
• Virdell — primary (person)
• Ashby — cosponsor (person)
• Bell, Keith — cosponsor (person)
• Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
• Curry — cosponsor (person)
• DeAyala — cosponsor (person)
• Dorazio — cosponsor (person)
• Gerdes — cosponsor (person)
• Harris — cosponsor (person)
• Harrison — cosponsor (person)
• Hickland — cosponsor (person)
• Holt — cosponsor (person)
• Hopper — cosponsor (person)
• Isaac — cosponsor (person)
• Kerwin — cosponsor (person)
• Kitzman — cosponsor (person)
• Leo Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Louderback — cosponsor (person)
• Lujan — cosponsor (person)
• Luther — cosponsor (person)
• McLaughlin — cosponsor (person)
• Money — cosponsor (person)
• Noble — cosponsor (person)
• Olcott — cosponsor (person)
• Paul — cosponsor (person)
• Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Schatzline — cosponsor (person)
• Schoolcraft — cosponsor (person)
• Slawson — cosponsor (person)
• Spiller — cosponsor (person)
• Swanson — cosponsor (person)
• Tepper — cosponsor (person)
• Toth — cosponsor (person)
• Vasut — cosponsor (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
• 2025-03-10 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-03-10 Referred to State Affairs referral-committee
• 2025-03-13 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
• 2025-03-13 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-03-13 Testimony taken in committee
• 2025-03-13 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 Committee report printed and distributed
• 2025-03-25 Placed on intent calendar
• 2025-04-14 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
• 2025-04-14 Record vote
• 2025-04-14 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-14 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
• 2025-04-14 Amendment fails of adoption amendment-failure
• 2025-04-14 Record vote
• 2025-04-14 Passed to engrossment
• 2025-04-14 Record vote
• 2025-04-16 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
• 2025-04-16 Record vote
• 2025-04-16 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-16 Passed passage
• 2025-04-16 Record vote
• 2025-04-16 Reported engrossed
• 2025-04-17 Received from the Senate introduction
• 2025-04-22 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-04-22 Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs referral-committee
• 2025-04-30 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-04-30 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-07 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
• 2025-05-07 Committee report distributed
• 2025-05-08 Committee report sent to Calendars
• 2025-05-22 Considered in Calendars
• 2025-05-24 Placed on General State Calendar
• 2025-05-27 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-05-27 Point of order withdrawn withdrawal
• 2025-05-27 Amendment tabled deferral
• 2025-05-27 Record vote
• 2025-05-27 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-27 Passed to 3rd reading
• 2025-05-27 Record vote
• 2025-05-27 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-27 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-05-27 Postponed
• 2025-05-27 Record vote
• 2025-05-27 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-28 Rules suspended
• 2025-05-28 Additional sponsor(s) authorized
• 2025-05-28 Laid out as postponed business
• 2025-05-28 Passed passage
• 2025-05-28 Record vote
• 2025-05-28 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-28 House passage reported passage
• 2025-05-28 Reported enrolled enrolled
• 2025-05-30 Signed in the Senate passage
• 2025-06-01 Signed in the House passage
• 2025-06-01 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/48f1e80e-f863-4bb3-ba61-fbb5386993bc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).