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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 a financing mechanism allowing electric utilities to obtain recovery of costs associated with a weather-related event or other natural disaster; granting authority to issue bonds. Relating to a financing mechanism allowing electric utilities to obtain recovery of costs associated with a weather-related event or other natural disaster; granting authority to issue bonds. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 89R SB 1963 Texas SB 1963 (89R)
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BONDS (S6060)
Disaster Preparedness & Relief (I0211)
PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION (V0023)
Utilities--Electric (I0831)
enacted
Creighton
Metcalf
5 47 4 2025-03-05 2025-05-19 openstates ocd-bill/15e36e31-799d-4b96-800a-dfde1208554a ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB01900_SB01999/SB 1963.xml 076228b8fc62081046faafb585c045217868372b7cea5d7005703217331c4952 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-tx

Texas SB 1963 (89R) — Relating to a financing mechanism allowing electric utilities to obtain recovery of costs associated with a weather-related event or other natural disaster; granting authority to issue bonds.

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 — 274 (pass) · upper
  • passage — 11720 (pass) · lower
  • Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that SB 1963 be placed on its third reading and final passage. — 274 (pass) · upper
  • passage — 9924 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Creighton — primary (person)
  • Metcalf — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-03-05 Received by the Secretary of the Senate filing, introduction
  • 2025-03-05 Filed filing
  • 2025-03-17 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2025-03-17 Referred to Business & Commerce referral-committee
  • 2025-04-03 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2025-04-03 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-04-03 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2025-04-03 Left pending in committee
  • 2025-04-08 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-04-08 Vote taken in committee
  • 2025-04-09 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-04-09 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2025-04-22 Placed on intent calendar
  • 2025-04-23 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
  • 2025-04-23 Record vote
  • 2025-04-23 Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment reading-2
  • 2025-04-23 Record vote
  • 2025-04-23 Three day rule suspended
  • 2025-04-23 Record vote
  • 2025-04-23 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2025-04-23 Passed passage
  • 2025-04-23 Record vote
  • 2025-04-23 Reported engrossed
  • 2025-04-24 Received from the Senate introduction
  • 2025-04-28 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2025-04-28 Referred to State Affairs referral-committee
  • 2025-04-30 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-04-30 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-05-01 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2025-05-01 Committee report distributed
  • 2025-05-01 Laid out in lieu of companion
  • 2025-05-01 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2025-05-01 Passed to 3rd reading
  • 2025-05-01 Record vote
  • 2025-05-01 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-05-01 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2025-05-02 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2025-05-02 Passed passage
  • 2025-05-02 Record vote
  • 2025-05-02 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-05-05 House passage reported passage
  • 2025-05-05 Reported enrolled enrolled
  • 2025-05-07 Signed in the Senate passage
  • 2025-05-07 Signed in the House passage
  • 2025-05-07 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
  • 2025-05-19 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2025-05-19 Effective on 9/1/25 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/15e36e31-799d-4b96-800a-dfde1208554a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).