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type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to prohibiting insurers from requiring the tying of residential property and personal automobile insurance policies."
description: "Relating to prohibiting insurers from requiring the tying of residential property and personal automobile insurance policies."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "89R"
identifier: "SB 213"
citation: "Texas SB 213 (89R)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance--Fire", "Allied Lines & Home (I0430)", "Insurance--General (I0445)", "Insurance--Motor Vehicles (I0435)", "Insurance--Property & Casualty (I0442)", "Vehicles & Traffic--Insurance/Financial Responsibility (I0850)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dean", "West"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 72
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-11-12"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7511624b-ba8a-4a22-96a3-d4fdf35b28ad"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00200_SB00299/SB 213.xml"
source_hash: "01cb47ca79681684e85e6f1da077af87d889578c0c6e7c33427edc5921991bac"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tx"]
---
# Texas SB 213 (89R) — Relating to prohibiting insurers from requiring the tying of residential property and personal automobile insurance policies.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00213I.HTM)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00213E.HTM)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00213H.HTM)
4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00213S.HTM)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00213F.HTM)
## Votes
- Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that CSSB 213 be placed on its third reading and final passage. — **300** (pass) · upper
- passage — **310** (pass) · upper
- passage — **300** (pass) · upper
- passage — **1411** (pass) · lower
- adoption of Floor Amendment No. 1 on Third Reading — **00** (pass) · upper
- passage — **1451** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Dean — primary (person)
- West — primary (person)
- Alvarado — cosponsor (person)
- Bettencourt — cosponsor (person)
- Cook — cosponsor (person)
- Eckhardt — cosponsor (person)
- Flores — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy" — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kolkhorst — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Paxton — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-11-12** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing, introduction`
- **2024-11-12** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-03** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Referred to Business & Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19** Co-author authorized
- **2025-02-20** Co-author authorized
- **2025-02-25** Co-author authorized
- **2025-02-26** Co-author authorized
- **2025-03-05** Co-author authorized
- **2025-03-11** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2025-03-11** Considered in public hearing
- **2025-03-11** Testimony taken in committee
- **2025-03-11** Left pending in committee
- **2025-03-18** Considered in public hearing
- **2025-03-18** Vote taken in committee
- **2025-03-19** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-19** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2025-03-19** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2025-03-20** Co-author authorized
- **2025-03-20** Placed on intent calendar
- **2025-03-24** Not again placed on intent calendar
- **2025-03-25** Placed on intent calendar
- **2025-03-26** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- **2025-03-26** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-03-26** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment `reading-2`
- **2025-03-26** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-03-26** Three day rule suspended
- **2025-03-26** Record vote
- **2025-03-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-26** Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-26** Record vote
- **2025-03-26** Reported engrossed
- **2025-03-27** Vote reconsidered
- **2025-03-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-27** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-03-27** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-27** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-03-27** Passed as amended `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2025-03-27** Record vote
- **2025-03-27** Reported engrossed
- **2025-03-31** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2025-04-22** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-22** Referred to Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30** Considered in public hearing
- **2025-04-30** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2025-04-30** Left pending in committee
- **2025-05-05** Considered in formal meeting
- **2025-05-05** Committee substitute considered in committee `substitution`
- **2025-05-05** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-10** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
- **2025-05-10** Committee report distributed
- **2025-05-10** 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** Passed `passage`
- **2025-05-21** Record vote
- **2025-05-21** House passage as amended reported `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-26** House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
- **2025-05-26** Read
- **2025-05-26** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
- **2025-05-26** Record vote
- **2025-05-26** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported
- **2025-05-26** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-27** Signed in the Senate `passage`
- **2025-05-28** Signed in the House `passage`
- **2025-05-28** 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7511624b-ba8a-4a22-96a3-d4fdf35b28ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).