republic-os/legislation/us/states/tx/89r/sb-38.md

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Bill	Relating to the eviction from real property of certain persons not entitled to enter, occupy, or remain in possession of the premises.	Relating to the eviction from real property of certain persons not entitled to enter, occupy, or remain in possession of the premises.	us/states/tx	Texas Legislature	89R	SB 38	Texas SB 38 (89R)	bill	COMMISSION ON LAW ENFORCEMENT TEXAS (V1064) CONSTABLES (S2357) City Government--General (I0060) County Government--Employees/Officers (I0095) County Government--General (I0096) Courts--Civil Procedure (I0135) Courts--County & Statutory (I0115) Courts--Justice (I0110) Electronic Information Systems (I0311) Law Enforcement (I0510) Property Interests--Landlord & Tenant (I0610) Property Interests--Real Property (I0595) SHERIFFS (S1013) SUPREME COURT (V0311) TELECONFERENCING (S0039) VIDEOCONFERENCING (S0216)	enacted	Bettencourt Blanco Button Campbell Creighton Geren Hagenbuch Huffman Hughes Kolkhorst Leach Middleton Moody Parker Paxton Smithee Sparks	5	89	8	2025-03-14	2025-06-20	openstates	ocd-bill/a1130609-0b9c-477a-baa7-ca30adf6ae8f	ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00001_SB00099/SB 38.xml	56f6d379dffcf930141c066f7057c0e899086c2e3a0cb23d598c31960fdde612	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-tx

Texas SB 38 (89R) — Relating to the eviction from real property of certain persons not entitled to enter, occupy, or remain in possession of the premises.

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 — 21–8 (pass) · upper
• passage — 85–49 (pass) · lower
• passage — 21–8 (pass) · upper
• passage — 126–15 (pass) · lower
• adoption of Floor Amendment No. 1 — 0–0 (pass) · upper
• passage — 85–44 (pass) · lower
• passage — 23–8 (pass) · upper
• passage — 21–8 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bettencourt — primary (person)
• Blanco — primary (person)
• Button — primary (person)
• Campbell — primary (person)
• Creighton — primary (person)
• Geren — primary (person)
• Hagenbuch — primary (person)
• Huffman — primary (person)
• Hughes — primary (person)
• Kolkhorst — primary (person)
• Leach — primary (person)
• Middleton — primary (person)
• Moody — primary (person)
• Parker — primary (person)
• Paxton — primary (person)
• Smithee — primary (person)
• Sparks — primary (person)
• Ashby — cosponsor (person)
• Birdwell — cosponsor (person)
• Bonnen — cosponsor (person)
• Cain — cosponsor (person)
• Canales — cosponsor (person)
• Dean — cosponsor (person)
• Fairly — cosponsor (person)
• Isaac — cosponsor (person)
• Leo Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Lowe — cosponsor (person)
• Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
• Morales, Eddie — cosponsor (person)
• Slawson — cosponsor (person)
• Toth — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-14 Received by the Secretary of the Senate filing, introduction
• 2025-03-14 Filed filing
• 2025-03-17 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-03-17 Referred to State Affairs referral-committee
• 2025-03-24 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
• 2025-03-24 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-03-24 Testimony taken in committee
• 2025-03-24 Left pending in committee
• 2025-03-31 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-03-31 Vote taken in committee
• 2025-04-01 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-01 Committee report printed and distributed
• 2025-04-02 Co-author authorized
• 2025-04-09 Placed on intent calendar
• 2025-04-10 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
• 2025-04-10 Record vote
• 2025-04-10 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-10 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
• 2025-04-10 Amended amendment-passage
• 2025-04-10 Vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-04-10 Passed to engrossment as amended amendment-passage
• 2025-04-10 Record vote
• 2025-04-10 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
• 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 Statement(s) submitted
• 2025-04-10 Reported engrossed
• 2025-04-14 Received from the Senate introduction
• 2025-04-17 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-04-17 Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence referral-committee
• 2025-05-13 Considered in formal meeting
• 2025-05-13 Failed to receive affirmative vote in comm. committee-failure
• 2025-05-14 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-05-14 Vote reconsidered in committee
• 2025-05-14 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-19 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
• 2025-05-19 Committee report distributed
• 2025-05-20 Committee report sent to Calendars
• 2025-05-20 Considered in Calendars
• 2025-05-23 Placed on General State Calendar
• 2025-05-23 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-05-23 Amended amendment-passage
• 2025-05-23 Record vote
• 2025-05-23 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-23 Amended amendment-passage
• 2025-05-23 Record vote
• 2025-05-23 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-23 Amended amendment-passage
• 2025-05-23 Record vote
• 2025-05-23 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-23 Amended amendment-passage
• 2025-05-23 Record vote
• 2025-05-23 Amendment tabled deferral
• 2025-05-23 Record vote
• 2025-05-23 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-23 Amendment tabled deferral
• 2025-05-23 Record vote
• 2025-05-23 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-23 Amendment tabled deferral
• 2025-05-23 Record vote
• 2025-05-23 Amendment tabled deferral
• 2025-05-23 Record vote
• 2025-05-23 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-23 Amendment tabled deferral
• 2025-05-23 Record vote
• 2025-05-23 Passed to 3rd reading as amended amendment-passage
• 2025-05-23 Record vote
• 2025-05-23 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-24 Rules suspended
• 2025-05-24 Additional sponsor(s) authorized
• 2025-05-24 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-05-24 Point of order withdrawn withdrawal
• 2025-05-24 Passed passage
• 2025-05-24 Record vote
• 2025-05-24 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-25 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 concurs in House amendment(s)
• 2025-05-28 Record vote
• 2025-05-29 Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported
• 2025-05-29 Reported enrolled enrolled
• 2025-05-31 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 See remarks for effective date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a1130609-0b9c-477a-baa7-ca30adf6ae8f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).