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Bill Relating to seat belts on buses that transport children. Relating to seat belts on buses that transport children. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 89R SB 546 Texas SB 546 (89R)
bill
EDUCATION AGENCY
TEXAS (V9941)
Education--School Districts (I0220)
Minors--Health & Safety (I0533)
SCHOOL BUSES & SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS (S1346)
SEAT BELTS (S3021)
Vehicles & Traffic--Equipment (I0855)
Vehicles & Traffic--General (I0865)
enacted
Craddick
Menéndez
5 63 5 2024-12-06 2025-06-20 openstates ocd-bill/c3a6acc9-7696-488d-9450-59e6774794f5 ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00500_SB00599/SB 546.xml 3f06e0d302faf5169fe93431d5bca1a6f529760ba1539e80972b565cfeac6462 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-tx

Texas SB 546 (89R) — Relating to seat belts on buses that transport children.

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

  • Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that CSSB 546 be placed on its third reading and final passage. — 256 (pass) · upper
  • passage — 10438 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 00 (pass) · upper
  • passage — 238 (pass) · upper
  • passage — 238 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Craddick — primary (person)
  • Menéndez — primary (person)
  • Blanco — cosponsor (person)
  • Eckhardt — cosponsor (person)
  • West — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2024-12-06 Received by the Secretary of the Senate filing, introduction
  • 2024-12-06 Filed filing
  • 2025-02-03 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2025-02-03 Referred to Transportation referral-committee
  • 2025-03-26 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2025-03-26 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-03-26 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2025-03-26 Left pending in committee
  • 2025-04-09 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-04-09 Vote taken in committee
  • 2025-04-14 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-04-14 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2025-04-15 Co-author authorized
  • 2025-04-16 Placed on intent calendar
  • 2025-04-22 Co-author authorized
  • 2025-04-22 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
  • 2025-04-22 Record vote
  • 2025-04-22 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2025-04-22 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
  • 2025-04-22 Amended amendment-passage
  • 2025-04-22 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-04-22 Passed to engrossment as amended amendment-passage
  • 2025-04-22 Record vote
  • 2025-04-22 Three day rule suspended
  • 2025-04-22 Record vote
  • 2025-04-22 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2025-04-22 Passed passage
  • 2025-04-22 Record vote
  • 2025-04-22 Reported engrossed
  • 2025-04-23 Received from the Senate introduction
  • 2025-04-28 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2025-04-28 Referred to Transportation referral-committee
  • 2025-05-12 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-05-12 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
  • 2025-05-12 Left pending in committee
  • 2025-05-13 Considered in formal meeting
  • 2025-05-13 Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent referral-committee
  • 2025-05-13 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-05-15 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2025-05-15 Committee report distributed
  • 2025-05-16 Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
  • 2025-05-19 Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
  • 2025-05-21 Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
  • 2025-05-21 Withdrawn from calendar (contested) withdrawal
  • 2025-05-21 Returned to Local & Consent Calendars Comm.
  • 2025-05-21 Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
  • 2025-05-21 Transferred to Calendars Committee
  • 2025-05-22 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 Passed to 3rd reading
  • 2025-05-27 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2025-05-27 Passed passage
  • 2025-05-27 Record vote
  • 2025-05-27 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-05-27 House passage reported passage
  • 2025-05-27 Reported enrolled enrolled
  • 2025-05-28 Signed in the Senate passage
  • 2025-05-30 Signed in the House passage
  • 2025-05-30 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/c3a6acc9-7696-488d-9450-59e6774794f5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).