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Bill Relating to the establishment and use of a written electronic communications system accessible to the public by certain municipal entities. Relating to the establishment and use of a written electronic communications system accessible to the public by certain municipal entities. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 89R SB 710 Texas SB 710 (89R)
bill
City Government--Land Use & Zoning (I0064)
EMAIL & ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS (S0321)
Electronic Information Systems (I0311)
INTERNET (S0130)
Open Meetings (I0546)
enacted
Bucy
Eckhardt
5 57 3 2025-01-06 2025-06-20 openstates ocd-bill/ecb2451e-9e27-4308-a1df-3f3a0a7bbede ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00700_SB00799/SB 710.xml 3aaef26d9764d7c3e5a8e6da338420bab4025c73ca0e9ad098a3925ee5c5be30 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-tx

Texas SB 710 (89R) — Relating to the establishment and use of a written electronic communications system accessible to the public by certain municipal entities.

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 — 11724 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 310 (pass) · upper
  • Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that SB 710 be placed on its third reading and final passage. — 300 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Bucy — primary (person)
  • Eckhardt — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-01-06 Received by the Secretary of the Senate filing, introduction
  • 2025-01-06 Filed filing
  • 2025-02-07 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2025-02-07 Referred to Business & Commerce referral-committee
  • 2025-02-12 Rereferred to committee
  • 2025-02-12 Referred to Local Government referral-committee
  • 2025-03-17 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2025-03-17 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-03-17 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2025-03-17 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 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
  • 2025-03-24 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2025-03-25 Placed on intent calendar
  • 2025-03-27 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
  • 2025-03-27 Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment reading-2
  • 2025-03-27 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-03-27 Three day rule suspended
  • 2025-03-27 Record vote
  • 2025-03-27 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2025-03-27 Passed passage
  • 2025-03-27 Record vote
  • 2025-03-27 Reported engrossed
  • 2025-03-31 Received from the Senate introduction
  • 2025-04-09 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2025-04-09 Referred to Intergovernmental Affairs referral-committee
  • 2025-05-21 Considered in formal meeting
  • 2025-05-21 Committee substitute considered in committee substitution
  • 2025-05-21 Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent referral-committee
  • 2025-05-21 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-05-24 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2025-05-24 Committee report distributed
  • 2025-05-25 Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
  • 2025-05-27 Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
  • 2025-05-28 Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
  • 2025-05-28 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2025-05-28 Passed to 3rd reading
  • 2025-05-28 Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-05-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2025-05-28 Passed passage
  • 2025-05-28 Record vote
  • 2025-05-28 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-05-28 Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-05-29 House passage as amended reported amendment-passage
  • 2025-05-30 House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
  • 2025-05-30 Read
  • 2025-05-30 Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
  • 2025-05-30 Record vote
  • 2025-05-31 Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported
  • 2025-05-31 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 Effective on 9/1/25 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ecb2451e-9e27-4308-a1df-3f3a0a7bbede. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).