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Bill Relating to the attorney general's defense of a district or county attorney against certain lawsuits in federal court. Relating to the attorney general's defense of a district or county attorney against certain lawsuits in federal court. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 89R SB 888 Texas SB 888 (89R)
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ATTORNEY GENERAL (V2811)
Courts--General (I0160)
Courts--Prosecuting Attorneys (I0165)
Lawyers (I0515)
enacted
Kolkhorst
Leach
5 51 2 2025-01-23 2025-05-24 openstates ocd-bill/1aef81f4-0e76-46c8-bc2a-226ae3394bbe ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00800_SB00899/SB 888.xml bb23a90bb90332bf0a3235fe4637c592eed39d59bd3f2dca7027015297a5af33 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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us-tx

Texas SB 888 (89R) — Relating to the attorney general's defense of a district or county attorney against certain lawsuits in federal court.

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 — 1347 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 12710 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Kolkhorst — primary (person)
  • Leach — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-01-23 Received by the Secretary of the Senate filing, introduction
  • 2025-01-23 Filed filing
  • 2025-02-13 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2025-02-13 Referred to State Affairs referral-committee
  • 2025-02-27 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2025-02-27 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-02-27 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2025-02-27 Left pending in committee
  • 2025-03-03 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-03-03 Vote taken in committee
  • 2025-03-05 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-03-05 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
  • 2025-03-05 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2025-04-10 Placed on local & uncontested calendar
  • 2025-04-10 Laid before the Senate receipt
  • 2025-04-10 Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment reading-2
  • 2025-04-10 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-04-10 Three day rule suspended
  • 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 Reported engrossed
  • 2025-04-14 Received from the Senate introduction
  • 2025-04-17 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2025-04-17 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
  • 2025-05-06 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2025-05-06 Committee report distributed
  • 2025-05-06 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2025-05-07 Laid out in lieu of companion
  • 2025-05-07 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2025-05-07 Passed to 3rd reading
  • 2025-05-07 Record vote
  • 2025-05-07 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-05-08 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2025-05-08 Postponed
  • 2025-05-08 Laid out as postponed business
  • 2025-05-08 Postponed
  • 2025-05-09 Laid out as postponed business
  • 2025-05-09 Passed passage
  • 2025-05-09 Record vote
  • 2025-05-09 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-05-12 House passage reported passage
  • 2025-05-12 Reported enrolled enrolled
  • 2025-05-13 Signed in the Senate passage
  • 2025-05-13 Signed in the House passage
  • 2025-05-13 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
  • 2025-05-24 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2025-05-24 Effective on 9/1/25 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1aef81f4-0e76-46c8-bc2a-226ae3394bbe. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).