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Introduced
Nov 12, 2024
Passed Senate
Mar 12, 2025
Passed House
May 27, 2025
Signed into Law

SB 293

Texas Senate Bill

Relating to the discipline of judges by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, notice of certain reprimands, judicial compensation and related retirement benefits, and the reporting of certain judicial transparency information; authorizing an administrative penalty.

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executive • Jun 03, 2025: Sent to the Governor

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Mar 12, 2024, Senate

Senator Huffman moved that Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that CSSB 293 be placed on its third reading and final passage. The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1.

Mar 12, 2024, Senate

All Members are deemed to have voted "Yea" on the adoption of Floor Amendment No. 1.

Mar 12, 2024, Senate

The bill was read third time and was passed by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. (Same as previous roll call)

Mar 12, 2024, Senate

All Members are deemed to have voted "Yea" on the passage to engrossment except as follows

Jun 02, 2024, Senate

On motion of Senator Huffman, the Conference Committee Report was adopted by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

Jun 02, 2024, Senate

SB 293 (114 Yeas, 26 Nays, 4 Present, not voting)

May 26, 2025, House

CSSB 293, as amended, was passed to third reading by (Record 3561): 140 Yeas, 3 Nays, 2 Present, not voting.

YES: 140

NO: 3

ABSENT: 5

NOT VOTING: 2

Dustin Burrows
Landgraf(C)

Sources

https://journals.house.texas.gov/HJRNL/89R/HTML/89RDAY74FINAL.HTM

May 27, 2025, House

SB 293 was passed by (Record 3685): 128 Yeas, 4 Nays, 1 Present, not voting.

YES: 128

NO: 4

ABSENT: 17

NOT VOTING: 1

Dustin Burrows

Sources

https://journals.house.texas.gov/HJRNL/89R/HTML/89RDAY75FINAL.HTM

Jun 02, 2025, House

The motion to adopt the conference committee report on SB 293 prevailed by (Record 4171): 114 Yeas, 26 Nays, 4 Present, not voting.

YES: 114

ABSENT: 6

NOT VOTING: 4

Sources

https://journals.house.texas.gov/HJRNL/89R/HTML/89RDAY81FINAL.HTM

Jun 02, 2025, House

Representative Leach moved to suspend all necessary rules to take up and consider the conference committee report on SB 293. The motion prevailed by (Record 4170): 127 Yeas, 15 Nays, 1 Present, not voting.

YES: 127

NO: 15

ABSENT: 8

NOT VOTING: 1

Dustin Burrows

Sources

https://journals.house.texas.gov/HJRNL/89R/HTML/89RDAY81FINAL.HTM

Actions

Jun 03, 2025 | executive
- Sent to the Governor
Jun 02, 2025 | House
- Signed in the House
Jun 02, 2025 | Senate
- House adopts conf. comm. report-reported
- Reported enrolled
- Signed in the Senate
Jun 02, 2025 | House
- Senate adopts conf. comm. report-reported
- Conf. Comm. Report distributed
- Rules suspended
- Record vote RV#4170
- Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- House adopts conference committee report
- Record vote RV#4171
- Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- Reason for vote recorded in Journal
- Returned to the Senate for further action
Jun 02, 2025 | Senate
- Conference committee report filed
- Rules suspended
- Senate adopts conference committee report
- Record vote
Jun 01, 2025 | Senate
- House grants request for conf comm-reported
- House appoints conferees-reported
Jun 01, 2025 | House
- Returned from the Senate for further action
- Senate requests conference committee-reported
- Senate appoints conferees-reported
- House grants request for conference committee
- House appoints conferees
Jun 01, 2025 | Senate
- Senate requests conference committee
- Senate appoints conferees
- Returned to the House for further action
May 31, 2025 | House
- Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported See SR 695
May 30, 2025 | Senate
- House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
- Read
- Point of order
- Point of order sustained
- Senate concurs in House amendment(s) See SR 695
May 27, 2025 | Senate
- House passage as amended reported
May 27, 2025 | House
- Read 3rd time
- Postponed 5/27/25 11:45 AM
- Laid out as postponed business
- Passed
- Record vote RV#3685
- Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
May 26, 2025 | House
- Read 2nd time
- Amended 1-Leach
- Record vote RV#3559
- Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- Amended 2-Leach
- Record vote RV#3560
- Passed to 3rd reading as amended
- Record vote RV#3561
- Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
May 24, 2025 | House
- Placed on General State Calendar
May 22, 2025 | House
- Considered in Calendars
May 21, 2025 | House
- Committee report sent to Calendars
May 20, 2025 | House
- Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- Committee report distributed
May 14, 2025 | House
- Considered in public hearing
- Committee substitute considered in committee
- Reported favorably as substituted
Apr 09, 2025 | House
- Read first time
- Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence
Mar 13, 2025 | House
- Received from the Senate
Mar 12, 2025 | Senate
- Co-author authorized
- Rules suspended-Constitutional 60-Day
- Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- Vote recorded in Journal
- Read 2nd time
- Amendment(s) offered FA1 Huffman
- Amended
- Vote recorded in Journal
- Passed to engrossment as amended
- Vote recorded in Journal
- Three day rule suspended
- Record vote
- Read 3rd time
- Passed
- Record vote
- Statement(s) submitted
- Reported engrossed
Mar 11, 2025 | Senate
- Placed on intent calendar
- Corrected comm. report printed & distributed
Mar 10, 2025 | Senate
- Reported favorably as substituted
- Committee report printed and distributed
Mar 05, 2025 | Senate
- Scheduled for public hearing on . . . 03/05/2025
- Considered in public hearing
- Testimony taken in committee
- Vote taken in committee
Feb 03, 2025 | Senate
- Read first time
- Referred to Finance
Nov 12, 2024 | Senate
- Received by the Secretary of the Senate
- Filed

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https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=89R&Bill=SB293