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HB3257   Signed by the Governor
Referred to House Agriculture & Livestock Committee, chaired by a Republican
Referred to Senate Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee, chaired by a Republican
Caption: Relating to the confidentiality of certain biosecurity and other sensitive information shared with the Texas Animal Health Commission.
Republican Bill, authored by Kacal
Co-authors:
Sponsors: Kolkhorst
Co-sponsors:

View at Texas Legislature Online

Thu 3/2/2023


(H) Filed
(H) Kyle Kacal signed onto the bill as Author
 

Wed 3/15/2023


(H) Referred to the House Agriculture & Livestock Committee, chaired by a Republican
 

Wed 4/19/2023


(H) Considered in public hearing
(H) House Agriculture & Livestock Committee met and decided to leave this bill pending without objection.
 

Thu 4/20/2023


(H) House Agriculture & Livestock Committee met and voted for passage. Ayes (Cain; Anderson; Bernal; Kitzman; Rosenthal; Thimesch; Wilson) Absents (Goodwin; Harris, Cody)
 

Tue 5/9/2023


(H) Record Vote No. 1308 (Considered on second reading on the previous legislative day on the local, consent, and resolutions calendar were laid before the house, read third time, and passed.)


This is a Local and Consent Bill

RV#1308: Yeas 140 (R 80, D 60) - Nays 2 (R 2, D 0)
HB3257 was "bundled" with many other bills and passed.
View in House Legislative Journal

Yea - Allen; Allison; Anchía; Anderson; Ashby; Bailes; Bell, C.; Bell, K.; Bernal; Bhojani; Bonnen; Bowers; Bryant; Buckley; Bucy; Bumgarner; Burns; Burrows; Button; Cain; Campos; Canales; Capriglione; Clardy; Cole; Collier; Cook; Cortez; Craddick; Cunningham; Darby; Dean; DeAyala; Dorazio; Dutton; Flores; Frank; Frazier; Gamez; Gates; Gerdes; Gervin-Hawkins; Goldman; González, J.; González, M.; Goodwin; Guerra; Guillen; Harless; Harris, C. E.; Harris, C. J.; Harrison; Hayes; Hefner; Hernandez; Herrero; Hinojosa; Holland; Howard; Hull; Hunter; Isaac; Jetton; Johnson, A.; Johnson, J. D.; Johnson, J. E.; Jones, J.; Jones, V.; Kacal; King, K.; King, T.; Kitzman; Klick; Kuempel; Lalani; Lambert; Landgraf; Leach; Leo-Wilson; Longoria; Lopez, J.; Lopez, R.; Lozano; Lujan; Manuel; Martinez; Martinez Fischer; Metcalf; Meyer; Meza; Moody; Morales Shaw; Morales, C.; Morales, E.; Morrison; Muñoz; Murr; Neave Criado; Noble; Oliverson; Ordaz; Orr; Ortega; Paul; Perez; Plesa; Price; Ramos; Raney; Raymond; Rogers; Romero; Rose; Rosenthal; Schaefer; Schatzline; Schofield; Shaheen; Shine; Slawson; Smith; Smithee; Spiller; Swanson; Talarico; Tepper; Thierry; Thimesch; Thompson, E.; Thompson, S.; Toth; Troxclair; Turner; VanDeaver; Vasut; Vo; Walle; Wilson; Wu; Zwiener

Registered No - ; Patterson; Stucky

(Registering "No" makes no change on the passage of this bill.)

Please note: the following statements by legislators do not affect the vote count that was recorded.

Tinderholt: "When Record No. 1308 was taken, I was in the house but away from my desk. I would have voted yes." (view other statements of vote for this Rep)


 

Thu 5/11/2023


(S) Referred to the Senate Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee, chaired by a Republican
 

Fri 5/19/2023


(S) Considered in public hearing
 

Wed 5/24/2023


(S) Record Vote (Senate Third Reading)

Senate Vote: Yeas 31 (R 19, D 12) - Nays 0 (R 0, D 0)

Yea - Alvarado; Bettencourt; Birdwell; Blanco; Campbell; Creighton; Eckhardt; Flores; Gutierrez; Hall; Hancock; Hinojosa; Huffman; Hughes; Johnson; King; Kolkhorst; LaMantia; Menéndez; Middleton; Miles; Nichols; Parker; Paxton; Perry; Schwertner; Sparks; Springer; West; Whitmire; Zaffirini

 

Sat 5/27/2023


(H) Signed in the House
 

Mon 5/29/2023


(S) Signed in the Senate


Lobbying Against/For/On This Bill

For

(Wed 4/19/2023) Testifying before House Agriculture & Livestock as Davis, Joy for Texas Farm Bureau Insurance
(Wed 4/19/2023) Testifying before House Agriculture & Livestock as Essler, JC for Texas Poultry Federation
(Wed 4/19/2023) Testifying before House Agriculture & Livestock as Turley, Darren for Texas Association of Dairymen
(Wed 4/19/2023) Testifying before House Agriculture & Livestock as Winegarner, Josh for self (with Texas Cattle Feeders Association)
(Wed 4/19/2023) Registering before House Agriculture & Livestock as Hamilton, Melissa for Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association
(Wed 4/19/2023) Registering before House Agriculture & Livestock as Saenz, Jenn for Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association
 

On

(Wed 4/19/2023) Testifying before House Agriculture & Livestock as Coggeshall, Jeanine for Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC)



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