Jan 29, 2025
(S) Bettencourt signed onto the bill as Author (S) Received by the Secretary of the Senate (S) Filed Feb 13, 2025
(S) Read first time (S) Referred to the Senate Business & Commerce, chaired by a Republican Apr 3, 2025
(S) Scheduled for public hearing on . . . (S) Considered in public hearing (S) Testimony taken in committee (S) Left pending in committee Apr 22, 2025
(S) Considered in public hearing (S) Vote taken in committee (S) Reported favorably w/o amendments May 6, 2025
(S) Placed on intent calendar May 7, 2025
(S) Rules suspended-Regular order of business (S) Record vote (S) Read 2nd time (S) Amendment(s) offered 20250507_SB986_FA1: Yea 19 (R 17 , D 2 ) - Nay 8 (R 0 , D 8 )
Yea - A. Hinojosa Bettencourt Birdwell Blanco Campbell Flores Hagenbuch Hall Hancock Hughes J. Hinojosa King Middleton Nichols Parker Paxton Perry Schwertner Sparks
Nay - Alvarado Cook Eckhardt Johnson Menendez Miles West Zaffirini
Absent - Creighton Gutierrez Huffman Kolkhorst
You can view which lawmakers have received money from a specific PACAFSCME Texas Correctional Officers PAC Allen Boone Humphries Robinson, LLP American Electric Power Texas PAC Arnold & Itkin LLP Ashby Signature Homes LLC Associated General Contractors of Texas PAC Associated Republicans of Texas AT&T PAC Austin Fire Fighters PAC Baron & Budd, P.C. Barry and Lana Andrews Revocable Trust Beer Alliance of Texas PAC Blackridge PAC BNSF Railway Company RAILPAC Border Health PAC Brent Hagenbuch Campaign BSD NIHUL LLC Charles Butt Public Education PAC Charter Communications, Inc. Texas PAC Charter Schools Now PAC Chevron Employees Political Action Committee - Che Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Coalition Por/For Texas PAC Craig Goldman Campaign CVS Health PAC Dade Phelan Campaign Dan Patrick Campaign Dealon, LLC DEC PAC Defend Rural Texas PAC Defend Texas Liberty PAC Energy Transfer Partners Texas PAC Enterprise Products Partners Texas PAC Family Empowerment Coalition PAC Farmers Employee & Agent PAC of Texas Fasken Management, LLC FLD Interests Foley & Lardner LLP Texas Campaign Fund Fort Worth Firefighters Committee for Responsible Friends of the University PAC Friends of UT Southwestern Medical Center PAC Greg Abbott Campaign Gulf States Toyota PAC HCA Texas Good Government Fund Hillco PAC HOMEPAC (Texas Association of Builders) Houston Firefighters Union PAC Houston Police Officers' Union PAC HS Law PAC ILIAC, LLC Independent Bankers Association of Texas PAC Independent Insurance Agents of Texas PAC International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Kevin Eltife Campaign Kevin Sparks Campaign Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas Killam LTD Laminack, Pirtle & Martines Laredo Political Action Committee Leaders We Deserve PAC Legacy 44 Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP Locke Lord LLP LUMPAC Lyondell Chemical Company PAC Mansfield Business Management, LLC Marchant Good Government Fund McGuire Revocable Trust Metropolitan Anesthesia PAC Mission Business PAC NRG Energy Inc. Political Action Committee NuStar Energy PAC Oncor PAC Penn Entertainment Inc PAC Phillips 66 PAC Pioneer Natural Resources PAC Political Action Committee of Winstead PC Populus Financial Group, Inc. Texas PAC Protect and Serve Texas PAC Provider Coalition For Care PAC Public Blueprint LLC Q PAC Republican State Leadership Committee PAC Ryan Texas PAC Schwertner COH Campaign Account Senfronia Thompson Campaign Skyview Development LLC Tenet Healthcare Corporation Political Action Comm Texans for Dan Patrick Texans for Greg Abbott Texans for Lawsuit Reform Texans For Responsible Government PAC Texans United for a Conservative Majority PAC Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Texas Apartment Association (TAA PAC) Texas Association of Realtors PAC Texas Automobile Dealers Assocation Pac Texas Bail PAC Texas Bankers Association Bank PAC Texas Beverage Alliance of the Texas Package Store Texas Building Branch Associated General Contracto Texas Consumer Lenders PAC Texas Cornerstone Credit Union League PAC Texas Deer Association PAC Texas Defense PAC Texas Dental Association PAC (DenPAC) Texas Diamond Back Energy PAC Texas Farm Bureau Ag Fund PAC Texas Food & Fuel Association PAC Texas Hospital Association PAC (HOSPAC) Texas House Republican Caucus PAC Texas Impact, a CRH PAC Texas Land Developers Association PAC Texas Land Title Association PAC Texas Medical Association PAC (TEXPAC) Texas Mortgage Bankers Association PAC Texas Motor Transportation Association TRUCKPAC Texas Nurse Practitioners PAC Texas Oil and Gas Association PAC Texas Optometric PAC Texas Organizing Project PAC Texas Restaurant Association PAC Texas Sands PAC Texas Society Of Anesthesiologists PAC (TSAPAC) Texas Society of Architects Committee Texas Society of Certified Accountants PAC (TXCPA) Texas State Teachers Association PAC Texas Tech Alumni and Friends PAC (TECHPAC) Texas Trial Lawyers Association PAC (TTLA) The Chickasaw Nation The Dugaboy Investment Trust The Texas State University System PAC Todd A. Hunter Campaign TX Bitcoin PAC UA Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 286 PAC Union Pacific Corp PAC United Food & Commercial Workers International Uni United Parcel Service PAC United Services Automobile Industry Employee PAC University of Houston PAC US Anesthesia Partners of Texas PAC USAA Employee PAC Valero Energy Corp PAC Verizon Communications Inc. Good Government Club - Vistra Employee PAC of Vistra Corp. WalMart Inc. PAC for Responsible Government Wholesale Beer Distrbutors PAC Will Metcalf Campaign (S) Amended (S) Record vote (S) Passed to engrossment as amended 20250507_SB986_E: Yea 17 (R 15 , D 2 ) - Nay 10 (R 2 , D 8 )
Yea - A. Hinojosa Bettencourt Birdwell Blanco Campbell Flores Hagenbuch Hall J. Hinojosa King Middleton Nichols Parker Paxton Perry Schwertner Sparks
Nay - Alvarado Cook Eckhardt Hancock Hughes Johnson Menendez Miles West Zaffirini
Absent - Creighton Gutierrez Huffman Kolkhorst
You can view which lawmakers have received money from a specific PACAFSCME Texas Correctional Officers PAC Allen Boone Humphries Robinson, LLP American Electric Power Texas PAC Arnold & Itkin LLP Ashby Signature Homes LLC Associated General Contractors of Texas PAC Associated Republicans of Texas AT&T PAC Austin Fire Fighters PAC Baron & Budd, P.C. Barry and Lana Andrews Revocable Trust Beer Alliance of Texas PAC Blackridge PAC BNSF Railway Company RAILPAC Border Health PAC Brent Hagenbuch Campaign BSD NIHUL LLC Charles Butt Public Education PAC Charter Communications, Inc. Texas PAC Charter Schools Now PAC Chevron Employees Political Action Committee - Che Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Coalition Por/For Texas PAC Craig Goldman Campaign CVS Health PAC Dade Phelan Campaign Dan Patrick Campaign Dealon, LLC DEC PAC Defend Rural Texas PAC Defend Texas Liberty PAC Energy Transfer Partners Texas PAC Enterprise Products Partners Texas PAC Family Empowerment Coalition PAC Farmers Employee & Agent PAC of Texas Fasken Management, LLC FLD Interests Foley & Lardner LLP Texas Campaign Fund Fort Worth Firefighters Committee for Responsible Friends of the University PAC Friends of UT Southwestern Medical Center PAC Greg Abbott Campaign Gulf States Toyota PAC HCA Texas Good Government Fund Hillco PAC HOMEPAC (Texas Association of Builders) Houston Firefighters Union PAC Houston Police Officers' Union PAC HS Law PAC ILIAC, LLC Independent Bankers Association of Texas PAC Independent Insurance Agents of Texas PAC International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Kevin Eltife Campaign Kevin Sparks Campaign Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas Killam LTD Laminack, Pirtle & Martines Laredo Political Action Committee Leaders We Deserve PAC Legacy 44 Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP Locke Lord LLP LUMPAC Lyondell Chemical Company PAC Mansfield Business Management, LLC Marchant Good Government Fund McGuire Revocable Trust Metropolitan Anesthesia PAC Mission Business PAC NRG Energy Inc. Political Action Committee NuStar Energy PAC Oncor PAC Penn Entertainment Inc PAC Phillips 66 PAC Pioneer Natural Resources PAC Political Action Committee of Winstead PC Populus Financial Group, Inc. Texas PAC Protect and Serve Texas PAC Provider Coalition For Care PAC Public Blueprint LLC Q PAC Republican State Leadership Committee PAC Ryan Texas PAC Schwertner COH Campaign Account Senfronia Thompson Campaign Skyview Development LLC Tenet Healthcare Corporation Political Action Comm Texans for Dan Patrick Texans for Greg Abbott Texans for Lawsuit Reform Texans For Responsible Government PAC Texans United for a Conservative Majority PAC Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Texas Apartment Association (TAA PAC) Texas Association of Realtors PAC Texas Automobile Dealers Assocation Pac Texas Bail PAC Texas Bankers Association Bank PAC Texas Beverage Alliance of the Texas Package Store Texas Building Branch Associated General Contracto Texas Consumer Lenders PAC Texas Cornerstone Credit Union League PAC Texas Deer Association PAC Texas Defense PAC Texas Dental Association PAC (DenPAC) Texas Diamond Back Energy PAC Texas Farm Bureau Ag Fund PAC Texas Food & Fuel Association PAC Texas Hospital Association PAC (HOSPAC) Texas House Republican Caucus PAC Texas Impact, a CRH PAC Texas Land Developers Association PAC Texas Land Title Association PAC Texas Medical Association PAC (TEXPAC) Texas Mortgage Bankers Association PAC Texas Motor Transportation Association TRUCKPAC Texas Nurse Practitioners PAC Texas Oil and Gas Association PAC Texas Optometric PAC Texas Organizing Project PAC Texas Restaurant Association PAC Texas Sands PAC Texas Society Of Anesthesiologists PAC (TSAPAC) Texas Society of Architects Committee Texas Society of Certified Accountants PAC (TXCPA) Texas State Teachers Association PAC Texas Tech Alumni and Friends PAC (TECHPAC) Texas Trial Lawyers Association PAC (TTLA) The Chickasaw Nation The Dugaboy Investment Trust The Texas State University System PAC Todd A. Hunter Campaign TX Bitcoin PAC UA Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 286 PAC Union Pacific Corp PAC United Food & Commercial Workers International Uni United Parcel Service PAC United Services Automobile Industry Employee PAC University of Houston PAC US Anesthesia Partners of Texas PAC USAA Employee PAC Valero Energy Corp PAC Verizon Communications Inc. Good Government Club - Vistra Employee PAC of Vistra Corp. WalMart Inc. PAC for Responsible Government Wholesale Beer Distrbutors PAC Will Metcalf Campaign (S) Record vote (S) Three day rule suspended (S) Record vote (S) Read 3rd time (S) Passed 20250507_SB986_3R: Yea 18 (R 16 , D 2 ) - Nay 13 (R 4 , D 9 )
Yea - A. Hinojosa Bettencourt Birdwell Blanco Campbell Flores Hagenbuch Hall J. Hinojosa King Kolkhorst Middleton Nichols Parker Paxton Perry Schwertner Sparks
Nay - Alvarado Cook Creighton Eckhardt Gutierrez Hancock Huffman Hughes Johnson Menendez Miles West Zaffirini
You can view which lawmakers have received money from a specific PACAFSCME Texas Correctional Officers PAC Allen Boone Humphries Robinson, LLP American Electric Power Texas PAC Arnold & Itkin LLP Ashby Signature Homes LLC Associated General Contractors of Texas PAC Associated Republicans of Texas AT&T PAC Austin Fire Fighters PAC Baron & Budd, P.C. Barry and Lana Andrews Revocable Trust Beer Alliance of Texas PAC Blackridge PAC BNSF Railway Company RAILPAC Border Health PAC Brent Hagenbuch Campaign BSD NIHUL LLC Charles Butt Public Education PAC Charter Communications, Inc. Texas PAC Charter Schools Now PAC Chevron Employees Political Action Committee - Che Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Coalition Por/For Texas PAC Craig Goldman Campaign CVS Health PAC Dade Phelan Campaign Dan Patrick Campaign Dealon, LLC DEC PAC Defend Rural Texas PAC Defend Texas Liberty PAC Energy Transfer Partners Texas PAC Enterprise Products Partners Texas PAC Family Empowerment Coalition PAC Farmers Employee & Agent PAC of Texas Fasken Management, LLC FLD Interests Foley & Lardner LLP Texas Campaign Fund Fort Worth Firefighters Committee for Responsible Friends of the University PAC Friends of UT Southwestern Medical Center PAC Greg Abbott Campaign Gulf States Toyota PAC HCA Texas Good Government Fund Hillco PAC HOMEPAC (Texas Association of Builders) Houston Firefighters Union PAC Houston Police Officers' Union PAC HS Law PAC ILIAC, LLC Independent Bankers Association of Texas PAC Independent Insurance Agents of Texas PAC International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Kevin Eltife Campaign Kevin Sparks Campaign Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas Killam LTD Laminack, Pirtle & Martines Laredo Political Action Committee Leaders We Deserve PAC Legacy 44 Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP Locke Lord LLP LUMPAC Lyondell Chemical Company PAC Mansfield Business Management, LLC Marchant Good Government Fund McGuire Revocable Trust Metropolitan Anesthesia PAC Mission Business PAC NRG Energy Inc. Political Action Committee NuStar Energy PAC Oncor PAC Penn Entertainment Inc PAC Phillips 66 PAC Pioneer Natural Resources PAC Political Action Committee of Winstead PC Populus Financial Group, Inc. Texas PAC Protect and Serve Texas PAC Provider Coalition For Care PAC Public Blueprint LLC Q PAC Republican State Leadership Committee PAC Ryan Texas PAC Schwertner COH Campaign Account Senfronia Thompson Campaign Skyview Development LLC Tenet Healthcare Corporation Political Action Comm Texans for Dan Patrick Texans for Greg Abbott Texans for Lawsuit Reform Texans For Responsible Government PAC Texans United for a Conservative Majority PAC Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Texas Apartment Association (TAA PAC) Texas Association of Realtors PAC Texas Automobile Dealers Assocation Pac Texas Bail PAC Texas Bankers Association Bank PAC Texas Beverage Alliance of the Texas Package Store Texas Building Branch Associated General Contracto Texas Consumer Lenders PAC Texas Cornerstone Credit Union League PAC Texas Deer Association PAC Texas Defense PAC Texas Dental Association PAC (DenPAC) Texas Diamond Back Energy PAC Texas Farm Bureau Ag Fund PAC Texas Food & Fuel Association PAC Texas Hospital Association PAC (HOSPAC) Texas House Republican Caucus PAC Texas Impact, a CRH PAC Texas Land Developers Association PAC Texas Land Title Association PAC Texas Medical Association PAC (TEXPAC) Texas Mortgage Bankers Association PAC Texas Motor Transportation Association TRUCKPAC Texas Nurse Practitioners PAC Texas Oil and Gas Association PAC Texas Optometric PAC Texas Organizing Project PAC Texas Restaurant Association PAC Texas Sands PAC Texas Society Of Anesthesiologists PAC (TSAPAC) Texas Society of Architects Committee Texas Society of Certified Accountants PAC (TXCPA) Texas State Teachers Association PAC Texas Tech Alumni and Friends PAC (TECHPAC) Texas Trial Lawyers Association PAC (TTLA) The Chickasaw Nation The Dugaboy Investment Trust The Texas State University System PAC Todd A. Hunter Campaign TX Bitcoin PAC UA Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 286 PAC Union Pacific Corp PAC United Food & Commercial Workers International Uni United Parcel Service PAC United Services Automobile Industry Employee PAC University of Houston PAC US Anesthesia Partners of Texas PAC USAA Employee PAC Valero Energy Corp PAC Verizon Communications Inc. Good Government Club - Vistra Employee PAC of Vistra Corp. WalMart Inc. PAC for Responsible Government Wholesale Beer Distrbutors PAC Will Metcalf Campaign (S) Record vote (S) Reported engrossed May 8, 2025
(H) Received from the Senate May 10, 2025
(H) Read first time (H) Referred to the House Delivery of Government Efficiency, chaired by a Republican 
