← All legislation

2025-2026 89th Legislature

SB315

Relating to a property right in DNA; providing injunctive relief and a civil penalty; creating a criminal offense.

Current disposition
Pending: House
Last status date
May 27, 2025
Last status update
Placed on General State Calendar
Author
Lois Kolkhorst
Co-sponsors
Kevin SparksCaroline Harris Davila

Legislative progress

i

This summary includes only completed milestones supported by recorded actions. It does not predict the next step, and it preserves later committee reassignments, concurrence, conference, veto, and approval actions when they occur.

House committee substitute May 14, 2025 House committee substitute May 21, 2025
Open official bill pageLatest bill text

Committee referrals

Instrument history

i

This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.

  1. House Placed on General State Calendar
  2. House Considered in Calendars
  3. House Committee report sent to Calendars
  4. House Committee report distributed
  5. House Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
  6. House Reported favorably as substituted
  7. House Committee substitute considered in committee
  8. House Considered in public hearing
  9. House Left pending in committee
  10. House Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
  11. House Committee substitute considered in committee
  12. House Considered in public hearing
  13. House Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  14. House Referred to Trade, Workforce & Economic Development
  15. House Read first time
  16. House Received from the Senate
  17. Senate Reported engrossed
  18. Senate Record vote
  19. Senate Passed
  20. Senate Read 3rd time
  21. Senate Record vote
  22. Senate Three day rule suspended
  23. Senate Vote recorded in Journal
  24. Senate Passed to engrossment as amended
  25. Senate Vote recorded in Journal
  26. Senate Amended
  27. Senate Amendment(s) offered FA1 Kolkhorst
  28. Senate Read 2nd time
  29. Senate Rules suspended-Regular order of business
  30. Senate Placed on intent calendar
  31. Senate Co-author authorized
  32. Senate Committee report printed and distributed
  33. Senate Reported favorably w/o amendments
  34. Senate Vote taken in committee
  35. Senate Considered in public hearing
  36. Senate Left pending in committee
  37. Senate Testimony taken in committee
  38. Senate Considered in public hearing
  39. Senate Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  40. Senate Referred to Health & Human Services
  41. Senate Read first time
  42. Senate Filed
  43. Senate Received by the Secretary of the Senate
Source provenance
LegiScan bill ID
1890778
LegiScan session ID
2160
Source file
var/states/texas/source/legiscan/2160-8caaa099665d/bill/SB315.json
Package observed
2026-07-17T02:14:58+00:00