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HB1237 • 2025

Relating to the renewal by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality of certain expired occupational licenses and registrations.

Relating to the renewal by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality of certain expired occupational licenses and registrations.

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Guillen
Last action
2025-06-20
Official status
06/20/2025 E Effective on 9/1/25
Effective date
2025-06-20

Plain English Breakdown

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Relating to the renewal by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality of certain expired occupational licenses and registrations.

Relating to the renewal by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality of certain expired occupational licenses and registrations.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to the renewal by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality of certain expired occupational licenses and registrations.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed by the Governor

  2. 2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Effective on 9/1/25

  3. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the Senate

  4. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Sent to the Governor

  5. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the House

  6. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported enrolled

  7. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    House concurs in Senate amendment(s)

  8. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#3965

  9. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  10. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Text of Senate Amendment(s)

  11. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported

  12. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on local & uncontested calendar

  13. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid before the Senate

  14. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading

  15. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote recorded in Journal

  16. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Three day rule suspended

  17. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  18. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  19. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  20. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  21. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate passage as amended reported

  22. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate Amendments distributed

  23. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate Amendments Analysis distributed

  24. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  25. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Recommended for local & uncontested calendar

  26. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  27. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  28. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  29. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  30. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Posting rule suspended

  31. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  32. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  33. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the House

  34. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  35. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Natural Resources

  36. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar

  37. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  38. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to engrossment

  39. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal

  40. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  41. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  42. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#1573

  43. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal

  44. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  45. 2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Local & Consent Calendars

  46. 2025-05-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar

  47. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  48. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  49. 2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in formal meeting

  50. 2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent

  51. 2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

  52. 2025-04-17 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  53. 2025-04-17 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  54. 2025-04-17 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  55. 2025-04-17 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  56. 2025-03-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  57. 2025-03-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Environmental Regulation

  58. 2024-11-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to the renewal by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality of certain expired occupational licenses and registrations.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) HB 1237 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

H.B. No. 1237

AN ACT

relating to the renewal by the Texas Commission on Environmental

Quality of certain expired occupational licenses and

registrations.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 37.006, Water Code, is amended by

amending Subsections (f) and (g) and adding Subsection (h) to read

as follows:

(f) A person whose license or registration has been expired

for
not more than 90
[
30
] days [
or less
] may apply for renewal of the

license or registration by paying to the commission a renewal fee in

an amount prescribed by commission rule not to exceed 1-1/2 times

the normally required renewal fee.
Notwithstanding Subsection (e),

a person who has applied for renewal of the license or registration

under this subsection may engage in activities that require a

license or registration after the expiration of the license or

registration until the license or registration is renewed or

denied.

(g)
A person whose license or registration has been expired

for at least 90 days but not more than 180 days may apply for renewal

of the license or registration by paying to the commission a renewal

fee in an amount prescribed by commission rule not to exceed two

times the normally required renewal fee.

(h)
A person whose license or registration has been expired

for
at least 180 days
[
more than 30 days
] may not renew the license

or registration. The person may obtain a new license or

registration by complying with the requirements and procedures,

including the examination requirements, for obtaining an original

license or registration.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

______________________________

______________________________

President of the Senate

Speaker of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 1237 was passed by the House on May 7,

2025, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 9, 2 present, not

voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.

No. 1237 on May 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 98, Nays 35,

2 present, not voting.

______________________________

Chief Clerk of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 1237 was passed by the Senate, with

amendments, on May 25, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays

0.

______________________________

Secretary of the Senate

APPROVED: __________________

Date

__________________

Governor