2025 bills / S.B. 169
S.B. 169 Governmental Immunity Act Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
According to the official description, this bill:
- defines a term
- requires a governmental entity to file a statement with Division of Corporations and Commercial Code containing:
- any doing-business-as name the governmental entity utilizes
- the office or agent designated to receive service of a summons and complaint
- the physical address to which service of a summons and complaint is to be delivered by hand or transmitted by mail
- prohibits a governmental entity from challenging the validity of a notice of claim, or the sufficiency of service of a summons and complaint, if the governmental entity:
- fails to file or update the statement described above
- has actual notice of the notice of claim or the summons and complaint
- if a challenge described above is not prohibited, requires a claimant to prove that the claimant used reasonable diligence in attempting to discover the identity of a governmental entity using a doing-business-as name
- makes technical and conforming changes
Your legislators on this bill
Enter your address to see what your own representative and senator did on this bill.
Take action
This bill's session is over, but your legislators still want to hear from you. Ideas that died often come back next year.
Enter your address to get your legislators' contact information and a ready-to-send message about this bill.
Every vote
- 5 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee: vote to change the bill · 1/29/2025 3:17 PMWho voted how
- 5 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee: vote to approve it · 1/29/2025 3:17 PMWho voted how
- 24 yes, 0 no, 5 absentFirst of two Senate votes · 2/7/2025 3:26 PMWho voted how
- 27 yes, 0 no, 2 absentFinal Senate vote · 2/11/2025 11:50 AMWho voted how
- 8 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Judiciary Committee: vote to approve it · 2/27/2025 4:16 PMWho voted how
- 71 yes, 0 no, 4 absentFinal House vote · 3/6/2025 5:59 PM