At around 4 p.m. Monday, June 2, both chambers of the Texas Legislature adjourned sine die. After several hours of recognitions, resolutions, and even some last-minute legislating to ensure state judges got a pay raise, all bills of the 89th legislative session are now signed into law, headed to the governor's desk to be passed or vetoed, or dead. The final deadline of the 89th session, following sine die, is a rolling deadline that concludes 20 days from sine die-this year on June 22. The governor has 20 days from the date he receives any bill delivered to him after May 23 to sign it, veto it, or allow it to become law without a signature. Unless otherwise specified, bills become effective 91 days after sine die. Bills with earlier effective dates must have been passed by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each chamber.
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Michael Spurlin
ATPE
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