SB 767: bill builds a statewide wildfire equipment database

Caption

relating to creating a database of the firefighting equipment in the state available for use in responding to wildfires.

Caption from analyzed text · version I.

Summary

Real-time, run by the Texas A&M Forest Service.

The bill orders the Texas A&M Forest Service to build and run a real-time, statewide database of firefighting equipment available for wildfires. It covers every fire department in Texas, including volunteer departments and emergency services districts, which can search the database by location and equipment type and update their own entries. Starting September 1, 2025, departments get one shared place to find wildfire equipment and contact information, though the text lets each department choose whether to report its equipment.

Receipt

The receipt

89R-SB767 · 2025-01-13

SOLD BY

Sen. Kevin SparksRSenate 31

+ 4 coauthors

ITEM

relating to creating a database of the firefighting equipment in the state available for use in responding to wildfires.

WHAT IT DOES

Real-time, run by the Texas A&M Forest Service.

The bill orders the Texas A&M Forest Service to build and run a real-time, statewide database of firefighting equipment available for wildfires. It covers every fire department in Texas, including volunteer departments and emergency services districts, which can search the database by location and equipment type and update their own entries. Starting September 1, 2025, departments get one shared place to find wildfire equipment and contact information, though the text lets each department choose whether to report its equipment.

CHARGES

[ ] NONE FOUND

TOTAL

No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

LBB estimate · fiscal note version F · source

Sources

Fiscal note · version F · May 1, 2025

No first-year general revenue figure available here.

LBB published estimates · flow over the stated periods.

Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.

HISTORY

Jan 13, 2025Received by the Secretary of the Senate
Jan 13, 2025Filed
Feb 4, 2025Co-author authorized
Feb 7, 2025Read first time
Feb 7, 2025Referred to Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs
Feb 11, 2025Co-author authorized
Mar 3, 2025Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
Mar 3, 2025Considered in public hearing
Mar 3, 2025Testimony taken in committee
Mar 3, 2025Vote taken in committee
Mar 4, 2025Reported favorably w/o amendments
Mar 4, 2025Committee report printed and distributed
Mar 6, 2025Co-author authorized
Mar 6, 2025Placed on intent calendar
Mar 11, 2025Rules suspended-Constitutional 60-Day
Mar 11, 2025Rules suspended-Regular order of business
Mar 11, 2025Read 2nd time
Mar 11, 2025Amendment(s) offered FA1 Sparks
Mar 11, 2025Amended
Mar 11, 2025Vote recorded in Journal
Mar 11, 2025Passed to engrossment as amended
Mar 11, 2025Vote recorded in Journal
Mar 11, 2025Three day rule suspended
Mar 11, 2025Record vote
Mar 11, 2025Read 3rd time
Mar 11, 2025Passed
Mar 11, 2025Record vote
Mar 11, 2025Reported engrossed
Mar 12, 2025Received from the Senate
Apr 9, 2025Read first time
Apr 9, 2025Referred to Agriculture & Livestock
Apr 14, 2025Considered in formal meeting
Apr 14, 2025Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent
Apr 14, 2025Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)
Apr 15, 2025Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
Apr 15, 2025Committee report distributed
Apr 16, 2025Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
Apr 23, 2025Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
Apr 25, 2025Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
Apr 25, 2025Withdrawn from calendar (contested)
Apr 25, 2025Returned to Local & Consent Calendars Comm.
Apr 25, 2025Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
Apr 25, 2025Transferred to Calendars Committee
Apr 25, 2025Committee report sent to Calendars
Apr 25, 2025Considered in Calendars
Apr 29, 2025Placed on General State Calendar
Apr 29, 2025Read 2nd time
Apr 29, 2025Amended 1-Fairly
Apr 29, 2025Passed to 3rd reading as amended
Apr 29, 2025Record vote RV#934
Apr 29, 2025Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
Apr 30, 2025Read 3rd time
Apr 30, 2025Passed
Apr 30, 2025Record vote RV#958
Apr 30, 2025Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
Apr 30, 2025House passage as amended reported
May 5, 2025House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
May 5, 2025Read
May 5, 2025Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
May 5, 2025Record vote
May 5, 2025Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported
May 5, 2025Reported enrolled
May 7, 2025Signed in the Senate
May 7, 2025Signed in the House
May 7, 2025Sent to the Governor
May 19, 2025Signed by the Governor
May 19, 2025Effective on 9/1/25

FILED UNDER

No verified beat found.

SIGNED FOR BY

House · 140 yea · 0 nay

Senate · 31 yea · 0 nay

Sources

House: Final passage · Apr 30, 2025. Journal. Published stock for this vote. Snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.

Senate: Final passage · Mar 11, 2025. Journal. Published stock for this vote. Snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.

All floor motions and other positions below.

No flags

THANK YOU FOR CHECKING THE RECEIPT

CAMPAIGN PAID FOR BY

Kevin Sparks

Donors

Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC$60KKyle & Jamie Stallings$25,000Tim Dunn$25,000

Not tied to this bill.

Sources

The author's campaign account only. Own money and internal transfers are separate on the member page.

Derived itemized flow · Jul 25, 2024 to Oct 23, 2026. State data as of Nov 4, 2026.

Derived itemized contributions on live regular reports and uncovered special-session dates. Internal account transfers and daily reports are excluded.

Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC$60,000.00

Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC

$60,000.00

Cash: $60,000.00
Paid by others: $0.00
Total: $60,000.00

Also funds 124 other sitting lawmakers.

Derived recipient stock · Jul 10, 2024 to Oct 23, 2026. State data as of Nov 4, 2026.

TEC account match.

Team

Sources

Derived itemized flow · Oct 15, 2024 to Oct 23, 2026. State data as of Nov 4, 2026.

Derived itemized contributions on live regular reports and uncovered special-session dates. Internal account transfers and daily reports are excluded.

Report IDs: 101012623, 101029380, 101072732.

Kyle & Jamie Stallings$25,000.00

Tim Dunn$25,000.00

Money

Missing data does not establish zero giving. Display amounts are rounded.

×

Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC

$60,000.00

Cash: $60,000.00
Paid by others: $0.00
Total: $60,000.00

Also funds 124 other sitting lawmakers.

Derived recipient stock · Jul 10, 2024 to Oct 23, 2026. State data as of Nov 4, 2026.

TEC account match.

Team

Sources

Derived itemized flow · Oct 15, 2024 to Oct 23, 2026. State data as of Nov 4, 2026.

Derived itemized contributions on live regular reports and uncovered special-session dates. Internal account transfers and daily reports are excluded.

Report IDs: 101012623, 101029380, 101072732.

Votes6

Senate May 5, 2025

Yea: 31
Nay: 0
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed

Names

Senate journal

Names were not printed. No individual positions are inferred.

Sources

Senator Sparks moved to concur in the House amendment to SB 767. The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.

Yea: 31 (published)
Nay: 0 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed

Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.

House Apr 30, 2025

Yea: 140
Nay: 0
Present, not voting: 2
Absent: 3
Excused: 5

Names

Named positions matched to lawmakers. See the journal for unmatched names.

House journal

Sources

Record 958

SB 767 was passed by (Record 958): 140 Yeas, 0 Nays, 2 Present, not voting.

Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.

Yea: 140 (published)
Nay: 0 (published)
Present, not voting: 2 (published)
Absent: 3 (derived from named list)
Excused: 5 (derived from named list)

House journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.

House Apr 29, 2025

Yea: 139
Nay: 6
Present, not voting: 2
Absent: 3
Excused: 0

Names

Named positions matched to lawmakers. See the journal for unmatched names.

House journal

Sources

Record 934

SB 767, as amended, was passed to third reading by (Record 934): 139 Yeas, 6 Nays, 2 Present, not voting.

Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.

Yea: 139 (published)
Nay: 6 (published)
Present, not voting: 2 (published)
Absent: 3 (derived from named list)
Excused: 0 (derived from named list)

House journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.

Senate Mar 11, 2025

Yea: 31
Nay: 0
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed

Names

Senate journal

Names were not printed. No individual positions are inferred.

Sources

Senator Sparks moved that Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that SB 767 be placed on its third reading and final passage. The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. The bill was read third time and was passed by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.

Yea: 31 (published)
Nay: 0 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed

Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.

Senate Mar 11, 2025

Yea: 31
Nay: 0
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed

Names

Senate journal

Names were not printed. No individual positions are inferred.

Sources

Senator Sparks moved that Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that SB 767 be placed on its third reading and final passage. The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.

Yea: 31 (published)
Nay: 0 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed

Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.

Senate Mar 11, 2025

Yea: Not printed
Nay: Not printed
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed

Names

Senate journal

Names were not printed. No individual positions are inferred.

Voice vote. No numeric tally or individual yeas are inferred.

Sources

SB 767 as amended was passed to engrossment by a viva voce vote.

Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.

Yea: Not printed
Nay: Not printed
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed

Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.

Witnesses14

For: 14
Against: 0
On: 0

Names

For

AECT - Association of Electric Companies of Texas1 registration
City of Dallas1 registration
City of Houston1 registration
Perimater Solutions1 registration
Self1 registration
Self; HPOU1 registration
Self; SAFE-D, the Texas State Association of Fire and Emergency Districts1 registration
Self; Travis County ESD No. 2, Pflugerville Fire Dept1 registration
State Firefights and Fire Marshals Asoc1 registration
Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association1 registration
Texas 20361 registration
Texas Farm Bureau1 registration
Wildfire Prevention Co.1 registration
Williamson County Emergency Services District No. 31 registration

Sources

14 parsed registrations across the loaded witness lists.

Derived stock of witness registrations. Repeated appearances count separately. Organizations and self-representation appear as printed.

Senate witness list. Source snapshot 2026-10-20, Central time.

Fiscal

No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

LBB estimate · fiscal note version F · source

Sources

Fiscal note · version F · May 1, 2025

No first-year general revenue figure available here.

LBB published estimates · flow over the stated periods.

Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.

How this was graded

Analysis of text version I by claude-opus-5-5, Oct 20, 2026, against the published rubric.

Sources

Texas Senate · Filed Jan 13, 2025

05/19/2025 E Effective on 9/1/25

Texas Legislature Online · Introduced · Senate Committee Report · Engrossed · House Committee Report · Enrolled

Data snapshot Oct 26, 2026 at 4:20 AM CDT. Grades, charges, quotes and corrections follow the published record.

Coauthors

César BlancoDSenate 29

Sarah EckhardtDSenate 14

Adam HinojosaRSenate 27

Lois KolkhorstRSenate 18

Companion

HB 2063 by Fairly (identical)

Subjects

Disaster Preparedness & Relief

Electronic Information Systems

Fire Fighters & Police--General

Fire Fighters & Police--Volunteer

FIRE SAFETY & PREVENTION

TEXAS A&M FOREST SERVICE

Text

The text as introduced · 264 words

2025S0019-1 01/10/25

By: Sparks
S.B. No. 767

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to creating a database of the firefighting equipment in

the state available for use in responding to wildfires.

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

SECTION 1. Section 418.004, Government Code, is amended by

adding Subdivision (15) to read as follows:

(15) "Forest service" means the Texas A&M Forest

Service.

SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 418, Government Code, is

amended by adding Section 418.059 to read as follows:

Sec. 418.059. STATEWIDE DATABASE OF FIREFIGHTING

EQUIPMENT. (a) The forest service shall create and maintain a

comprehensive database that shows in real time the statewide

inventory of firefighting equipment that is available for use in

responding to wildfires.

(b) The database must:

(1) include a description of the type of firefighting

equipment each fire department in the state has available for use in

responding to wildfires;

(2) include contact information for the fire

department that has the equipment;

(3) be searchable by location and equipment type; and

(4) be accessible by all fire departments in the state

and allow each fire department to update the information in the

database regarding the equipment the fire department has available.

(c) The forest service may assist fire departments who

choose to provide equipment information in updating the database

annually or as soon as practicable after any change in the

availability of the department's firefighting equipment.

(d) In this section, "fire department" includes a volunteer

fire department or an emergency services district.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

Verdict: No flags

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ITEM

WHAT IT DOES

CHARGES

TOTAL

HISTORY

SIGNED FOR BY

Donors

Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC

Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC

Senate May 5, 2025

House Apr 30, 2025

House Apr 29, 2025

Senate Mar 11, 2025

Senate Mar 11, 2025

Senate Mar 11, 2025

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