84th Regular Legislative Session Comes to An End, But Bills Still Await Governor Action
On June 1st, 2015, the 84th Texas Legislative Session officially came to an end. The last day of legislative session is commonly referred to as "Sine Die," a Latin phrase which means "without assigning a day for a further meeting or hearing," though it does not represent the final point for the bills to become law. During the twenty days following the end of a regular session, the Governor of Texas has the ability to sign bills into law, pass them into law indirectly by not signing them, or to veto them. It is during these twenty days that members of the Texas House and Texas Senate find out if the bills they worked on and passed during the session will become law or not.
