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Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB456 makes the existing crime of buying or selling human organs a state jail felony and requires physician-license revocation for knowingly using an…
Official caption: Relating to the purchase or sale of human organs; increasing a criminal penalty.
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SB571 expands school-misconduct reporting, hiring checks and state investigations, and shortens professionals’ child-abuse reporting deadline.
Official caption: Relating to the reporting and investigation of certain misconduct and child abuse and neglect; creating a criminal offense.
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SB651 allows a veterans county service office in a county of at least 200,000 people to report directly to a designated county executive official ins…
Official caption: Relating to the requirement that a veterans county service office report to the commissioners court or a designated county executive official.
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SB693 adds notary education, a ten-year record-retention rule and a criminal offense for knowingly notarizing for a person who did not personally app…
Official caption: Relating to notaries public; creating a criminal offense; authorizing a fee.
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SB703 revises and specifies the offenses that disqualify individuals from massage-related licenses, ties mandatory therapist and instructor revocatio…
Official caption: Relating to the criminal and licensing consequences for the commission of certain offenses by massage establishments, massage schools, massage therapists, and massage therapy instructors.
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SB745 makes intoxication manslaughter a first-degree felony when the prosecution shows at trial that the person caused more than one death during the…
Official caption: Relating to enhancing the criminal penalty for the offense of intoxication manslaughter in certain circumstances.
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SB761 strengthens specified crime-victim notices and participation rights, expands access to support during sexual-assault interviews, and adds a con…
Official caption: Relating to the offense of sexual assault and to the rights of crime victims, including the enforcement of certain rights of sexual assault victims; authorizing a civil penalty.
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SB860 abolishes the Criminal Justice Legislative Oversight Committee and redirects or preserves two existing agency reports.
Official caption: Relating to abolishing the Criminal Justice Legislative Oversight Committee.
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SB888 allows the Texas attorney general to defend a district or county attorney in certain federal-court lawsuits about enforcement of state law.
Official caption: Relating to the attorney general's defense of a district or county attorney against certain lawsuits in federal court.
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SB955 increases punishment for human trafficking tied to correctional facilities.
Official caption: Relating to the punishment for the offense of trafficking of persons.
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SB958 expands the offenses for which qualifying trafficking or compelled-prostitution victims can seek a court order restricting public access to the…
Official caption: Relating to the eligibility of certain victims of trafficking of persons or compelling prostitution for an order of nondisclosure of criminal history record information.
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SB1021 removes ordinary judge-ordered community supervision after a stalking conviction and extends the improper-victim-contact offense to people con…
Official caption: Relating to changing the eligibility for community supervision of a person convicted of stalking and to the offense of improper contact with the person's victim.
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SB1080 expands opportunities to arrange an occupational license before leaving prison and changes when imprisonment requires a license to be revoked.
Official caption: Relating to the revocation of an occupational license from certain license holders and the issuance of an occupational license to certain applicants with criminal convictions.
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SB1120 expands and reorganizes crime victims’ information rights and extends the duration of specified family-violence protective orders.
Official caption: Relating to rights of a victim, guardian of a victim, or close relative of a deceased victim in certain criminal cases involving family violence, sexual or assaultive offenses, stalking, or a violation of a protective order or condition of bond and to the duration of certain protective orders.
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SB1137 restricts paid referrals to unlicensed or unpermitted group homes, while allowing two specific exceptions and requiring disclosure of known co…
Official caption: Relating to group home consultant referrals; creating a criminal offense.
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SB1197 extends the existing airport/military-installation drone offense to qualifying spaceports.
Official caption: Relating to the operation of an unmanned aircraft over a spaceport; creating a criminal offense.
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SB1198 brings specified spacecraft property and facilities into Texas’s existing critical-infrastructure criminal and civil liability law.
Official caption: Relating to the designation of spaceports as critical infrastructure facilities for purposes of criminal and civil liability.
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SB1212 makes trafficking of persons under Penal Code 20A.02 a first-degree felony as the general rule, rather than a second-degree felony unless spec…
Official caption: Relating to the prosecution and punishment for the offense of trafficking of persons; increasing a criminal penalty.
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SB1220 says that a criminal trial court normally does not have to wait for civil or administrative remedies to be exhausted before it has authority t…
Official caption: Relating to the subject matter jurisdiction of the criminal trial courts of this state.
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SB1267 rewrites important parts of Texas boat and outboard-motor titling: electronic records, shorter application periods, hull-damage disclosures, a…
Official caption: Relating to certificates of number and certificates of title issued by and records kept by the Parks and Wildlife Department; creating a criminal offense.
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SB1281 expands Texas mail-theft law to cover mail in transit, adds penalties for stealing negotiable instruments from mail, and creates an offense in…
Official caption: Relating to certain criminal offenses involving mail or a mail receptacle key or lock; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty.
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SB1283 requires qualifying senior retirement communities to check employees' criminal histories, notify residents about known crime reports and crimi…
Official caption: Relating to resident safety from criminal activity in senior retirement communities.
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SB1300 rewrites organized retail theft, raises its basic penalty tiers and changes how prosecutors may charge and prove it.
Official caption: Relating to the prosecution and punishment of the criminal offense of organized retail theft; increasing criminal penalties.
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SB1313 creates a criminal offense for retailers using specified images or designs in marketing, advertising or selling cigarettes, e-cigarettes or to…
Official caption: Relating to prohibited signs, logos, and designs in advertising or marketing cigarettes, e-cigarettes, or other tobacco products; creating a criminal offense.
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SB1333 creates a sheriff-or-constable procedure for removing certain unauthorized occupants of a dwelling, adds property-fraud crimes and increases p…
Official caption: Relating to the unauthorized entry, occupancy, sale, rental, lease, advertisement for sale, rental, or lease, or conveyance of real property, including the removal of certain unauthorized occupants of a dwelling; creating criminal offenses; increasing a criminal penalty; authorizing a fee.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1349 creates two offenses aimed at agents of foreign governments or foreign terrorist organizations: transnational repression and unauthorized enfo…
Official caption: Relating to creating the criminal offenses of transnational repression and unauthorized enforcement of foreign law and to a study and law enforcement training regarding transnational repression.
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SB1362 restricts government use of certain firearm-removal orders and makes serving or enforcing a covered order a state jail felony, with important …
Official caption: Relating to prohibiting the recognition, service, and enforcement of extreme risk protective orders; creating a criminal offense.
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SB1379 increases many forgery penalties, including making the default offense a state jail felony and lowering the value threshold for a first-degree…
Official caption: Relating to increasing the criminal penalties for forgery.
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SB1451 raises the existing offense of stealing or knowingly receiving a stolen unsigned check or similar sight order from a Class A misdemeanor to a …
Official caption: Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of stealing or receiving a stolen check or similar sight order.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1537 expressly ties criminal-court interpreter appointments to the Government Code’s qualification and appointment rules.
Official caption: Relating to the appointment of an interpreter in a criminal proceeding.
