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Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1563 requires training for county jailers on interacting with veterans in the criminal justice system.
Official caption: Relating to county jailer training on interacting with veterans in the criminal justice system.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1610 changes criminal penalties, bail, registration and administration for people civilly committed as sexually violent predators.
Official caption: Relating to sexually violent predators, to the Texas Civil Commitment Office, and to the prosecution of the offense of harassment by sexually violent predators and other persons confined in certain facilities; amending certain sex offender registration requirements; increasing criminal penalties.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1621 expands offenses involving sexual images of children to cover lifelike computer-generated children and rewrites penalties and defenses.
Official caption: Relating to prosecution and punishment of certain criminal offenses prohibiting sexually explicit visual material involving depictions of children, computer-generated children, or other persons; creating criminal offenses; increasing criminal penalties.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1637 gives peace officers two specific protections under Texas’s deadly-conduct statute.
Official caption: Relating to the prosecution of the offense of deadly conduct.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1646 adds criminal penalties for certain copper and brass offenses and new safeguards for business-to-business metal recycling.
Official caption: Relating to criminal conduct involving the theft, damage, or destruction of copper or brass or involving the unauthorized possession of certain copper or brass material, to transactions of metal recycling entities involving certain copper or brass material, to training on identifying certain copper or brass material, and to studying the effect of certain regulations on incidents of theft of copper or brass material; creating criminal offenses; increasing criminal penalties; providing an administrative penalty.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1723 creates a rapid DNA-testing pilot and separately authorizes approved police agencies to perform rapid DNA analysis under statewide standards.
Official caption: Relating to rapid DNA analysis by certain law enforcement agencies, the establishment of a related pilot program, and the content of certain DNA databases.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1804 helps victims remove tattoos imposed through force, fraud or coercion connected to trafficking or prostitution-related offenses.
Official caption: Relating to restitution and compensation paid to victims of certain offenses for tattoo removal related to the offense.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1806 strengthens criminal enforcement against petroleum theft, unauthorized petroleum transactions and unpermitted oil-and-gas waste disposal.
Official caption: Relating to the inspection, purchase, sale, possession, storage, transportation, and disposal of petroleum products, oil and gas equipment, and oil and gas waste; creating criminal offenses and increasing the punishment for an existing criminal offense.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1809 creates a felony offense targeting gift-card fraud, including tampering with packaging and planting unactivated cards on retail displays.
Official caption: Relating to the creation of the offense of fraudulent use, possession, or tampering with a gift card, gift card packaging, or gift card data or redemption information.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1833 increases punishment for specified drug-delivery offenses when the defendant used a social-media platform to further the offense.
Official caption: Relating to the use of a social media platform in furtherance of an offense involving the delivery of a controlled substance; increasing criminal penalties.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1879 directs the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to transfer a specified 14.999-acre tract to Walker County for a justice center.
Official caption: Relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to Walker County.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1896 requires information needed for emergency protection orders to reach the magistrate handling a covered arrest.
Official caption: Relating to the provision of information regarding an arrested person and the victim of the offense to a magistrate for purposes of an order for emergency protection.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1946 requires a temporary statewide task force to study and improve prevention of family-violence criminal homicide.
Official caption: Relating to the creation of a family violence criminal homicide prevention task force.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2112 creates separate penalty tracks for cultivated-oyster offenses: higher penalties for repeat statutory violations, but a lower ordinary penalty…
Official caption: Relating to the punishment for certain criminal offenses related to cultivated oyster mariculture; increasing a criminal penalty.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2129 raises the fine for a railroad-crossing offense when it is proved at trial that the vehicle operator disregarded a flagger’s warning about an …
Official caption: Relating to the operation of vehicles at railroad grade crossings; increasing a criminal penalty.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2143 expressly allows counties to commission specified fire-protection personnel as peace officers and says a county may establish a law-enforcemen…
Official caption: Relating to the authority of a county to commission certain individuals as peace officers and establish certain law enforcement agencies.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2177 creates a state grant program to help eligible local law-enforcement agencies investigate specified violent and sexual crimes.
Official caption: Relating to the creation of a grant program to assist local law enforcement agencies in solving violent and sexual offenses.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2371 creates a reporting, investigation and enforcement framework for skimmers on electronic payment terminals, including store checkout terminals,…
Official caption: Relating to skimmers on electronic terminals; authorizing a civil penalty; creating criminal offenses.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2373 creates civil remedies and a criminal offense for financial exploitation or abuse using deceptive computer-generated media or phishing.
Official caption: Relating to financial exploitation or financial abuse using artificially generated media or phishing communications; providing a civil penalty; creating a criminal offense.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2514 creates a Department of Public Safety unit addressing foreign-adversary operations, adds gift and contact-reporting rules for covered public e…
Official caption: Relating to establishing the hostile foreign adversaries unit at the Department of Public Safety and training, prohibitions, and reporting requirements designed to combat foreign influence and foreign adversary operations; creating a criminal offense.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2569 replaces the requirement that covered law-enforcement agencies send drone-use reports to state leaders and lawmakers with a public-availabilit…
Official caption: Relating to the reporting requirement for certain law enforcement agencies regarding the agencies' use or operation of an unmanned aircraft.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2580 lets sheriffs’ departments in counties with at least 500,000 residents qualify as designated agencies under Texas’s Chapter 18B investigative-…
Official caption: Relating to the definition of a designated law enforcement office or agency for purposes of certain laws governing the installation and use of tracking equipment and access to certain communications.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2587 revises who may receive criminal-history records, whose records may be checked, and what identifying information is required across several Te…
Official caption: Relating to the access to and use of certain criminal history record information, to the procedure for obtaining that information, and to the correct terminology for certain licenses the issuance of which requires a criminal history background check.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2589 lets a narrowly defined border county avoid the usual transfer of a closed county road to adjoining owners when that transfer would create a p…
Official caption: Relating to procedures for a commissioners court to close, abandon, or vacate certain county roads.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2798 gives prosecutors seven years from the offense date to bring felony charges under the Penal Code’s fraud chapter, while keeping the existing t…
Official caption: Relating to certain statutes of limitations for criminal offenses, including the statute of limitations for certain fraud offenses.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2807 creates state authorization and safety-enforcement procedures for commercial driverless vehicles, while also changing how motor-carrier safety…
Official caption: Relating to motor vehicles, including automated motor vehicles; creating a criminal offense.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB3031 expands the circumstances in which a firearm-related aggravated assault connected to a motor vehicle is a first-degree felony.
Official caption: Relating to the punishment for the offense of aggravated assault.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB3070 replaces the Texas Lottery Commission, not the lottery itself.
Official caption: Relating to the abolishment of the Texas Lottery Commission and the transfer of the administration of the state lottery and the licensing and regulation of charitable bingo to the Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation; creating criminal offenses.
Second called session · Source-checked explanation published
HB20, the Disaster Scam Response Act, creates a local disaster-donation designation program, new criminal penalties for specified scams and a civil r…
Official caption: Relating to measures to prevent and reduce fraudulent charitable solicitations and theft during declared disasters, including establishing a designation program for disaster relief nonprofit organizations and financial institutions; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty.
Second called session · Source-checked explanation published
In a county with more than 3.3 million residents, the sheriff may contract with a local government, property owners' association, or landowner to pro…
Official caption: Relating to contracting with law enforcement agencies in certain counties.
