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Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB40 expands the kinds of large commercial disputes Texas's specialized business court can hear and updates its operating rules.
Official caption: Relating to the business court.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB45 creates a procedure directing the Texas attorney general to prosecute certain human-trafficking cases when the local prosecutor has not acted af…
Official caption: Relating to the duty of the attorney general to represent the state in the prosecution of the criminal offense of trafficking of persons.
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HB75 requires a magistrate who finds no probable cause for the offense behind an arrest to put supporting written findings in the court record within…
Official caption: Relating to the duty of a magistrate to make written findings in certain criminal proceedings.
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HB108 increases punishment when a defendant uses metal or body armor during a covered offense against a person and that fact is proved beyond a reaso…
Official caption: Relating to the use of metal or body armor while committing certain offenses; increasing a criminal penalty.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB166 adds substances in Texas Penalty Group 1-B—including fentanyl and specified related opioids—to the drug-related circumstances that can support …
Official caption: Relating to committing the criminal offense of endangering a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual by engaging in certain conduct involving a controlled substance listed in Penalty Group 1-B of the Texas Controlled Substances Act.
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HB272 gives prosecutors an additional place to bring a case for fraudulent use or possession of credit-card or debit-card information under Penal Cod…
Official caption: Relating to the prosecution of the offense of fraudulent use or possession of credit card or debit card information.
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HB285 adds criminal negligence to the mental states that can support a prosecution for cruelty to nonlivestock animals.
Official caption: Relating to the prosecution of the offense of cruelty to nonlivestock animals.
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HB521 changes Texas curbside-voting procedures.
Official caption: Relating to accommodating voters with a disability; creating a criminal offense.
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HB654, the Asp-Morgan Act, lets a court defer certain deer-hunting charges without first finding the defendant guilty, then dismiss them after hunter…
Official caption: Relating to the dismissal of a criminal charge related to the illegal hunting of certain deer; authorizing fees.
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HB908 adds the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to the destinations that a law-enforcement agency must promptly notify afte…
Official caption: Relating to the reporting by law enforcement agencies of missing children to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
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HB1422 creates a continuous sexual abuse offense for someone 17 or older who commits two or more qualifying acts against two or more victims over a p…
Official caption: Relating to the rights of victims of sexual assault and other sex offenses, the offense of continuous sexual abuse, and the prosecution, punishment, and collateral consequences of certain sex offenses; creating a criminal offense; increasing criminal penalties; changing the eligibility for community supervision, mandatory supervision, and parole for persons convicted of certain sex offenses.
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Effective September 1, 2025, HB1443 creates an offense for knowingly promoting, possessing with intent to promote, or possessing a statutorily define…
Official caption: Relating to creating the criminal offense of promotion or possession of a child-like sex doll.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB1445 allows the director's designee in a county's managed assigned counsel program to receive, approve or reduce appointed lawyers' payment request…
Official caption: Relating to the compensation of counsel appointed to provide representation and services to indigent individuals in criminal and juvenile proceedings.
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HB1465 expands the location-based part of Texas's invasive visual recording offense.
Official caption: Relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of invasive visual recording and the applicability of sex offender registration requirements to that offense.
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HB1506 adds a retired constitutional-county-court or statutory-county-court judge who served at least 48 months in those courts to the definition of …
Official caption: Relating to the issuance of a license to carry a handgun to certain retired county court judges.
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HB1610 reorganizes existing Texas laws on family violence, public-health offenses, death investigations and fire investigations.
Official caption: Relating to the nonsubstantive revision of certain provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, including conforming amendments.
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HB1661 creates two election-supply offenses, increases penalties for three existing offenses, and gives countywide polling-place counties more flexib…
Official caption: Relating to election supplies and the conduct of elections; creating criminal offenses; increasing criminal penalties.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB1734 changes which documents a court clerk must send when continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a parent-child case is transferred to another cou…
Official caption: Relating to the transfer of court files in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship in which continuing, exclusive jurisdiction is transferred.
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HB1828 creates a shared legislative-leave pool for correctional officers employed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ).
Official caption: Relating to legislative leave for correctional officers employed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
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HB1866 allows commissioned National Park Service law-enforcement officers, within a national park or national recreation area's boundaries, to execut…
Official caption: Relating to the state law enforcement authority of federal National Park Service law enforcement officers.
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HB1871 sets a 25-year minimum prison sentence for attempted capital murder of a peace officer and bars parole and mandatory supervision for that sent…
Official caption: Relating to the punishment for the criminal offense of attempted capital murder of a peace officer; increasing a criminal penalty; changing eligibility for parole and mandatory supervision.
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HB1893 allows a law enforcement agency to release a video in response to a public-information request without redacting license plate numbers that ca…
Official caption: Relating to the disclosure under the public information law of a motor vehicle license plate number captured in a video recording obtained or maintained by a law enforcement agency.
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HB1902 creates the offense of “jugging”: traveling along another person's route from a business or financial institution with intent to steal that pe…
Official caption: Relating to creating the criminal offense of jugging.
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HB1916 gives the court that issued the final divorce, annulment or other final property-division order continuing, exclusive authority to divide prop…
Official caption: Relating to the jurisdiction of a court in a suit to divide certain property not divided or awarded on the dissolution of a marriage.
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HB1950 creates a consolidated municipal court building security and technology fund for municipalities with fewer than 100,000 residents.
Official caption: Relating to the consolidated municipal court security and technology fund in certain municipalities.
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HB2000, called Audrii's Law, adds a conviction or adjudication for the existing Texas offense of child grooming to the sex-offender registration law.
Official caption: Relating to the applicability of sex offender registration requirements to the offense of child grooming.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB2001 increases punishment for misuse of official information when the offender's net financial gain reaches specified thresholds.
Official caption: Relating to increasing the criminal penalties for certain misuse of official information, including misuse of official information that results in certain net pecuniary gains.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB2017 makes intoxication manslaughter a first-degree felony in an additional, specifically defined circumstance.
Official caption: Relating to increasing the criminal penalty and changing the eligibility for community supervision, mandatory supervision, and parole for certain persons convicted of intoxication manslaughter.
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HB2073 increases penalties when someone commits specified protective-order or bond-condition violations while possessing a deadly weapon.
Official caption: Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for certain violations of certain court orders or conditions of bond in cases involving family violence, child abuse or neglect, sexual assault or abuse, indecent assault, stalking, or trafficking.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB2348 allows either side in a criminal case to ask the court to order the prosecutor to take an elderly or disabled person’s deposition by video.
Official caption: Relating to the video recording of a deposition taken of the testimony of certain elderly or disabled persons in a criminal case.
