Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee Bills & Legislation

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Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas House Bill HB4328

Voted on by House
 
Out of Senate Committee
 
Voted on by Senate
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to a limitation on the use of a victim's gender identity or sexual orientation as the basis for a defense in the trial of a criminal offense.
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Texas House Bill HB4342

Voted on by House
 
Out of Senate Committee
 
Voted on by Senate
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the admissibility of certain hearsay statements in the prosecution of certain sexual or assaultive offenses committed against a child or person with a disability.
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Texas House Bill HB4357

Voted on by House
 
Out of Senate Committee
 
Voted on by Senate
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to requiring a search warrant to obtain or use certain purchase information in a criminal action.
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Texas House Bill HB4414

Voted on by House
 
Out of Senate Committee
 
Voted on by Senate
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
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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Texas House Bill HB4416

Voted on by House
 
Out of Senate Committee
 
Voted on by Senate
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to disorderly or threatening behavior and measures by public schools and institutions of higher education to prevent that behavior; increasing criminal penalties; creating a criminal offense.
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Texas House Bill HB4476

Voted on by House
 
Out of Senate Committee
 
Voted on by Senate
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the waiver of jurisdiction by a juvenile court for certain children who are accused of committing certain offenses involving the use or exhibition of a firearm, the mandatory transfer of jurisdiction for those children to a criminal court, and an order of expunction issued with respect to those offenses.
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Texas House Bill HB4563

Voted on by House
 
Out of Senate Committee
 
Voted on by Senate
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to allowing a therapy or facility dog to accompany a child or a person with a disability during testimony in certain criminal cases.
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Texas House Bill HB463

Filed
11/12/24  
Out of House Committee
4/17/25  
Voted on by Senate
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to certain pretrial hearings for defendants charged with certain controlled substance offenses and the expunction of all records and files related to arrests for certain controlled substance offenses.
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Texas House Bill HB285

Filed
11/12/24  
Out of House Committee
4/24/25  
Voted on by Senate
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of cruelty to nonlivestock animals.
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Texas House Bill HB2355

Filed
2/3/25  
Out of House Committee
4/16/25  
Voted on by Senate
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the disclosure or release of certain information received by the attorney general regarding an application for compensation from the crime victims' compensation fund.
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Texas House Bill HB1135

Filed
11/12/24  
Out of House Committee
3/27/25  
Voted on by Senate
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to temporary vehicle tags and the offense of tampering with a governmental record.
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Texas House Bill HB2915

Voted on by House
 
Out of Senate Committee
 
Voted on by Senate
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the criminal penalty for rigging a publicly exhibited contest; increasing a criminal penalty.
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Texas House Bill HB688

Voted on by House
 
Out of Senate Committee
 
Voted on by Senate
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the applicability of the death penalty to a capital offense committed by a person with an intellectual disability.
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Texas House Bill HB355

Filed
11/12/24  
Out of House Committee
4/24/25  
Voted on by Senate
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the period within which the Texas Juvenile Justice Department must accept custody of a person committed to the department and to the consequences for the failure of the department to accept custody of the person within that period.
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Texas House Bill HB1720

Voted on by House
 
Out of Senate Committee
 
Voted on by Senate
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the creation of the criminal offense of trespass in a facility housing an animal and to restitution for property damage resulting from that trespass.