Chair
State Representative (D)
Criminal Jurisprudence
House Committee
Vice Chair
State Representative (D)
Committee members
Referred bills
| Bill | Category | Caption | Date Referred to Committee |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB 95 | Crime Judiciary Legal Issues |
Relating to the exclusion of certain witnesses during a criminal proceeding. | 02/09/2015 |
| HB 92 | Guns |
Relating to the definition of an illegal knife. | 02/09/2015 |
| HB 97 | Crime Legal Issues |
Relating to the elimination of the statute of limitations for the offenses of sexual assault and aggravated sexual assault. | 02/09/2015 |
| HB 102 | Crime Housing and Property Transportation |
Relating to the creation of the offense of cargo theft. | 02/09/2015 |
| HB 112 | Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Crime |
Relating to the prosecution of murder committed in the course of committing or attempting to commit trafficking of persons. | 02/09/2015 |
| HB 101 | Crime Technology and Communication |
Relating to the creation of the offense of unlawful disclosure of certain visual material. | 02/09/2015 |
| HB 155 | Crime Housing and Property |
Relating to the use of force in defense of property. | 02/09/2015 |
| HB 48 | Crime Executive Branch Judiciary State Agencies |
Relating to the creation of a commission to review convictions after exoneration and to prevent wrongful convictions. | 02/09/2015 |
| HB 147 | Crime Legal Issues Technology and Communication |
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of improper photography or visual recording. | 02/09/2015 |
| HB 71 | Crime Family and Children Issues |
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of indecency with a child. | 02/09/2015 |
| HB 121 | Crime Judiciary |
Relating to an alternative means of payment of certain past due criminal fines and court costs. | 02/09/2015 |
| HB 191 | Crime |
Relating to enhancing the penalties for certain repeat and habitual misdemeanor offenders. | 02/10/2015 |
| HB 211 | Crime |
Relating to resuming a criminal case after a defendant is determined to be competent to stand trial. | 02/10/2015 |
| HB 225 | Crime Health Other |
Relating to the prescription, administration, and possession of certain opioid antagonists for the treatment of a suspected overdose and a defense to prosecution for certain offenses involving controlled substances and other prohibited drugs, substances, or paraphernalia for defendants seeking assistance for a suspected overdose. | 02/10/2015 |
| HB 222 | Crime Family and Children Issues Social Issues |
Relating to the offense of continuous violence against the family. | 02/10/2015 |
| HB 189 | Crime Legal Issues |
Relating to the statute of limitations for a suit for personal injury arising from certain offenses constituting sexual abuse of a child or for certain sexual assault offenses. | 02/10/2015 |
| HB 192 | Crime Transportation |
Relating to convictions considered for purposes of enhancing the punishment for certain intoxication offenses. | 02/10/2015 |
| HB 235 | Animal Rights and Wildlife Issues Legal Issues Public Services State Agencies Technology and Communication |
Relating to a central database containing information about certain persons who have been convicted of or received a grant of deferred adjudication for certain offenses involving animal cruelty; providing a criminal penalty. | 02/10/2015 |
| HB 207 | Crime Family and Children Issues |
Relating to creating the offense of voyeurism; providing a penalty. | 02/10/2015 |
| HB 265 | Crime |
Relating to enhancing the penalty prescribed for certain acts of official oppression. | 02/11/2015 |
| HB 267 | Crime |
Relating to the joint or separate prosecution of a capital felony charged against two or more defendants. | 02/11/2015 |
| HB 460 | Crime Health Legal Issues Other Transportation |
Relating to the issuance of a search warrant for taking a blood specimen from certain persons suspected of committing certain intoxication offenses. | 02/11/2015 |
| HB 277 | Crime Judiciary |
Relating to capital murder of a prosecuting attorney or an assistant prosecuting attorney. | 02/11/2015 |
| HB 253 | Crime |
Relating to the penalty for possession of certain small amounts of controlled substances in Penalty Group 1. | 02/11/2015 |
| HB 252 | Crime Public Services |
Relating to the punishment of certain sexual offenses committed in a disaster area or an evacuated area. | 02/11/2015 |
| HB 319 | Budget, Spending, and Taxes Crime Judiciary Legal Issues |
Relating to the establishment, operation, and funding of victim-offender mediation programs. | 02/11/2015 |
| HB 282 | Crime Judiciary |
Relating to the organization of a grand jury. | 02/11/2015 |
| HB 461 | Family and Children Issues Health Transportation |
Relating to the creation of an offense for smoking tobacco in a passenger vehicle with a child present. | 02/11/2015 |
| HB 249 | Crime Executive Branch State Agencies |
Relating to the reporting of proceeds and property forfeited under criminal asset forfeiture proceedings. | 02/11/2015 |
| HB 320 | Crime Family and Children Issues Technology and Communication |
Relating to the clarification of the offense of online sexual solicitation of a minor. | 02/11/2015 |
| HB 254 | Crime Health Judiciary Other State Agencies |
Relating to the penalty for certain offenders for possession of a small amount of certain controlled substances. | 02/11/2015 |
| HB 452 | Crime Judiciary |
Relating to pretrial hearings in criminal cases in certain courts. | 02/11/2015 |
| HB 259 | Crime Environmental |
Relating to forfeiture of property used in the commission of certain littering offenses. | 02/11/2015 |
| HB 248 | Crime |
Relating to the state's burden of proof in a criminal asset forfeiture proceeding. | 02/11/2015 |
| HB 478 | Campaign Finance and Election Issues Crime |
Relating to the restoration of certain rights to a criminal defendant. | 02/12/2015 |
| HB 109 | Crime Judiciary Legal Issues |
Relating to consideration of certain mitigating evidence at the sentencing proceeding of a defendant or the disposition hearing of a child. | 02/12/2015 |
| HB 475 | Crime Family and Children Issues |
Relating to an affirmative defense available to certain students enrolled in grade level nine or above who engage in prohibited sexual contact with another student at or above that grade level. | 02/12/2015 |
| HB 381 | Crime Housing and Property Other |
Relating to the punishment for the offense of burglary of a vehicle; increasing a criminal penalty. | 02/12/2015 |
| HB 341 | Crime |
Relating to the extent of a defendant's criminal responsibility for the conduct of a coconspirator in certain felony cases. | 02/12/2015 |
| HB 329 | Budget, Spending, and Taxes Crime |
Relating to orders of nondisclosure issued for records of certain fine-only misdemeanors; authorizing a fee. | 02/12/2015 |
| HB 333 | Crime Judiciary Other |
Relating to certain procedures for defendants who successfully complete a period of state jail felony community supervision. | 02/12/2015 |
| HB 334 | Crime Health Public Services State Agencies |
Relating to a defense to prosecution of the offense of Medicaid fraud. | 02/12/2015 |
| HB 325 | Crime |
Relating to the prosecution of and penalties for possession of 0.35 ounces or less of marihuana. | 02/12/2015 |
| HB 196 | Crime Judiciary Legal Issues |
Relating to consideration of certain mitigating evidence at the sentencing proceeding of a defendant or the disposition hearing of a child. | 02/12/2015 |
| HB 266 | Crime Family and Children Issues State Agencies |
Relating to offenses involving violating the civil rights of a person in custody and engaging in improper sexual activity with a person in custody; providing certain enhanced penalties. | 02/12/2015 |
| HB 380 | Crime Judiciary Legal Issues |
Relating to consideration of certain mitigating evidence at the sentencing proceeding of a defendant or the disposition hearing of a child. | 02/12/2015 |
| HB 480 | Crime Judiciary |
Relating to retaining a reserve investigator by a prosecuting attorney. | 02/12/2015 |
| HB 273 | Crime Environmental Municipal and County Issues |
Relating to the minimum term of confinement for an offense of illegal dumping in a municipality. | 02/12/2015 |
| HB 366 | Crime Technology and Communication |
Relating to the sealing of applications and orders for the installation and use of mobile tracking devices in certain law enforcement investigations. | 02/12/2015 |
| HB 328 | Crime |
Relating to the punishment for the offense of attempted murder. | 02/12/2015 |
| HB 472 | Crime Judiciary Other |
Relating to the reporting and disposition of proceeds and property from criminal asset forfeiture. | 02/12/2015 |
| HB 326 | Crime Judiciary Legal Issues Other Technology and Communication |
Relating to information provided by electronic means in support of the issuance of a search warrant. | 02/12/2015 |
| HB 362 | Crime |
Relating to notification provided to certain victims of criminal offenses. | 02/12/2015 |
| HB 348 | Crime Judiciary Legal Issues |
Relating to the punishment for certain conduct constituting the offense of official oppression and to the statute of limitation on prosecution of that conduct. | 02/12/2015 |
| HB 488 | Crime |
Relating to the designation of certain synthetic compounds to Penalty Group 2 or 2-A of the Texas Controlled Substances Act. | 02/12/2015 |
| HB 538 | Crime Judiciary Municipal and County Issues |
Relating to judicial and law enforcement authority in certain municipalities on a segment of a highway or street that abuts property located in the municipality. | 02/16/2015 |
| HB 510 | Crime Legal Issues |
Relating to disclosure of certain information about expert witnesses in a criminal case. | 02/16/2015 |
| HB 404 | Crime Family and Children Issues |
Relating to prohibitions on certain employment and volunteer activity for certain sex offenders; amending provisions subject to a criminal penalty. | 02/16/2015 |
| HB 511 | Crime State Agencies |
Relating to the prosecution of certain offenses committed against a person in custody. | 02/16/2015 |
| HB 414 | Crime Legal Issues Other Transportation |
Relating to the penalties for possession of one ounce or less of marihuana or a synthetic cannabinoid. | 02/16/2015 |
| HB 517 | Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Crime Legal Issues |
Relating to evidence or testimony given by certain witnesses in a criminal case based on the trafficking of persons. | 02/16/2015 |
| HB 530 | Crime Education Executive Branch |
Relating to the use of proceeds from criminal asset forfeiture to provide college scholarships to children of peace officers killed in the line of duty and to an annual report regarding the total value of forfeited property in this state. | 02/16/2015 |
| HB 507 | Crime Transportation |
Relating to a civil action to collect a civil penalty for possession of certain small amounts of marihuana and an exception to prosecution for possession of associated drug paraphernalia. | 02/16/2015 |
| HB 521 | Crime |
Relating to the punishment for the offense of manslaughter. | 02/16/2015 |
| HB 518 | Crime Other |
Relating to certain waivers by a defendant regarding a community supervision revocation hearing. | 02/16/2015 |
| HB 403 | Crime Other |
Relating to the penalty for certain offenders for possession of a small amount of certain controlled substances. | 02/16/2015 |
| HB 496 | Business and Consumers Commerce Crime Judiciary Legal Issues Other Technology and Communication |
Relating to civil and criminal liability for the unlawful disclosure or promotion of certain intimate visual material; creating an offense. | 02/16/2015 |
| HB 561 | Crime Judiciary |
Relating to the secrecy of grand jury proceedings. | 02/18/2015 |
| HB 498 | Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Crime Family and Children Issues Other Social Issues |
Relating to the violation of certain court orders or conditions of bond in a family violence, sexual assault or abuse, stalking, or trafficking case. | 02/18/2015 |
| HB 564 | Crime Legal Issues |
Relating to the admissibility of certain evidence in capital cases in which the state seeks the death penalty. | 02/18/2015 |
| HB 553 | Crime Education |
Relating to the repeal of the offense of homosexual conduct. | 02/18/2015 |
| HB 573 | Campaign Finance and Election Issues Guns |
Relating to a defense to prosecution for the offense of possessing or carrying a firearm on the premises of a polling place. | 02/18/2015 |
| HB 563 | Crime |
Relating to the prosecution of and punishment for the offense of official oppression. | 02/18/2015 |
| HB 560 | Crime Judiciary |
Relating to the qualifications for service as a grand juror. | 02/18/2015 |
| HB 580 | Crime Legal Issues |
Relating to the statute of limitations for aggravated assault. | 02/18/2015 |
| HB 559 | Crime Immigration Judiciary |
Relating to the duties of a magistrate to inform an arrested person of consequences of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere. | 02/18/2015 |
| HB 629 | Education Judiciary Other |
Relating to a person's ability to read and write in English as a qualification for service as a petit juror. | 02/19/2015 |
| HB 597 | Crime |
Relating to the designation for criminal prosecution and other purposes of certain chemicals commonly referred to as synthetic cannabinoids as controlled substances and controlled substance analogues under the Texas Controlled Substances Act; amending provisions subject to a criminal penalty. | 02/19/2015 |
| HB 595 | Crime |
Relating to the addition of certain substances to Penalty Groups 1-A and 2 of the Texas Controlled Substances Act for criminal prosecution and other purposes. | 02/19/2015 |
| HB 644 | Crime Legal Issues |
Relating to the contents of a search warrant and to the offense of tampering with a governmental record consisting of a search warrant. | 02/19/2015 |
| HB 673 | Crime Transportation |
Relating to the amount of certain controlled substances in the body constituting intoxication for purposes of certain intoxication offenses. | 02/19/2015 |
| HB 653 | Crime Gambling and Gaming Recreation |
Relating to the prosecution of money laundering involving the proceeds of the offense of possession of a gambling device or gambling equipment or paraphernalia. | 02/19/2015 |
| HB 815 | Crime Family and Children Issues Technology and Communication |
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of online solicitation of a minor. | 02/23/2015 |
| HB 803 | Crime Judiciary |
Relating to the filing of a complaint for certain misdemeanor offenses. | 02/23/2015 |
| HB 603 | Crime Technology and Communication |
Relating to civil and criminal liability for the unlawful disclosure or promotion of certain intimate visual material; creating an offense. | 02/23/2015 |
| HB 759 | Crime State Agencies |
Relating to the maximum cumulative period allowed for restoration of a defendant's competency to stand trial and to certain time credits awarded against that cumulative period. | 02/23/2015 |
| HB 692 | Crime Housing and Property Legal Issues |
Relating to compensation under the Crime Victims' Compensation Act for damages to real property suffered as a result of a person evading arrest or detention. | 02/23/2015 |
| HB 768 | Crime Family and Children Issues |
Relating to the penalty for causing certain assaultive physical contact with a child. | 02/23/2015 |
| HB 777 | Crime |
Relating to the punishment for the offense of indecent exposure. | 02/23/2015 |
| HB 794 | Crime Legal Issues |
Relating to a presumption regarding certain evidence of a prior conviction in a criminal proceeding. | 02/23/2015 |
| HB 749 | Crime Judiciary Municipal and County Issues |
Relating to the dismissal of a case within the jurisdiction of a municipal court if a peace officer fails to appear for trial. | 02/23/2015 |
| HB 713 | Crime |
Relating to the forfeiture of property used to facilitate or intended to be used to facilitate the commission of certain misdemeanor prostitution offenses. | 02/23/2015 |
| HB 896 | Crime Science and Medical Research Technology and Communication |
Relating to creating a criminal offense regarding the breach of computer security. | 02/26/2015 |
| HB 1012 | Crime |
Relating to the state's burden of proof in certain criminal asset forfeiture proceedings. | 03/02/2015 |
| HB 888 | Crime Family and Children Issues |
Relating to the punishment for the offense of making a false report or statement regarding a missing child; increasing a criminal penalty. | 03/02/2015 |
| HB 1010 | Crime Executive Branch Judiciary Legal Issues |
Relating to the disclosure of certain information and evidence by a prosecutor in a criminal case. | 03/02/2015 |
| HB 981 | Crime |
Relating to the offense of manslaughter; increasing the penalty for certain offenders. | 03/02/2015 |
| HB 989 | Crime Guns |
Relating to defenses and exceptions to the prosecution of the criminal offense of the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of certain prohibited explosive weapons, firearms, and related items. | 03/02/2015 |
| HB 1014 | Crime Legal Issues |
Relating to the expunction of arrest records and files relating to certain nonviolent offenses. | 03/02/2015 |
| HB 1057 | Crime Family and Children Issues Housing and Property Other Social Issues |
Relating to certain conditions imposed on defendants convicted of an offense of graffiti or juveniles adjudicated as having engaged in conduct involving graffiti. | 03/02/2015 |
| HB 1064 | Crime Family and Children Issues Health |
Relating to prohibiting certain sex offenders from working or residing within or otherwise going in, on, or within a certain distance of premises where children commonly gather; providing a penalty. | 03/02/2015 |
| HB 877 | Crime Guns |
Relating to creating the offense of intimidation by a member of a criminal street gang. | 03/02/2015 |
| HB 1032 | Crime Judiciary |
Relating to abolishing the death penalty. | 03/02/2015 |
| HB 1055 | Budget, Spending, and Taxes Crime Judiciary Other |
Relating to expanding the category of persons required to pay certain costs on conviction imposed for the support of drug court programs. | 03/02/2015 |
| HB 1076 | Crime Judiciary Other |
Relating to the authority of a magistrate to prohibit certain communications in an order for emergency protection; amending provisions subject to a criminal penalty. | 03/02/2015 |
| HB 1061 | Crime |
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of interference with public duties. | 03/02/2015 |
| HB 865 | Crime Judiciary |
Relating to the recording of certain grand jury proceedings that involve a peace officer. | 03/02/2015 |
| HB 1115 | Crime Judiciary |
Relating to the appearance of certain misdemeanor defendants before a magistrate. | 03/02/2015 |
| HB 883 | Budget, Spending, and Taxes Crime Housing and Property Other |
Relating to the punishment for the offense of graffiti and the creation of a graffiti pretrial diversion program; authorizing a fee. | 03/02/2015 |
| HB 1108 | Crime Judiciary |
Relating to the determination of whether jurors in a criminal case have good cause for not performing their duties. | 03/02/2015 |
| HB 1099 | Crime Health |
Relating to the prosecution of certain offenses involving the delivery or possession of controlled substances and other prohibited drugs, substances, or paraphernalia. | 03/02/2015 |
| HB 1082 | Crime Transportation |
Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of obstructing a highway or other passageway. | 03/02/2015 |
| HB 1123 | Crime Family and Children Issues Legal Issues Other |
Relating to increasing the punishment for the offense of possession or promotion of child pornography; changing the eligibility for parole. | 03/02/2015 |
| HB 1253 | Judiciary |
Relating to appointment of a grand jury. | 03/03/2015 |
| HB 1286 | Crime Family and Children Issues Health Labor and Employment Senior Issues |
Relating to the prosecution and punishment of the offense of injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual. | 03/03/2015 |
| HB 1245 | Crime Executive Branch Other Transportation |
Relating to changing the eligibility of inmates convicted of certain intoxication offenses for release on parole or mandatory supervision and to a biennial study regarding prevention of intoxication offenses. | 03/03/2015 |
| HB 1264 | Crime Health Legal Issues Transportation |
Relating to the preservation of toxicological evidence collected in connection with certain intoxication offenses. | 03/03/2015 |
| HB 1166 | Crime Judiciary Legal Issues Technology and Communication |
Relating to sworn statements and other documentation provided to support the issuance of a search warrant. | 03/03/2015 |
| HB 1159 | Crime Education Family and Children Issues Guns Health |
Relating to the use of certain disciplinary actions against a child; providing a criminal penalty. | 03/03/2015 |
| HB 1181 | Budget, Spending, and Taxes Crime |
Relating to the maintenance of information entered into a fee record. | 03/03/2015 |
| HB 1441 | Judiciary Other |
Relating to the collection and disclosure of certain grand jury information. | 03/04/2015 |
| HB 1447 | Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Crime Legal Issues Other |
Relating to protective orders for certain victims of sexual assault or abuse, stalking, or trafficking. | 03/04/2015 |
| HB 1446 | Crime Executive Branch Legal Issues |
Relating to reimbursement of certain medical costs for victims of certain sex offenses, compensation to victims of stalking for relocation and housing rental expenses, and the creation of a governor's program for victims of child sex trafficking. | 03/04/2015 |
| HB 853 | Crime Executive Branch Family and Children Issues Judiciary |
Relating to the confidentiality of information identifying children who are victims of certain offenses; creating an offense. | 03/04/2015 |
| HB 1481 | Crime Science and Medical Research Technology and Communication |
Relating to prohibiting the operation of an unmanned aircraft over certain facilities; creating a criminal offense. | 03/05/2015 |
| HB 1293 | Crime Executive Branch Other |
Relating to the confidentiality of identifying information of victims of stalking; creating a criminal offense. | 03/05/2015 |
| HB 1291 | Budget, Spending, and Taxes Commerce Crime Housing and Property |
Relating to the fees collected by prosecutors for collection and processing of certain checks or similar sight orders. | 03/05/2015 |
| HB 1346 | Crime Judiciary Legal Issues Welfare and Poverty |
Relating to the representation of certain indigent applicants for a writ of habeas corpus. | 03/05/2015 |
| HB 1342 | Crime |
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of sexual assault committed against certain victims. | 03/09/2015 |
| HB 1363 | Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Crime |
Relating to the prosecution of and punishment for the offense of prostitution; creating a criminal offense. | 03/09/2015 |
| HB 1570 | Crime |
Relating to the punishment for the offense of burglary. | 03/09/2015 |
| HB 1566 | Crime Transportation |
Relating to conditions of bond for defendants charged with certain offenses involving the operation of a motor vehicle while intoxicated. | 03/09/2015 |
| HB 1627 | Crime Housing and Property |
Relating to the use of deadly force in defense of a person or property. | 03/09/2015 |
| HB 1669 | Crime |
Relating to increasing the punishment for subsequent convictions for indecent exposure. | 03/09/2015 |
| HB 1496 | Crime Legal Issues Science and Medical Research |
Relating to search warrants issued to obtain a DNA specimen through a buccal swab or another method. | 03/09/2015 |
| HB 1343 | Crime |
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of sexual assault committed against certain victims. | 03/09/2015 |
| HB 1382 | Crime |
Relating to the procedure for rearrest and adjustment of the bond amount in certain criminal cases. | 03/09/2015 |
| HB 1655 | Crime Legal Issues |
Relating to the expunction of certain files and records arising from a criminal investigation; creating a criminal offense. | 03/09/2015 |
| HB 1386 | Crime Judiciary Municipal and County Issues |
Relating to the prohibition of more than one counsel appearing in a misdemeanor case. | 03/09/2015 |
| HB 1358 | Crime Family and Children Issues Health |
Relating to a presumption that applies to certain conduct involving certain controlled substances that endangers a child. | 03/09/2015 |
| HB 1375 | Crime Family and Children Issues Health Other |
Relating to creating a defense to revocation of parole, mandatory supervision, or community supervision for a person who travels through a child safety zone. | 03/09/2015 |
| HB 1663 | Crime |
Relating to a defendant's payment of costs associated with a court-appointed counsel. | 03/09/2015 |
| HB 861 | Crime Family and Children Issues Technology and Communication |
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of online solicitation of a minor. | 03/09/2015 |
| HB 1424 | Crime |
Relating to increasing penalties for defendants convicted of the manufacture or delivery of certain controlled substances. | 03/09/2015 |
| HB 1503 | Crime Other |
Relating to the rights of certain defendants who successfully complete a term of community supervision. | 03/09/2015 |
| HB 1396 | Crime Legal Issues Technology and Communication |
Relating to certain criminal offenses, punishments, and procedures; the construction of certain statutes and rules that create or define criminal offenses and penalties; a review of certain penal laws of this state. | 03/10/2015 |
| HB 1516 | Crime |
Relating to the bill of costs provided to a defendant before the costs are payable. | 03/10/2015 |
| HB 1530 | Crime Housing and Property |
Relating to the punishment for certain offenses against property or against public administration. | 03/10/2015 |
| HB 1527 | Crime Judiciary |
Relating to abolishing the death penalty. | 03/10/2015 |
| HB 1523 | Crime Education |
Relating to the repeal of the offense of homosexual conduct. | 03/11/2015 |
| HB 1845 | Crime Family and Children Issues |
Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for causing certain assaultive physical contact with a child. | 03/11/2015 |
| HB 1882 | Crime Judiciary Legal Issues |
Relating to notice requirements for certain witnesses who are scheduled to appear before a grand jury. | 03/11/2015 |
| HB 1877 | Crime Legal Issues Technology and Communication |
Relating to civil and criminal liability for the disclosure of certain visual material on the Internet; creating a criminal offense. | 03/11/2015 |
| HB 2005 | Crime Technology and Communication |
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of improper photography or visual recording; increasing a criminal penalty. | 03/11/2015 |
| HB 2165 | Crime State Agencies |
Relating to repealing marihuana offenses; prohibiting the sale or distribution of marihuana to a minor; creating criminal offenses. | 03/12/2015 |
| HB 1829 | Crime Recreation |
Relating to increasing the punishment for assault committed against certain sports participants. | 03/12/2015 |
| HB 1975 | Crime Housing and Property |
Relating to the state's burden of proof in certain asset forfeiture proceedings under the Code of Criminal Procedure. | 03/12/2015 |
| HB 1812 | Budget, Spending, and Taxes Crime Family and Children Issues Municipal and County Issues Social Issues |
Relating to grants awarded to reimburse counties for the cost of monitoring defendants and victims in criminal cases involving family violence. | 03/12/2015 |
| HB 1758 | Crime Legislative Affairs State Agencies |
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of obstruction or retaliation; creating a criminal offense. | 03/12/2015 |
| HB 1955 | Commerce Crime Other |
Relating to false or misleading packaging, labeling, or advertising of certain abusable synthetic substances; providing civil penalties; creating a criminal offense. | 03/12/2015 |
| HB 2150 | Crime Judiciary |
Relating to the organization of a grand jury. | 03/12/2015 |
| HB 2185 | Crime Legal Issues Municipal and County Issues Science and Medical Research |
Relating to the execution of a search warrant for taking a DNA specimen. | 03/12/2015 |
| HB 1721 | Health Labor and Employment Transportation |
Relating to the criminal and civil prosecution of certain offenses involving parking in a space designated for persons with disabilities. | 03/12/2015 |
| HB 2170 | Crime |
Relating to enhancing the penalties for certain repeat and habitual misdemeanor offenders. | 03/12/2015 |
| HB 2061 | Crime |
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of prostitution. | 03/13/2015 |
| HB 2116 | Crime Technology and Communication |
Relating to the expenditure of proceeds or property received from criminal asset forfeiture. | 03/13/2015 |
| HB 2059 | Crime Sexual Orientation and Gender Issues |
Relating to an offense committed against a person because of bias or prejudice on the basis of gender identity or expression. | 03/13/2015 |
| HB 2057 | Crime Education |
Relating to the repeal of the offense of homosexual conduct. | 03/13/2015 |
| HB 2054 | Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Crime Family and Children Issues |
Relating to increased penalties for the offense of trafficking of persons that involves a child victim or the death of any victim. | 03/13/2015 |
| HB 2110 | Crime |
Relating to the scheduling of an execution date and the issuance of a warrant of execution. | 03/13/2015 |
| HB 2438 | Crime Science and Medical Research |
Relating to postconviction forensic DNA analysis. | 03/13/2015 |
| HB 2435 | Crime Science and Medical Research |
Relating to postconviction forensic DNA analysis. | 03/13/2015 |
| HB 2409 | Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Crime Family and Children Issues Guns Municipal and County Issues Other Social Issues |
Relating to the storage of firearms surrendered by a person subject to a magistrate's order for emergency protection or protective order as a result of family violence, sexual assault or abuse, stalking, or trafficking of persons. | 03/13/2015 |
| HB 2299 | Crime Legal Issues Other |
Relating to the nonsubstantive revision of certain laws concerning community supervision granted in criminal cases, including conforming amendments. | 03/16/2015 |
| HB 2525 | Crime Judiciary Welfare and Poverty |
Relating to the appointment of counsel to represent indigent defendants in criminal cases. | 03/16/2015 |
| HB 2970 | Crime Executive Branch Family and Children Issues Legal Issues |
Relating to the use of money paid as restitution to or on behalf of certain individuals depicted in child pornography. | 03/16/2015 |
| HB 2499 | Crime Technology and Communication |
Relating to the electronic filing of bail bonds. | 03/16/2015 |
| HB 2880 | Crime |
Relating to the placement of certain substances in Penalty Groups 2 and 2-A of the Texas Controlled Substances Act for the purpose of prosecution of criminal offenses involving those substances. | 03/16/2015 |
| HB 2301 | Crime |
Relating to time credits awarded against the cumulative period of commitment or treatment of certain defendants determined to be incompetent to stand trial. | 03/16/2015 |
| HB 2777 | Crime Family and Children Issues Legal Issues Social Issues |
Relating to the admissibility of certain evidence in the prosecution of certain assaultive offenses involving family violence. | 03/16/2015 |
| HB 2300 | Crime Technology and Communication |
Relating to eliminating telegraph transmission as a method to communicate certain information in a criminal case. | 03/16/2015 |
| HB 2617 | Crime Judiciary |
Relating to reorganizing the grand jury as the probable cause jury. | 03/16/2015 |
| HB 2645 | Crime Family and Children Issues Social Issues |
Relating to the prosecution of certain offenses involving family violence and to the violation of certain court orders or conditions of bond in a family violence, sexual assault or abuse, or stalking case. | 03/16/2015 |
| HB 2623 | Crime Legal Issues Military |
Relating to forfeiture actions by the federal government and to the transfer of seized property between certain state and federal entities. | 03/16/2015 |
| HB 2302 | Crime |
Relating to the mandatory dismissal of misdemeanor charges against certain defendants determined to be incompetent to stand trial. | 03/16/2015 |
| HB 2319 | Crime |
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of prostitution; increasing a criminal penalty. | 03/16/2015 |
| HB 2589 | Crime Family and Children Issues Health Labor and Employment |
Relating to the prosecution of and punishment for assaulting a disabled individual; increasing a criminal penalty. | 03/16/2015 |
| HB 2653 | Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Crime Other |
Relating to protective orders for certain victims of sexual assault or abuse, stalking, or trafficking. | 03/16/2015 |
| HB 2907 | Budget, Spending, and Taxes Health Legal Issues Legislative Affairs Other State Agencies Transportation |
Relating to allowing deferred adjudication community supervision for first-time offenders charged with certain intoxication offenses, requiring the use of an ignition interlock device on conviction of or placement on deferred adjudication for certain intoxication offenses, and authorizing ethyl alcohol monitoring as a condition of community supervision for certain intoxication offenses; imposing a fee. | 03/16/2015 |
| HB 2658 | Crime |
Relating to the courts authorized to hear certain matters relating to a capias pro fine. | 03/16/2015 |
| HB 2291 | Crime Family and Children Issues Legal Issues |
Relating to the payment of restitution to certain individuals depicted in child pornography and to increasing the punishment for certain individuals convicted of the offense of possession or promotion of child pornography. | 03/16/2015 |
| HB 2969 | Crime Judiciary Welfare and Poverty |
Relating to the provision of funding for indigent defense services. | 03/16/2015 |
| HB 2565 | State Agencies |
Relating to the creation of a commission to review certain penal laws of this state. | 03/16/2015 |
| HJR 112 | Crime Judiciary Legislative Affairs |
Proposing a constitutional amendment to change the composition of the grand jury. | 03/17/2015 |
| HB 2286 | Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Crime Legal Issues |
Relating to the eligibility of certain victims of trafficking of persons for an order of nondisclosure; authorizing a fee. | 03/17/2015 |
| HB 3388 | Budget, Spending, and Taxes Crime Municipal and County Issues State Agencies |
Relating to increasing the fee on conviction paid by a defendant for a peace officer committing or releasing the defendant. | 03/17/2015 |
| HB 3338 | Crime Judiciary Welfare and Poverty |
Relating to the appointment of counsel for indigent defendants arrested for, charged with, or taking appeal from a conviction of an assault punishable by fine only. | 03/17/2015 |
| HB 3276 | Crime Judiciary Legal Issues |
Relating to automatic expunction of arrest records and files for certain persons who are tried for an offense and subsequently acquitted. | 03/17/2015 |
| HB 3312 | Crime Health Legal Issues Transportation |
Relating to the taking of an additional specimen of a person's blood on arrest for certain intoxication offenses. | 03/17/2015 |
| HB 3326 | Crime Housing and Property |
Relating to decreasing the punishment for certain criminal offenses. | 03/17/2015 |
| HB 2263 | Crime Legal Issues Public Services State Agencies Technology and Communication |
Relating to warrants or orders issued to obtain location information from wireless communications devices and to public access to law enforcement or prosecutor requests for certain related location or communication information. | 03/17/2015 |
| HB 3415 | Crime Legal Issues |
Relating to the award of court costs, storage fees, and attorney's fees in a criminal asset forfeiture proceeding. | 03/17/2015 |
| HB 3455 | Crime |
Relating to the rights of victims of sexual assault. | 03/18/2015 |
| HB 3500 | Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Crime Legal Issues |
Relating to judicial proceedings on a petition to set aside a conviction or an order of expunction of criminal history record information for certain victims of trafficking of persons or compelling prostitution who are convicted of prostitution. | 03/18/2015 |
| HB 3740 | Crime Science and Medical Research |
Relating to the creation of DNA records for a person arrested for a Class A misdemeanor or felony offense. | 03/19/2015 |
| HB 3633 | Crime Judiciary Legal Issues Welfare and Poverty |
Relating to reimbursement for the costs of legal services provided to an indigent defendant in a criminal case. | 03/19/2015 |
| HB 3578 | Crime Legal Issues |
Relating to the date on which certain criminal defendants are eligible to file a petition for an order of nondisclosure. | 03/20/2015 |
| HB 3580 | Crime Legal Issues |
Relating to the procedure for an application for a writ of habeas corpus after a plea of guilty or nolo contendere. | 03/20/2015 |
| HB 3579 | Crime Legal Issues |
Relating to certain criminal history record information; authorizing a fee. | 03/20/2015 |
| HB 3553 | Business and Consumers Crime Labor and Employment Municipal and County Issues Other |
Relating to the definition of peace officer for purposes of intercepting or collecting information in relation to certain communications in an investigation of criminal conduct. | 03/20/2015 |
| HB 3557 | Crime State Agencies |
Relating to the reporting of the seizure and forfeiture of contraband. | 03/20/2015 |
| HB 3884 | Crime Guns |
Relating to the carrying of knives; creating a criminal offense. | 03/23/2015 |
| HB 3977 | Crime Family and Children Issues Health Other |
Relating to increasing the penalty for causing injury to a child; changing the eligibility for community supervision. | 03/23/2015 |
| HB 4014 | Crime Transportation |
Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for certain offenses committed on the premises of a public transportation system | 03/23/2015 |
| HB 3799 | Crime Legal Issues Other State Agencies |
Relating to the expunction of certain drug-related offenses following successful treatment and rehabilitation. | 03/23/2015 |
| HB 4007 | Budget, Spending, and Taxes Crime Municipal and County Issues Other State Agencies |
Relating to procedures applicable to a person released on parole or to mandatory supervision and charged with certain new offenses or an administrative violation of a condition of release. | 03/23/2015 |
| HB 3196 | Crime Technology and Communication |
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of improper photography or visual recording; increasing a criminal penalty. | 03/23/2015 |
| HB 4050 | Budget, Spending, and Taxes Crime Health Judiciary Municipal and County Issues |
Relating to certain fees paid by political subdivisions in connection with the ordering or performance of an autopsy. | 03/23/2015 |
| HB 3889 | Crime Public Services State Agencies |
Relating to adding certain substances to Penalty Group 2 of the Texas Controlled Substances Act for purposes of criminal prosecutions involving those substances, increasing penalties for the manufacture of, delivery of, or possession with the intent to deliver certain controlled substances, and a pilot program for field testing for controlled substances. | 03/23/2015 |
| HB 3959 | Other Transportation |
Relating to a criminal penalty for violating a condition of bond, condition of community supervision, or court order requiring installation of an ignition interlock device. | 03/23/2015 |
| HB 3807 | Crime Family and Children Issues Health |
Relating to the punishment of certain controlled substance offenses committed in a drug-free zone. | 03/23/2015 |
| HB 3985 | Crime |
Relating to the prosecution and punishment of the use of benzodiazepines or gamma butyrolactone to facilitate the commission of the offense of aggravated sexual assault and the addition of gamma butyrolactone to Penalty Group 1 of the Texas Controlled Substances Act for purposes of criminal prosecution; amending provisions subject to a criminal penalty. | 03/23/2015 |
| HB 4077 | Environmental |
Relating to adding carbon dioxide in compressed canisters to the definition of abusable volatile chemicals; requiring a volatile chemical sales permit to sell carbon dioxide canisters; amending provisions subject to criminal and administrative penalties. | 03/23/2015 |
| HB 3759 | Crime Judiciary |
Relating to the role of a jury in a criminal case. | 03/23/2015 |
| HB 3797 | Crime Family and Children Issues Technology and Communication |
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of online solicitation of a minor. | 03/23/2015 |
| HB 3743 | Transportation |
Relating to increasing the punishment for an offense involving the operation of a motor vehicle while intoxicated in which the actor causes bodily injury to another. | 03/23/2015 |
| HB 3751 | Crime Family and Children Issues |
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of aggravated kidnapping; creating an offense. | 03/23/2015 |
| HB 3046 | Crime |
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of failure to identify; creating a criminal offense. | 03/23/2015 |
| HB 3209 | Crime Legal Issues |
Relating to the elimination of the statute of limitations for certain felony offenses. | 03/23/2015 |
| HB 4104 | Judiciary Municipal and County Issues |
Relating to the disposition of fines and costs imposed on an appeal of a misdemeanor case from municipal court. | 03/23/2015 |
| HB 3169 | Legal Issues Technology and Communication |
Relating to requiring the consent of all parties to legally intercept certain communications. | 03/23/2015 |
| HB 3191 | Crime Family and Children Issues Health |
Relating to the penalty for delivery of certain miscellaneous substances under the Texas Controlled Substances Act; increasing a criminal penalty. | 03/23/2015 |
| HB 4071 | Crime Legal Issues |
Relating to certain body cavity searches conducted by a peace officer. | 03/23/2015 |
| HB 3184 | Crime Family and Children Issues Legal Issues |
Relating to the establishment, operation, and funding of victim-offender mediation programs; authorizing fees. | 03/24/2015 |
| HB 3936 | Crime Legal Issues Other |
Relating to the eligibility of criminal defendants for an order of nondisclosure of criminal history record information; authorizing a fee. | 03/24/2015 |
| HB 3893 | Crime Judiciary |
Relating to the recording and disclosure of certain grand jury proceedings that involve a governmental employee. | 03/24/2015 |
| HB 4045 | Crime Judiciary Legal Issues Municipal and County Issues |
Relating to the issuance of certain search warrants. | 03/24/2015 |
| HB 3855 | Judiciary Municipal and County Issues |
Relating to the courts authorized to hear certain matters relating to a capias pro fine. | 03/24/2015 |
| HB 3724 | Crime Legal Issues |
Relating to the consideration of certain scientific evidence constituting the basis for an application for a writ of habeas corpus. | 03/25/2015 |
| HB 4019 | Crime Gambling and Gaming Recreation Technology and Communication |
Relating to the operation of a sports betting website and the placement of a bet through a sports betting website; creating a criminal offense. | 04/01/2015 |
| SB 135 | Crime Judiciary |
Relating to the organization of a grand jury. | 04/15/2015 |
| SB 345 | Crime Science and Medical Research Technology and Communication |
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of breach of computer security. | 04/15/2015 |
| SB 112 | Crime Judiciary Other |
Relating to the authority of a magistrate to prohibit certain communications in an order for emergency protection; amending provisions subject to a criminal penalty. | 04/17/2015 |
| SB 344 | Crime Family and Children Issues Technology and Communication |
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of online solicitation of a minor. | 04/27/2015 |
| SB 268 | Crime Immigration Judiciary |
Relating to the duties of a magistrate to inform an arrested person of consequences of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere. | 04/29/2015 |
| SB 662 | Crime Judiciary Legal Issues Welfare and Poverty |
Relating to the representation of certain indigent applicants for a writ of habeas corpus. | 04/29/2015 |
| SB 172 | Crime |
Relating to the addition of certain substances to Penalty Groups 1-A and 2 of the Texas Controlled Substances Act for criminal prosecution and other purposes. | 04/30/2015 |
| SB 473 | Crime Guns |
Relating to defenses and exceptions to the prosecution of the criminal offense of the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of certain prohibited explosive weapons, firearms, and related items. | 04/30/2015 |
| SB 487 | Crime Legal Issues Science and Medical Research |
Relating to postconviction forensic DNA analysis. | 04/30/2015 |
| SB 1135 | Business and Consumers Commerce Crime Legal Issues |
Relating to civil and criminal liability for the unlawful disclosure or promotion of certain intimate visual material; creating an offense. | 04/30/2015 |
| SB 316 | Crime Judiciary Welfare and Poverty |
Relating to the prioritization of certain available legal defense services when appointing representation for an indigent defendant in a criminal case. | 04/30/2015 |
| SB 173 | Crime |
Relating to the designation for criminal prosecution and other purposes of certain chemicals commonly referred to as synthetic cannabinoids as controlled substances and controlled substance analogues under the Texas Controlled Substances Act. | 04/30/2015 |
| SB 461 | Commerce Crime Other |
Relating to false or misleading packaging, labeling, or advertising of certain abusable synthetic substances; providing civil penalties; creating a criminal offense. | 04/30/2015 |
| SB 236 | Crime Family and Children Issues Health |
Relating to the punishment of certain controlled substance offenses committed in a drug-free zone. | 04/30/2015 |
| SB 630 | Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Crime Other |
Relating to protective orders for certain victims of sexual assault or abuse, stalking, or trafficking. | 04/30/2015 |
| SB 1071 | Crime |
Relating to requiring notice of the scheduling of an execution date and the issuance of a warrant of execution. | 04/30/2015 |
| SB 1070 | Crime Health Other State Agencies |
Relating to allowing certain defendants to successfully complete education at a substance abuse treatment facility in lieu of attending an education program; changing required conditions of community supervision for certain defendants. | 04/30/2015 |
| SB 873 | Crime Judiciary Municipal and County Issues |
Relating to the courts authorized to hear certain matters relating to a capias pro fine. | 04/30/2015 |
| SB 746 | Crime Health Judiciary State Agencies |
Relating to the civil commitment of sexually violent predators; amending provisions subject to criminal penalties. | 04/30/2015 |
| SB 825 | Crime |
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of prostitution. | 04/30/2015 |
| SB 147 | Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Crime Family and Children Issues Other Social Issues |
Relating to the violation of certain court orders or conditions of bond in a family violence, sexual assault or abuse, stalking, or trafficking case; providing penalties. | 05/01/2015 |
| SB 130 | Crime |
Relating to the eligibility of criminal defendants for an order of nondisclosure; authorizing a fee. | 05/01/2015 |
| SB 1864 | Crime Legal Issues Technology and Communication |
Relating to requiring a peace officer to obtain a warrant to search a cellular telephone or other wireless communications device. | 05/01/2015 |
| SB 715 | Crime Judiciary Legal Issues Technology and Communication |
Relating to sworn statements and other documentation provided to support the issuance of a search warrant. | 05/04/2015 |
| SB 1057 | Crime Judiciary Welfare and Poverty |
Relating to the provision of funding for indigent defense services. | 05/04/2015 |
| SB 965 | Crime Judiciary Labor and Employment Municipal and County Issues |
Relating to the filing of a copy of certain records related to the release of an accused person on personal bond. | 05/04/2015 |
| SB 1828 | Crime Housing and Property Transportation |
Relating to the creation of the offense of cargo theft. | 05/04/2015 |
| SB 393 | Crime Housing and Property |
Relating to the punishment for certain offenses against property or against public administration. | 05/04/2015 |
| SB 1326 | Crime State Agencies |
Relating to the maximum cumulative period allowed for restoration of a defendant's competency to stand trial and to certain time credits awarded against that cumulative period. | 05/04/2015 |
| SB 740 | Crime Judiciary |
Relating to the assessment of court costs and fees on conviction of multiple offenses or on conviction of multiple counts of the same offense. | 05/05/2015 |
| SB 1743 | Crime Science and Medical Research Technology and Communication |
Relating to expanding the powers and duties of the office of capital writs and renaming the office of capital writs the office of capital and forensic writs. | 05/05/2015 |
| SB 2019 | Crime Legal Issues State Agencies |
Relating to the composition of the Texas Violent Gang Task Force. | 05/05/2015 |
| SB 1517 | Crime Judiciary Welfare and Poverty |
Relating to the appointment of counsel to represent indigent defendants in criminal cases. | 05/06/2015 |
| SB 1902 | Crime Public Services State Agencies |
Relating to the eligibility of criminal defendants for an order of nondisclosure of criminal history record information; authorizing a fee. | 05/06/2015 |
| SB 145 | Crime |
Relating to reimbursement of certain medical costs for victims of certain sex offenses and compensation to victims of stalking for relocation and housing rental expenses. | 05/07/2015 |
| SB 923 | Crime Legislative Affairs State Agencies |
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of obstruction or retaliation; creating a criminal offense. | 05/11/2015 |
| SB 1086 | Crime Family and Children Issues Health State Agencies |
Relating to a parent's right to view the body of a deceased child before an autopsy is performed. | 05/11/2015 |
| SB 1317 | Crime Legal Issues Technology and Communication |
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of invasive visual recording. | 05/12/2015 |
| SB 1944 | Crime Guns Health |
Relating to the disposition of a firearm seized from certain persons with mental illness. | 05/14/2015 |
| SB 779 | Crime Health Legal Issues |
Relating to access to certain medical test results in a criminal proceeding; amending provisions subject to a criminal penalty. | 05/14/2015 |
| SB 1010 | Crime Executive Branch Family and Children Issues Legal Issues |
Relating to the use of money paid as restitution to or on behalf of certain individuals depicted in child pornography. | 05/23/2015 |
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