HB 27
| Guillen Ellis | Relating to the payment of fines and costs by indigent defendants in misdemeanor cases. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 215
| Gallego Ellis | Relating to photograph and live lineup identification procedures in criminal cases. |
| General Remarks: | WATCH: Requires Bill Blackwood Law Enforcement Management Institute to develop a model policy for photograph and live lineup identification procedures. Agencies would have to adopt a policy that conforms to the model policy. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 253
| Hilderbran Nelson | Relating to the protection of children by enforcing compulsory public school attendance requirements, ensuring reports of abuse, protecting children from abuse, ensuring that births are reported, and prosecuting bigamy. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 351
| Veasey West | Relating to the expunction of records and files relating to a person's arrest. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 371
| Hochberg Hegar | Relating to prohibiting deferred adjudication community supervision for certain defendants convicted of murder. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 530
| Shelton Davis, Wendy | Relating to the definition of local law enforcement authority for purposes of the sex offender registration program. |
| Last Action: | 6-17-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 649
| Gallego Hinojosa | Relating to the issuance and duration of certain protective orders for victims of sexual assault. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 748
| Menendez Van de Putte | Relating to a criminal defendant's incompetency to stand trial, to certain related time credits, and to the maximum period allowed for restoration of the defendant to competency. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 976
| Carter Carona | Relating to the issuance of a warrant or summons by a magistrate. |
| Last Action: | 6-17-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 984
| Truitt Harris | Relating to agreements between contiguous municipalities regarding jurisdiction of cases in municipal courts. |
| Last Action: | 5-19-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 994
| Castro Zaffirini | Relating to proceedings that may be referred to and the powers of a criminal law magistrate in Bexar County. |
| Last Action: | 5-27-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 1028
| Phillips Estes | Relating to certain contact between a criminal defendant and the victim of the offense of which the defendant is convicted or a member of the victim's family. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 1070
| Scott Hinojosa | Relating to the taking of a defendant's bail bond by county jailers. |
| General Remarks: | SUPPORT: Allows jailers to accept bail bonds. |
| Last Action: | 6-17-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 1103
| Lucio III Ellis | Relating to payment of a fee as a required condition of community supervision for certain criminal offenses involving animal cruelty. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 1106
| Johnson West | Relating to providing certain information to criminal defendants before a plea is entered and at the time of the dismissal of certain proceedings against the defendant. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 1113
| Raymond Zaffirini | Relating to the sentencing hearing or deferred adjudication hearing and conditions of community supervision for defendants convicted of certain offenses involving controlled substances. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 1173
| Riddle Huffman | Relating to the release on bond of certain persons arrested for a misdemeanor without a warrant in certain counties. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 1215
| McClendon Uresti | Relating to the creation of the offense of unauthorized acquisition or transfer of certain financial information. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 1573
| Gallego Carona | Relating to certain pretrial and post-trial procedures in a criminal case. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 1638
| Aliseda Whitmire | Relating to the disqualification of a district or county attorney who is the subject of a criminal investigation. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 1646
| Gallego Ellis | Relating to representation of certain applicants for writs of habeas corpus in cases involving the death penalty. |
| General Remarks: | WATCH: Requires court to appoint competant counsel for writs of habeas corpus in cases involving the death penalty. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 1658
| Davis, Yvonne Whitmire | Relating to the refund of a cash bond to a defendant in a criminal case. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 1721
| Lucio III Zaffirini | Relating to protective orders for certain victims of stalking or sexual assault. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 1754
| Gallego Ellis | Relating to the reorganization of powers and duties among entities in this state that provide representation to indigent defendants in criminal cases and to the reorganization of funding sources for indigent defense. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 1891
| Davis, Sarah Huffman | Relating to the execution of a search warrant for data or information contained in or on certain devices. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 1907
| Madden Whitmire | Relating to notification requirements concerning offenses committed by students and school district discretion over admission or placement of certain students. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 1994
| Weber Van de Putte | Relating to the creation of a first offender prostitution prevention program. |
| Last Action: | 6-17-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 2124
| Workman Huffman | Relating to victim notification regarding the release of a defendant who was acquitted by reason of insanity in a criminal case. |
| Last Action: | 6-17-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 2329
| Zedler Van de Putte | Relating to the confidentiality of certain information regarding victims of trafficking of persons and to the issuance and enforcement of protective orders to protect victims of trafficking of persons. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 2337
| Gallego Uresti | Relating to the admissibility in a court proceeding of certain statements. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 2354
| Madden Whitmire | Relating to the installation and use of a pen register, ESN reader, trap and trace device, or similar equipment in a correctional facility operated by or under contract with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 2385
| Geren Harris | Relating to the DNA database at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. |
| Last Action: | 6-17-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 2472
| Marquez Rodriguez | Relating to the reporting of certain warrant or capias information to the national crime information center. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 2624
| Sheffield Van de Putte | Relating to procedures applicable in circumstances involving family violence or other criminal conduct and military personnel. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 2662
| Hochberg Hinojosa | Relating to child abduction. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 2725
| Hartnett Williams | Relating to the determination of incompetency in criminal cases. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 2847
| Madden Whitmire | Relating to the use of video teleconferencing systems in certain criminal proceedings. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 2889
| Madden Whitmire | Relating to the expunction of records and files relating to a person's arrest. |
| Last Action: | 6-17-11 G Vetoed by the Governor |
HB 2966
| Naishtat Zaffirini | Relating to the confidentiality of certain communications and records made or collected in reference to certain sexual assault survivors. |
| Last Action: | 6-17-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 3439
| Raymond Rodriguez | Relating to missing children and missing persons. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 3475
| Gallego West | Relating to the recusal and disqualification of municipal judges pursuant to the Code of Criminal Procedure. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
HB 3746
| Frullo Carona | Relating to providing resources designed to combat crimes against children, especially crimes regarding child exploitation and child pornography trafficking involving the Internet. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
SB 24
| Van de Putte Thompson | Relating to the prosecution, punishment, and certain criminal and civil consequences of offenses involving or related to the trafficking of persons and to certain protections for victims of those offenses. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
SB 122
| Ellis Gallego | Relating to postconviction forensic DNA analysis. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
SB 144
| West Thompson | Relating to allowing a person who successfully completes a term of deferred adjudication community supervision to be eligible for a pardon. |
| Last Action: | 11- 8-11 G Earliest effective date |
SB 167
| West Veasey | Relating to the automatic expunction of arrest records and files after an individual receives a pardon or a grant of certain other relief with respect to the offense for which the individual was arrested. |
| Last Action: | 6-17-11 G Vetoed by the Governor |
SB 198
| West Smith, Todd | Relating to exempting persons who are convicted of certain sexual offenses from registering as a sex offender in this state. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
SB 250
| Zaffirini Anchia | Relating to protective orders for stalking victims. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
SB 315
| Carona Madden | Relating to the agencies and entities responsible for compiling and maintaining information pertaining to criminal combinations and criminal street gangs. |
| Last Action: | 6-17-11 G Earliest effective date |
SB 316
| Whitmire Gallego | Relating to criminal asset forfeiture, the disposition of proceeds and property from criminal asset forfeiture, and accountability for that disposition. |
| General Remarks: | WATCH: New rules and restrictions on the law enforcement use of seized assets. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
SB 462
| West Veasey | Relating to the right to an expunction of records and files relating to a person's arrest. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
SB 485
| Huffman Carter | Relating to proper venue for certain criminal prosecutions of mortgage fraud. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
SB 578
| Fraser Hartnett | Relating to the testimony of children in criminal cases. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
SB 688
| Nichols Creighton | Relating to the investigation, prosecution, and punishment of criminal Medicaid fraud and certain other offenses related to Medicaid fraud. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
SB 877
| Hinojosa Gallego | Relating to a verification of the incarceration of an accused person in a criminal case for the purpose of discharging a surety's liability on a bail bond. |
| Last Action: | 5-19-11 G Earliest effective date |
SB 882
| Whitmire Madden | Relating to the filing of a copy of certain records related to the release of accused persons on personal bond. |
| Last Action: | 6-17-11 G Earliest effective date |
SB 1010
| Huffman Workman | Relating to providing a victim, guardian of a victim, or close relative of a deceased victim with notice of a plea bargain agreement in certain criminal cases. |
| General Remarks: | CLEAT filed several bills to require a prosector to notify the survivors of an officers killed in the line of duty if they intend to offer a plea bargain in any case involving a defendant who was responsible for the officers death. These bills also allowed the family to make a statement to the judge in support or against the plea bargain. At the same time, Senator Huffman filed SB 1010 that requires the prosecutor to notify any victim or surviving family member of a victim if they intend to offer a plea bargaing. CLEAT supported this bill as well. SB 1010 passed and was signed by the governor. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
SB 1200
| Patrick, Dan Fletcher | Relating to trials for misdemeanor cases. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
SB 1209
| Whitmire Marquez | Relating to the detention of certain juvenile offenders. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
SB 1233
| West Coleman | Relating to the promotion of efficiencies in and the administration of certain county services and functions. |
| General Remarks: | SUPPORT: Allows county jailers to execute lawful process. Allows peace officers to testify before a grand jury via video teleconferencing. |
| Last Action: | 6-17-11 G Earliest effective date |
SB 1308
| Seliger McClendon | Relating to the standards for attorneys representing indigent defendants in capital cases. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
SB 1378
| Nichols Otto | Relating to the authority of the Alabama-Coushatta Indian Tribe to commission peace officers. |
| General Remarks: | WATCH: Allows Alabama-Coushatta Indian Tribe to commission peace officers. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
SB 1489
| Whitmire Madden | Relating to jurisdiction for the offenses of truancy and failure to attend school. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
SB 1522
| Hinojosa Madden | Relating to the entering of a plea in a criminal case by a defendant confined in a penal institution. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
SB 1551
| Rodriguez Raymond | Relating to missing children and missing persons. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
SB 1616
| West Gallego | Relating to the collection, storage, preservation, retrieval, and destruction of biological evidence. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
SB 1680
| Ellis Murphy | Relating to certain evidence in a prosecution of fraud or theft involving Medicaid or Medicare benefits. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
SB 1681
| Ellis Thompson | Relating to the appointment of counsel and the rights of an accused and other requirements for the purposes of appellate proceedings or community supervision revocation proceedings. |
| Last Action: | 9- 1-11 G Earliest effective date |
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