HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

 

COMMITTEE:    Criminal Jurisprudence 

TIME & DATE:  1:00 PM or upon final adjourn./recess or bill referral if permission granted
Monday, May 3, 2021 

PLACE:       E2.010 
CHAIR:       Rep. Nicole Collier 

 

HB 2162        Raymond
Relating to the creation of the conviction integrity unit within the office of the attorney general.

HB 3392        Moody                                                 
Relating to the authority of a court to grant a commutation of punishment to certain individuals serving a term of imprisonment.

HB 3586        Sherman, Sr.                                          
Relating to the creation of the Texas Sentencing Commission and to the collection and analysis of certain criminal sentencing information.

HJR 135        Moody                                                 
Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to enact laws providing for a court to grant a commutation of punishment to certain individuals serving a term of imprisonment.

SB 568         Huffman | et al.                                       
Relating to the prosecution of and punishment for the criminal offense of failure to report certain sexual offenses committed against a child; increasing criminal penalties.

SB 768         Huffman | et al.                                       
Relating to increasing the criminal penalties for manufacture or delivery of fentanyl and related substances; creating a criminal offense.

SB 1047        Seliger | et al.                                       
Relating to the execution of a search warrant for taking a blood specimen from certain persons in certain intoxication offenses.

SB 1354        Miles | et al.                                         
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual.

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