Texas Legislature
Bills Coauthored
Sen. Paul Bettencourt
87th Legislature First Called Session
Report Date: 4/25/2024

Number of Bills: 7

SB 1 Author: Hughes
Coauthor: Bettencourt | Birdwell | Buckingham | Campbell | Creighton | et al.
Last Action: 07/13/2021 S Reported engrossed
Caption: Relating to election integrity and security, including by preventing fraud in the conduct of elections in this state; increasing criminal penalties; creating criminal offenses; providing civil penalties.

SB 2 Author: Perry
Coauthor: Bettencourt | Buckingham | Campbell | Creighton | Hughes | et al.
Last Action: 07/14/2021 S Reported engrossed
Caption: Relating to requiring public school and public institution of higher education students to compete in interscholastic athletic competitions based on biological sex.

SB 3 Author: Hughes
Coauthor: Bettencourt | Buckingham | Creighton | Hall | Kolkhorst | et al.
Last Action: 07/16/2021 S Reported engrossed
Caption: Relating to certain curriculum in public schools, including certain instructional requirements and prohibitions.

SB 4 Author: Lucio
Coauthor: Bettencourt | Birdwell | Buckingham | Campbell | Creighton | et al.
Last Action: 07/16/2021 S Reported engrossed
Caption: Relating to abortion complication reporting and the regulation of drug-induced abortion procedures, providers, and facilities; creating a criminal offense.

SB 5 Author: Hughes
Coauthor: Bettencourt | Birdwell | Buckingham | Campbell | Creighton | et al.
Last Action: 07/14/2021 S Reported engrossed
Caption: Relating to complaint procedures and disclosure requirements for, and to the censorship of users' expressions by, social media platforms.

SB 6 Author: Huffman
Coauthor: Bettencourt | Buckingham | Campbell | Creighton | Kolkhorst | et al.
Last Action: 07/13/2021 S Reported engrossed
Caption: Relating to rules for setting the amount of bail, to the release of certain defendants on a monetary bond or personal bond, to related duties of certain officers taking bail bonds and of a magistrate in a criminal case, to charitable bail organizations, and to the reporting of information pertaining to bail bonds.

SJR 3 Author: Huffman
Coauthor: Bettencourt | Buckingham | Campbell | Creighton | Kolkhorst | et al.
Last Action: 07/13/2021 S Reported engrossed
Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring a judge or magistrate to impose the least restrictive conditions of bail that may be necessary and authorizing the denial of bail under some circumstances to a person accused of a violent or sexual offense or of continuous trafficking of persons.

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