** REVISION **
SENATE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:     Criminal Justice 

TIME & DATE:   8:30 AM, Wednesday, March 1, 2023 

PLACE:         2E.20 (Betty King Cmte. Rm.) 
CHAIR:         Senator John Whitmire 

 ** MEETING CANCELED **

The committee will meet to adopt committee rules, organize, and will consider the following:

SB 287         Huffman | et al.        
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of terroristic threat.

SB 402         Whitmire               
Relating to the preference given by trial courts to hearings and trials for murder and capital murder offenses.

SB 645         Huffman                
Relating to the criminal penalties for certain controlled substance offenses; increasing a criminal penalty.

SB 1004        Huffman                
Relating to creating the criminal offense of tampering with an electronic monitoring device.

SJR 44         Huffman | et al.        
Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the denial of bail under some circumstances to a person accused of a violent or sexual offense or of continuous trafficking of persons and requiring a judge or magistrate to impose the least restrictive conditions of bail that may be necessary to ensure the person's appearance in court as required and the safety of the community, law enforcement, and the victim of the alleged offense.

** See Committee Coordinator for previous versions of the schedule **

NOTICE OF ASSISTANCE AT PUBLIC MEETINGS

PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES WHO PLAN TO ATTEND THIS MEETING AND WHO MAY NEED ASSISTANCE, SUCH AS A SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETER OR PERSONAL ASSISTIVE LISTENING DEVICES, ARE REQUESTED TO CONTACT THE SENATE COMMITTEE COORDINATOR AT 512/463-0070, 72 HOURS PRIOR TO THE MEETING SO APPROPRIATE ARRANGEMENTS CAN BE MADE.