SENATE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:     Criminal Justice 

TIME & DATE:   8:30 AM, Tuesday, May 16, 2023 

PLACE:         E1.016 (Hearing Room) 
CHAIR:         Senator John Whitmire 

HB 420         Slawson               SP: Flores
Relating to the offense of providing an alcoholic beverage to a minor; increasing a criminal penalty.

HB 422         VanDeaver | et al.            SP: Perry
Relating to remotely conducting depositions, hearings, and other proceedings in juvenile cases.

HB 844         Patterson | et al.            SP: Paxton
Relating to crime victims' compensation for criminally injurious conduct in connection with trafficking of persons.

HB 1184        Rose               SP: Johnson
Relating to access to criminal history record information for use in certain research or statistical projects.

HB 1427        Campos | et al.               SP: Bettencourt
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of harassment.

HB 1661        Burns               SP: King
Relating to the age limit for a beginning position in a police department under municipal civil service.

HB 1710        Canales               SP: Hinojosa
Relating to notice provided to a court regarding a defendant confined in a state jail felony facility.

HB 1769        Meyer | et al.               SP: Alvarado
Relating to the statute of limitations for certain offenses committed against children.

HB 1914        Kacal | et al.               SP: Hinojosa
Relating to compensatory time accrued by an employee of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

HB 2154        Morales, Eddie               SP: Flores
Relating to the adoption of physical fitness programs and standards for law enforcement officers employed by the office of the attorney general.

HB 2620        Geren | et al.               SP: King
Relating to the confinement in a county jail of a person pending a transfer to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and to compensation to a county for certain costs of confinement.

HB 2660        Oliverson | et al.            SP: Hughes
Relating to the duties of a law enforcement agency regarding missing children and missing persons.

HB 2670        Howard | et al.               SP: Zaffirini
Relating to the composition of the Sexual Assault Survivors' Task Force and to compensation for task force members and certain other task force participants.

HB 2700        Guillen | et al.               SP: Huffman
Relating to prosecution of certain criminal offenses prohibiting sexually explicit visual material involving children.

HB 2877        King, Tracy O. | et al.         SP: Blanco
Relating to crime victims' compensation.

HB 2897        Walle               SP: Whitmire
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of theft of service.

HB 3025        Vasut | et al.               SP: Middleton
Relating to the prosecution of the criminal offenses of aggravated kidnapping, kidnapping, and interference with child custody.

HB 3161        Hull               SP: Huffman
Relating to the duties of a justice of the peace, medical examiner, or other investigator regarding the bodies of unidentified deceased persons.

HB 3186        Leach | et al.               SP: Zaffirini
Relating to youth diversion strategies and procedures for children accused of certain fine-only offenses in municipal and justice courts and related criminal justice matters; authorizing fees.

HB 3553        Thierry | et al.               SP: Whitmire
Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of trafficking of persons if committed at certain locations.

HB 3554        Thierry | et al.               SP: Whitmire
Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of trafficking of persons if committed at certain locations.

HB 3660        Vasut | et al.               SP: Zaffirini
Relating to a defense to prosecution for the offense of cruelty to nonlivestock animals under certain circumstances.

HB 4528        Wilson               SP: Whitmire
Relating to the requirement that a peace officer take possession of a person's driver's license following the person's failure to pass or refusal to consent to a test for intoxication.

HB 4879        Holland               SP: Flores
Relating to incident-based reporting of information and statistics concerning offenses committed in this state and the establishment of the Texas crime information system by the Department of Public Safety.

HB 4906        Hefner               SP: West
Relating to the installation and use of tracking equipment and access to certain communications by certain peace officers.

HB 5195        Thompson, Senfronia      SP: Johnson
Relating to the services provided to certain children detained in a juvenile detention facility.

Pending business

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