By: Smithee, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Huffman) H.B. No. 75
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 19, 2025;
  May 19, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
  Justice; May 23, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote:  
  Yeas 6, Nays 1; May 23, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the duty of a magistrate to make written findings in
  certain criminal proceedings.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Article 15.17, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
  amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
         (h)  Not later than 24 hours after the time a magistrate
  determines that no probable cause exists to believe that a person
  committed the offense for which the person was arrested, the
  magistrate shall enter in the record written findings to support
  that finding.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.  
  An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
  governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,
  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.  For
  purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the
  effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred
  before that date.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
 
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