By: Huffman S.J.R. No. 87
         (In the Senate - Filed May 13, 2025; May 13, 2025, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
  May 14, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
  Nays 0; May 14, 2025, sent to printer.)
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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
 
 
  proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the denial of bail
  to persons accused of certain offenses punishable as a felony who
  have previously been convicted of certain offenses punishable as a
  felony or who were released on bail for certain offenses punishable
  as a felony at the time of the instant offense.
         BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Article I, Texas Constitution, is amended by
  adding Section 11f to read as follows:
         Sec. 11f.  (a)  This section applies only to a person accused
  of committing one or more of the following offenses:
               (1)  murder;
               (2)  capital murder;
               (3)  aggravated assault if the person:
                     (A)  caused serious bodily injury, as that term is
  defined by general law, to another; or
                     (B)  used a firearm, club, knife, or explosive
  weapon, as those terms are defined by general law, during the
  commission of the assault;
               (4)  aggravated kidnapping;
               (5)  aggravated robbery;
               (6)  aggravated sexual assault;
               (7)  indecency with a child;
               (8)  trafficking of persons; or
               (9)  continuous trafficking of persons.
         (b)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this
  constitution, a person to whom this section applies shall be denied
  bail pending trial if a judge or magistrate determines after a
  hearing that:
               (1)  probable cause exists to believe that the person
  engaged in the conduct constituting the instant offense; and
               (2)  the person:
                     (A)  was previously convicted of an offense
  described by Subsection (a) of this section; or
                     (B)  at the time of the instant offense, was
  released on bail for an offense described by Subsection (a) of this
  section.
         SECTION 2.  This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
  submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 4, 2025.
  The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
  proposition: "The constitutional amendment requiring the denial of
  bail to persons accused of certain offenses punishable as a felony
  who have previously been convicted of certain offenses punishable
  as a felony or who were released on bail for certain offenses
  punishable as a felony at the time of the instant offense."
 
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