HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:    Criminal Jurisprudence 

TIME & DATE:  10:30 AM, Tuesday, March 11, 2025 

PLACE:       E2.014 
CHAIR:       Rep. John Smithee 

The Committee will meet to hear the following bills:

HB 268         Landgraf                                              
Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for making certain false reports and to restitution for emergency response costs associated with those false reports.

HB 305         Hayes                                                 
Relating to the time period for conducting a pretrial hearing after a criminal defendant has been restored to competency.

HB 307         Vasut                                                 
Relating to credit toward payment of fines and costs for certain defendants.

HB 380         Guillen                                               
Relating to the applicability of sex offender registration requirements to the offense of improper relationship between educator and student.

HB 548         Tepper                                                
Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of burglary of a vehicle and to grants of community supervision to persons who commit that offense.

HB 727         Cortez                                                
Relating to the punishment for the offense of burglary of a vehicle.

Public testimony will be limited to three minutes.

Texas residents who wish to electronically submit comments related to

agenda items on this notice without testifying in person can do so until

the hearing is adjourned by visiting:

https://comments.house.texas.gov/home?c=c220

For those persons who will be testifying, information for in-person witness registration, can be found here: https://mytxlegis.capitol.texas.gov/HWRSPublic/About.aspx

A live video broadcast of this hearing will be available here: https://house.texas.gov/video-audio/

Instructions related to public access to the meeting location are available here: https://house.texas.gov/committees/public-access-house-committee-meetings/

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, are requested to contact Stacey Nicchio at (512) 463-0850, 72 hours prior to the meeting so that appropriate arrangements can be made.