SENATE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:     Criminal Justice 

TIME & DATE:   8:00 AM, Tuesday, April 22, 2025 

PLACE:         E1.016 (Hearing Room) 
CHAIR:         Senator Pete Flores 

SB 127         Hall                     
Relating to the offense of failure to report child abuse or neglect by certain professionals and the statute of limitations for that offense; harmonizing other statute of limitations provisions.

SB 456         Middleton               
Relating to the purchase or sale of human organs; increasing a criminal penalty.

SB 482         Alvarado | et al.       
Relating to increasing the criminal penalties for the offenses of assault and harassment committed against certain employees or agents of a utility and committed in a disaster area or evacuated area.

SB 659         Schwertner              
Relating to the punishment for the offense of smuggling of persons through the use of government resources.

SB 739         Kolkhorst               
Relating to the definition of authorized peace officer for purposes of certain laws governing the installation and use of tracking equipment and access to certain communications.

SB 816         Huffman                  
Relating to authorizing the disclosure of certain electronic customer data by a provider of an electronic communications service or a remote computing service in certain immediate life-threatening situations.

SB 1234        Hancock | et al.        
Relating to committing the criminal offense of endangering a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual by engaging in certain conduct involving a controlled substance listed in Penalty Group 1-B of the Texas Controlled Substances Act.

SB 1666        Zaffirini               
Relating to the payment of restitution by a person released on parole or to mandatory supervision.

SB 1886        Sparks                   
Relating to the execution of a search warrant for taking a blood specimen from certain persons in certain intoxication offenses.

SB 1980        Hall                     
Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of assault committed against certain public servants and to the prosecution of the criminal offense of interference with public duties of those public servants.

SB 2580        Hancock                  
Relating to the definition of a designated law enforcement office or agency for purposes of certain laws governing the installation and use of tracking equipment and access to certain communications.

SB 2611        West                     
Relating to the status of certain documents or instruments concerning real or personal property; creating the criminal offenses of real property theft and real property fraud and establishing a statute of limitations for those offenses; harmonizing other statute of limitations provisions; increasing a criminal penalty.

SB 2693        Perry                    
Relating to the role of advocacy and support groups in the juvenile justice system.

SB 2776        Hinojosa, Adam          
Relating to the disclosure of certain information by the Texas Juvenile Justice Department.

Pending Business

Public Testimony will be limited to 2 minutes per person. If submitting written testimony please submit 14 copies with you name and organization on each copy.

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