Bill Text: TX HB2017 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 2017

TX State Legislature page for HB2017

Bill Title: Relating to increasing the criminal penalty and changing the eligibility for community supervision, mandatory supervision, and parole for certain persons convicted of intoxication manslaughter.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 12)

Status: (Passed) 2025-06-20 - Effective on 9/1/25 [HB2017 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB2017-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 2017




	AN ACT
	relating to increasing the criminal penalty and changing the
	eligibility for community supervision, mandatory supervision, and
	parole for certain persons convicted of intoxication manslaughter.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as Grayson's Law.
	SECTION 2. Section 49.09(b-2), Penal Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(b-2) An offense under Section 49.08 is a felony of the
	first degree if it is shown on the trial of the offense that the
	person:
	(1) caused the death of a person described by
	Subsection (b-1); or
	(2) has previously been convicted of an offense
	relating to the operating of a motor vehicle while intoxicated,
	operating an aircraft while intoxicated, operating a watercraft
	while intoxicated, or operating or assembling an amusement ride
	while intoxicated, and at the time of the commission of the instant
	offense was in violation of Chapter 51.
	SECTION 3. Article 42A.059, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
	amended to read as follows:
	Art. 42A.059. PLACEMENT ON COMMUNITY SUPERVISION
	PROHIBITED FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES INVOLVING ILLEGAL ENTRY INTO THIS
	STATE. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a
	defendant is not eligible for community supervision, including
	deferred adjudication community supervision, under this chapter if
	the defendant is charged with or convicted of an offense under:
	(1) Chapter 51, Penal Code; or
	(2) Section 49.08, Penal Code, if the offense is
	punishable under Section 49.09(b-2)(2), Penal Code.
	SECTION 4. Section 508.145, Government Code, is amended by
	adding Subsection (e-1) to read as follows:
	(e-1) An inmate serving a sentence for an offense punishable
	under Section 49.09(b-2)(2), Penal Code, is not eligible for
	release on parole until the actual calendar time served, without
	consideration of good conduct time, equals 10 years.
	SECTION 5. Section 508.147, Government Code, is amended by
	amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as
	follows:
	(a) Except as provided by Subsection (a-1) and Section
	508.149, a parole panel shall order the release of an inmate who is
	not on parole to mandatory supervision when the actual calendar
	time the inmate has served plus any accrued good conduct time equals
	the term to which the inmate was sentenced.
	(a-1) An inmate serving a sentence for an offense punishable
	under Section 49.09(b-2)(2), Penal Code, may not be released to
	mandatory supervision unless:
	(1) the inmate's actual calendar time served, without
	consideration of good conduct time, equals at least 10 years; and
	(2) the inmate is otherwise eligible for release under
	Subsection (a).
	SECTION 6. The changes in law made by this Act apply 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 7. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 2017 was passed by the House on May 6,
	2025, by the following vote: Yeas 117, Nays 28, 1 present, not
	voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to
	H.B. No. 2017 on May 30, 2025, and requested the appointment of a
	conference committee to consider the differences between the two
	houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report
	on H.B. No. 2017 on June 1, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 96,
	Nays 38, 1 present, not voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House

	I certify that H.B. No. 2017 was passed by the Senate, with
	amendments, on May 26, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 26, Nays
	5; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference
	committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and
	that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.
	2017 on May 31, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 26, Nays 5.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date

	__________________
	Governor