Bill Text: TX HB305 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to the time period for conducting pretrial hearings after a criminal defendant has been restored to competency.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Vetoed) 2025-06-22 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB305 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB305-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 305

AN ACT
relating to the time period for conducting pretrial hearings after
a criminal defendant has been restored to competency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Article 46B.084(d-1), Code of Criminal
Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
(d-1) This article does not require the criminal case to be
finally resolved within any specific period, except that, in a
jurisdiction to which Subsection (d)(1) applies, a pretrial hearing
on any evidentiary or procedural issue that must be resolved for the
criminal proceedings in the case to proceed to trial or another
resolution must be conducted not later than the 14th day after the
date of the court's determination under this article that the
defendant's competency has been restored.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 305 was passed by the House on May 13,
2025, by the following vote: Yeas 136, Nays 4, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 305 was passed by the Senate on May
23, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor