Bill Text: TX HB413 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the release of certain defendants detained in jail pending trial.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-13)
Status: (Vetoed) 2025-06-22 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB413 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB413-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 413 | ||
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| relating to the release of certain defendants detained in jail | ||
| pending trial. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 17, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
| amended by adding Article 17.1511 to read as follows: | ||
| Art. 17.1511. RELEASE OF CERTAIN DEFENDANTS DETAINED LONGER | ||
| THAN POTENTIAL PUNISHMENT. (a) Notwithstanding any other law and | ||
| except as provided by Subsection (b), a defendant charged with an | ||
| offense punishable as a Class B misdemeanor or any higher category | ||
| of offense may not be detained in jail pending trial for a | ||
| cumulative period that, when considering the maximum credit toward | ||
| the defendant's sentence to which the defendant would be entitled | ||
| to earn as a result of the defendant's conduct while confined in the | ||
| county jail of the county in which the offense occurred, exceeds the | ||
| maximum term of confinement that may be imposed on conviction of the | ||
| offense of which the defendant is accused. | ||
| (b) This article does not apply to a defendant who is being | ||
| evaluated for competency or subject to an order of commitment | ||
| issued under Chapter 46B. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to a person who is arrested on or after the effective date of this | ||
| Act. A person arrested before the effective date of this Act is | ||
| governed by the law in effect on the date the person was arrested, | ||
| and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 413 was passed by the House on May 13, | ||
| 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 115, Nays 23, 3 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 413 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 25, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
