Bill Text: TX SB40 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds to pay bail bonds; authorizing injunctive relief.
Sponsorship: Broadly Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2025-06-16 - Effective on 9/1/25 [SB40 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB40-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 40 | ||
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| relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds to | ||
| pay bail bonds; authorizing injunctive relief. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 140, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 140.014 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 140.014. RESTRICTION ON USE OF PUBLIC FUNDS BY | ||
| POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS TO PAY BAIL BONDS. (a) A political | ||
| subdivision may not spend public funds to pay a nonprofit | ||
| organization that accepts and uses donations from the public to | ||
| deposit money with a court in the amount of a defendant's bail bond. | ||
| (b) If a political subdivision engages in an activity | ||
| prohibited by Subsection (a), a taxpayer or resident of the | ||
| political subdivision is entitled to appropriate injunctive relief | ||
| to prevent further activity prohibited by that subsection and | ||
| further payment of public funds related to that activity. | ||
| (c) A party that prevails in an action under Subsection (b) | ||
| is entitled to recover the party's reasonable attorney's fees and | ||
| costs. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 40 passed the Senate on | ||
| February 19, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 27, Nays 3; and | ||
| that the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 29, 2025, by | ||
| the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 3. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 40 passed the House, with | ||
| amendment, on May 20, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 113, | ||
| Nays 30, three present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
