Bill Text: TX SB614 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of the Texas Forensic Science Commission to review and refer certain cases to the office of capital and forensic writs.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Vetoed) 2025-06-22 - Vetoed by the Governor [SB614 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB614-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 614 | ||
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| relating to the authority of the Texas Forensic Science Commission | ||
| to review and refer certain cases to the office of capital and | ||
| forensic writs. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 4(h), Article 38.01, Code of Criminal | ||
| Procedure, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (h) The commission may review and refer to the office of | ||
| capital and forensic writs in accordance with Section 78.054(b), | ||
| Government Code, cases that are: | ||
| (1) the subject of an investigation under Subsection | ||
| (a)(3) or (a-1); or | ||
| (2) dismissed by the commission with an express | ||
| referral to a previously published report that: | ||
| (A) covers the same subject matter; and | ||
| (B) is issued under Subsection (b), (b-1), or | ||
| (b-2) [ |
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| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 614 passed the Senate on | ||
| May 7, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 614 passed the House on | ||
| May 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 128, Nays 12, two | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
