| TX | HB449 | Veto | Relating to the unlawful production or distribution of sexually explicit media using deep fake technology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-22
Vetoed by the Governor |
| TX | SB127 | Pass | Relating to the offense of failure to report child abuse or neglect by certain professionals and the statute of limitations for that offense; harmonizing other statute of limitations provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB908 | Pass | Relating to the reporting by law enforcement agencies of missing children to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB1443 | Pass | Relating to creating the criminal offense of promotion or possession of a child-like sex doll.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB1422 | Pass | Relating to the rights of victims of sexual assault and other sex offenses, the offense of continuous sexual abuse, and the prosecution, punishment, and collateral consequences of certain sex offenses; creating a criminal offense; increasing criminal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | SB535 | Pass | Relating to the admissibility of evidence regarding a victim's past sexual behavior in prosecutions of certain trafficking, sexual, or assaultive offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | SB835 | Pass | Relating to the enforceability of certain nondisclosure or confidentiality provisions with respect to an act of sexual abuse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB2306 | Pass | Relating to changing the eligibility for release on parole of certain inmates serving sentences for trafficking offenses involving child victims and disabled individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | SB1212 | Pass | Relating to the prosecution and punishment for the offense of trafficking of persons; increasing a criminal penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB2761 | Pass | Relating to the prosecution of the offenses of trafficking of persons, continuous trafficking of persons, and compelling prostitution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB3133 | Pass | Relating to user reports of explicit deep fake material on social media platforms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB3153 | Pass | Relating to hiring and employment requirements for persons in direct contact with children at certain facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | SB20 | Pass | Relating to the creation of the criminal offense of possession, promotion, or production of certain obscene visual material appearing to depict a child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | SB1621 | Pass | Relating to prosecution and punishment of certain criminal offenses prohibiting sexually explicit visual material involving depictions of children, computer-generated children, or other persons; creating criminal offenses; increasing criminal penalti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB47 | Pass | Relating to sexual assault and other sex offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | SB1120 | Pass | Relating to rights of a victim, guardian of a victim, or close relative of a deceased victim in certain criminal cases involving family violence, sexual or assaultive offenses, stalking, or a violation of a protective order or condition of bond and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | SB2798 | Pass | Relating to certain statutes of limitations for criminal offenses, including the statute of limitations for certain fraud offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB4623 | Pass | Relating to liability of public schools and professional school employees for sexual misconduct involving students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB451 | Pass | Relating to a screening for the risk of commercial sexual exploitation of certain children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-29
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB1778 | Pass | Relating to human trafficking, prostitution, and child pornography and to the prosecution of sexual or assaultive offenses or the prosecution of a failure to stop or report those offenses; amending and harmonizing certain statute of limitations provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-29
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | SJR87 | Engross
Sine Die | Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the denial of bail to persons accused of certain offenses punishable as a felony who have previously been convicted of or who were released on bail for certain offenses punishable as a felony at the time...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-28
1 hr. notice-for reconsideration |
| TX | HB748 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to the enforceability of certain nondisclosure or confidentiality provisions with respect to an act of sexual abuse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-27
Not again placed on intent calendar |
| TX | SB747 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to public school policies and programs regarding the production or distribution of certain intimate visual material by public school students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-26
Placed on General State Calendar |
| TX | SB2785 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to notification and disclosure of records and information concerning an investigation of a report of child abuse or neglect to county or district attorneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-26
Placed on General State Calendar |
| TX | HB166 | Pass | Relating to committing the criminal offense of endangering a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual by engaging in certain conduct involving a controlled substance listed in Penalty Group 1-B of the Texas Controlled Substances Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-24
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB2000 | Pass | Relating to the applicability of sex offender registration requirements to the offense of child grooming.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-24
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB1347 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to the prosecution of the offense of exploitation of a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
To Senate Criminal Justice Committee |
| TX | SB990 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to increasing the punishment for certain conduct constituting the offense of murder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
Committee report sent to Calendars |
| TX | HB3087 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to the authority of a county to restrict sex offenders from child safety zones in the unincorporated area of the county; creating a criminal offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
Committee report sent to Calendars |
| TX | SB412 | Pass | Relating to defenses to prosecution for certain offenses involving material or conduct that is obscene or otherwise harmful to children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-19
Effective on 9/1/25 |
| TX | HB3694 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to the unlawful production or distribution of certain sexually explicit media and to the removal of certain intimate visual depictions published on online platforms without the consent of the person depicted; increasing criminal penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-19
To Senate Criminal Justice Committee |
| TX | HB1375 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to civil liability for obscenity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-15
Placed on General State Calendar |
| TX | HB3231 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to the prosecution and punishment for the offense of trafficking of persons; increasing a criminal penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-15
Placed on General State Calendar |
| TX | HB1551 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to the notification of parents of students enrolled in public school regarding certain alleged criminal conduct by an employee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-14
Placed on General State Calendar |
| TX | HB7 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to parental rights in public education, to the creation of the office of inspector general at the Texas Education Agency, and to the reporting of certain misconduct and child abuse and neglect; creating a criminal offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-09
Committee report sent to Calendars |
| TX | SB1588 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to the failure to report child abuse or neglect; increasing a criminal penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-08
To House Human Services Committee |
| TX | SB1224 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to the reporting of certain public or private school employee misconduct to local law enforcement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
To House Public Education Committee |
| TX | HB267 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to defenses to prosecution for certain offenses involving material or conduct that is obscene or otherwise harmful to children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-01
Laid on the table subject to call |
| TX | HB544 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to the imposition of consecutive sentences for more than one criminal offense of injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual arising out of the same criminal episode.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-01
To House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee |
| TX | HB1552 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to changing the name of the offense of child pornography to child sexual abuse material and to updating references to conform to that terminology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-01
To Senate Criminal Justice Committee |
| TX | HB421 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to the creation of certain explicit deep fake material; providing a private cause of action.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-30
To Senate Criminal Justice Committee |
| TX | HB1983 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to creating the criminal offense of child endangerment involving smuggling across an international border.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-30
Considered in Calendars |
| TX | SB1832 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to providing for an election by the parent of a student who was victimized by a public school employee to transfer the student to another public school campus or receive funding for the student to attend private school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-28
To House Public Education Committee |
| TX | HB1913 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to prohibiting a registered sex offender in certain circumstances from going within a certain distance of the residence of a victim of any offense committed by the offender for which the offender is subject to registration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
Committee report sent to Calendars |
| TX | HB1255 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for certain offenses committed by a professional who is required to report child abuse or neglect and against a child under the care of that professional.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-24
To House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee |
| TX | HB1509 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to the offense of failure to stop or report aggravated sexual assault of a child; increasing a criminal penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-24
To House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee |
| TX | HB2113 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to the creation of the criminal offense of hindering the investigation or prosecution of certain sexual offenses committed against a child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-24
To House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee |
| TX | HB3189 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for certain conduct constituting the offense of trafficking of persons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-24
To House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee |
| TX | SB1234 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to committing the criminal offense of endangering a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual by engaging in certain conduct involving a controlled substance listed in Penalty Group 1-B of the Texas Controlled Substances Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-23
Committee report printed and distributed |
| TX | HB4342 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to the admissibility of certain hearsay statements in the prosecution of certain sexual or assaultive offenses committed against a child or person with a disability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
To House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee |
