** REVISION **
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:    Criminal Jurisprudence 

TIME & DATE:  10:30 AM or upon final adjourn./recess or bill referral if permission granted
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 

PLACE:       E2.016 
CHAIR:       Rep. Joe Moody 

*Public Testimony will be limited to 3 minutes*

HB 844         Patterson | et al.                 Posting Rule Suspended
Relating to the definition of trafficking for purposes of the offense of trafficking of persons.

HB 909         Moody                                                 
Relating to the authority of a court to grant a commutation of punishment to certain individuals serving a term of imprisonment.

HB 948         Dutton                                                
Relating to the release on bail of certain persons charged with a violation of a condition of the person's release from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

HB 1506        Meyer                                                 
Relating to the statute of limitations for the offense of abandoning or endangering a child.

HB 1731        Jones, Jolanda                                         
Relating to the release on personal bond of certain defendants charged with nonviolent misdemeanors.

HB 1739        Leach                                                 
Relating to the rights of victims, guardians of victims, and close relatives of deceased victims in the criminal justice system.

HB 1993        Harris, Cody                                          
Relating to the authority of a peace officer commissioned by the comptroller to apply for an order authorizing the installation and use of a mobile tracking device.

HB 2019        Neave Criado                                          
Relating to the statute of limitations for certain burglary offenses.

HB 2326        Moody | et al.                                         
Relating to taking a blood specimen from the body of a deceased person during an inquest.

HB 2338        Lopez, Janie                                          
Relating to the amount of the reimbursement fee paid by a defendant for a peace officer's services in executing or processing an arrest warrant, capias, or capias pro fine.

HB 2700        Guillen                                               
Relating to prosecution of certain criminal offenses prohibiting sexually explicit visual material involving children.

HB 2696        Howard                                                
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of sexual assault.

HB 3660        Vasut                                                 
Relating to a defense to prosecution for the offense of cruelty to nonlivestock animals under certain circumstances.

HB 3956        Smith                                                 
Relating to the creation of DNA records for a person arrested for a felony offense and the expunction of DNA records in certain circumstances.

Texas residents who wish to electronically submit comments related to agenda items on this notice without testifying in person can do so until the hearing is adjourned by visiting: https://comments.house.texas.gov/home?c=c220

For those persons who will be testifying, information for in-person witness registration, can be found here: https://mytxlegis.capitol.texas.gov/HWRSPublic/About.aspx

A live video broadcast of this hearing will be available here: https://house.texas.gov/video-audio/

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Bills added after last posting:

HB 844

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of this notice.

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