** 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, May 2, 2023 

PLACE:        E2.016 
CHAIR:        Rep. Joe Moody 

* Public testimony will be limited to 3 minutes *

SB 23          Huffman | et al.                          
Relating to increasing the minimum term of imprisonment and changing the eligibility for community supervision and parole for certain felony offenses in which a firearm is used or exhibited and to certain consequences on conviction of certain offenses.

SB 338         Hinojosa | et al.                         
Relating to the use of hypnotically induced statements in a criminal trial.

SB 402         Whitmire | et al.                         
Relating to the preference given by trial courts to hearings and trials for murder and capital murder offenses.

SB 947         King                                      
Relating to creating a criminal offense for damaging certain critical infrastructure facilities and providing for the prosecution of that conduct as manslaughter in certain circumstances; increasing a criminal penalty.

SB 1518        King                           Posting Rule Suspended
Relating to the establishment of a terrorist offender registry and to the supervision of those terrorist offenders; creating criminal offenses related to terrorism.

SB 1653        Huffman | et al.                          
Relating to the punishment for the offense of promotion of prostitution.

SB 1717        Zaffirini                                 
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of stalking.

HJR 99         Stucky | et al.                Posting Rule Suspended
Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the denial of bail to certain persons arrested for an offense resulting in the death of or serious bodily injury to a person younger than 18 years of age.

HB 3197        Frazier                        Posting Rule Suspended
Relating to definition change for certain customer data, communications, and other information held in electronic storage in this state and other states by providers of electronic communications services and remote computing services.

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

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Bills added after last posting:

HB 3197

HJR 99

SB 1518

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