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, March 25, 2025 

PLACE:        E2.014 
CHAIR:        Rep. John Smithee 

 

Public testimony may be limited to three (3) minutes per witness.

 

HB 207         Guillen | et al.                          
Relating to the prosecution of certain criminal offenses prohibiting sexually explicit visual material involving an anatomically correct doll, mannequin, or robot that has the features of a child.

HB 235         Guillen | et al.                          
Relating to civil and criminal liability for the unlawful disclosure or promotion of intimate visual material.

HB 324         Johnson                                   
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of sexual assault.

HB 449         González, Mary                            
Relating to the unlawful production or distribution of sexually explicit images using deep fake technology.

HB 463         Jones, Jolanda                            
Relating to the automatic expunction of arrest records and files after certain controlled substance offense charges are dismissed.

HB 502         Flores                                    
Relating to the confidentiality of identifying information of victims of certain offenses.

HB 1121        Gámez                                     
Relating to civil and criminal liability for the unlawful disclosure or promotion of intimate visual material.

HB 1445        Hernandez                                 
Relating to the compensation of counsel appointed to provide representation and services to indigent individuals in criminal and juvenile proceedings.

HB 1465        Hickland                                  
Relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of invasive visual recording and the applicability of sex offender registration requirements to that offense.

HB 1778        Thompson                                  
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 provisions; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty.

HB 1977        Cook                                      
Relating to the admissibility of evidence of certain extraneous offenses or acts in the prosecution of sexual assault or aggravated sexual assault or an attempt or conspiracy to commit sexual assault or aggravated sexual assault.

HB 2000        Ashby | et al.                            
Relating to the applicability of sex offender registration requirements to the offense of child grooming.

HB 2066        Virdell | et al.                          
Relating to the expunction of arrest records and files for certain defendants placed on deferred adjudication community supervision for the unlawful carrying of a handgun.

HB 2596        Metcalf                                   
Relating to the issuance of certain protective orders for certain burglary offenses.

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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