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 8, 2025 

PLACE:        E2.014 
CHAIR:        Rep. John Smithee 

Witness testimony may be limited to two (2) minutes.

The Committee will meet to hear the following bills:

HB 1194        Manuel                                    
Relating to the period during which an order for emergency protection remains in effect.

HB 1221        Lozano                                    
Relating to increasing the reimbursement fee for certain expenses related to pretrial intervention programs.

HB 1738        Jones, Venton | et al.                    
Relating to the repeal of the offense of homosexual conduct.

HB 1913        Schatzline                                
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.

HB 2177        Harless                                   
Relating to authorizing the disclosure of certain electronic customer data by a provider of an electronic communications service or a remote computing service in certain immediate life-threatening situations.

HB 2178        Harless                                   
Relating to the emergency installation and use of a mobile tracking device on a vehicle by an authorized peace officer.

HB 2180        Cunningham                                
Relating to a waiver of the preservation of evidence and the return of a seized weapon in a criminal case.

HB 2229        Hernandez                                 
Relating to the expunction of arrest records and files by a statutory county court.

HB 2282        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 2448        Moody                                     
Relating to the waiver of a defendant's arraignment.

HB 2492        Bowers | et al.                           
Relating to the period for which a person arrested for certain crimes involving family violence may be held after bond is posted.

HB 2777        Rose                                      
Relating to the applicability of the death penalty to a capital offense committed by a person with severe mental illness.

HB 2984        Curry                                     
Relating to a rebuttable presumption that a person is intoxicated based on an alcohol concentration level analysis.

HB 3357        Oliverson                                 
Relating to cremation authorization procedures in counties with medical examiners.

HB 3553        Spiller | et al.                          
Relating to the use of deadly force in defense of property.

HB 3602        Louderback | et al.                       
Relating to the execution of a search warrant for taking a blood specimen from certain persons in certain intoxication 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

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/

Instructions related to public access to the meeting location are available here: https://house.texas.gov/committees/public-access-house-committee-meetings/

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