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HB3464 • 2025

Relating to increasing the criminal penalties for the offenses of providing or possessing with the intent to provide an alcoholic beverage, a controlled substance, or a dangerous drug to a person in the custody of a correctional facility, taking an alcoholic beverage, a controlled substance, or a dangerous drug into a correctional facility, and taking a controlled substance or dangerous drug on property owned, used, or controlled by a correctional facility.

Relating to increasing the criminal penalties for the offenses of providing or possessing with the intent to provide an alcoholic beverage, a controlled substance, or a dangerous drug to a person in the custody of a correctional facility, taking an alcoholic beverage, a controlled substance, or a dangerous drug into a correctional facility, and taking a controlled substance or dangerous drug on property owned, used, or controlled by a correctional facility.

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Meza | Lalani
Last action
2025-06-20
Official status
06/20/2025 E Effective on 9/1/25
Effective date
2025-06-20

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Relating to increasing the criminal penalties for the offenses of providing or possessing with the intent to provide an alcoholic beverage, a controlled substance, or a dangerous drug to a person in the custody of a correctional facility, taking an alcoholic beverage, a controlled substance, or a dangerous drug into a correctional facility, and taking a controlled substance or dangerous drug on property owned, used, or controlled by a correctional facility.

Relating to increasing the criminal penalties for the offenses of providing or possessing with the intent to provide an alcoholic beverage, a controlled substance, or a dangerous drug to a person in the custody of a correctional facility, taking an alcoholic beverage, a controlled substance, or a dangerous drug into a correctional facility, and taking a controlled substance or dangerous drug on property owned, used, or controlled by a correctional facility.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to increasing the criminal penalties for the offenses of providing or possessing with the intent to provide an alcoholic beverage, a controlled substance, or a dangerous drug to a person in the custody of a correctional facility, taking an alcoholic beverage, a controlled substance, or a dangerous drug into a correctional facility, and taking a controlled substance or dangerous drug on property owned, used, or controlled by a correctional facility.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed by the Governor

  2. 2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Effective on 9/1/25

  3. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the Senate

  4. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Sent to the Governor

  5. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the House

  6. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported enrolled

  7. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    House concurs in Senate amendment(s)

  8. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#3960

  9. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  10. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Text of Senate Amendment(s)

  11. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported

  12. 2025-05-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate passage as amended reported

  13. 2025-05-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate Amendments distributed

  14. 2025-05-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate Amendments Analysis distributed

  15. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on intent calendar

  16. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  17. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading

  18. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote recorded in Journal

  19. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Three day rule suspended

  20. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  21. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  22. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  23. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  24. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Co-sponsor authorized

  25. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  26. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  27. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  28. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  29. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken in committee

  30. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  31. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Co-sponsor authorized

  32. 2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Co-sponsor authorized

  33. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  34. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Criminal Justice

  35. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  36. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  37. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#1425

  38. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  39. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  40. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the House

  41. 2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  42. 2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to engrossment

  43. 2025-05-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on General State Calendar

  44. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  45. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  46. 2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  47. 2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  48. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  49. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

  50. 2025-04-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  51. 2025-04-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  52. 2025-04-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  53. 2025-04-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  54. 2025-03-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  55. 2025-03-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Corrections

  56. 2025-02-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to increasing the criminal penalties for the offenses of providing or possessing with the intent to provide an alcoholic beverage, a controlled substance, or a dangerous drug to a person in the custody of a correctional facility, taking an alcoholic beverage, a controlled substance, or a dangerous drug into a correctional facility, and taking a controlled substance or dangerous drug on property owned, used, or controlled by a correctional facility.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) HB 3464 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

H.B. No. 3464

AN ACT

relating to increasing the criminal penalties for the offenses of

providing or possessing with the intent to provide an alcoholic

beverage, a controlled substance, or a dangerous drug to a person in

the custody of a correctional facility, taking an alcoholic

beverage, a controlled substance, or a dangerous drug into a

correctional facility, and taking a controlled substance or

dangerous drug on property owned, used, or controlled by a

correctional facility.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 38.11, Penal Code, is amended by

amending Subsection (g) and adding Subsections (g-1) and (g-2) to

read as follows:

(g)
Except as otherwise provided by Subsections (g-1) and

(g-2), an
[
An
] offense under this section is a felony of the third

degree.

(g-1)

Except as otherwise provided by Subsection (g-2), an

offense under Subsection (a)(1), (b), or (c) committed with respect

to a correctional facility is a felony of the second degree if the

actor is employed by the correctional facility.

(g-2)

An offense under Subsection (a)(1), (b), or (c)

committed with respect to a correctional facility is a felony of the

first degree punishable by imprisonment in the Texas Department of

Criminal Justice for life or for a term of not more than 99 years or

less than 15 years, and a fine not to exceed $250,000 if:

(1)

the actor is employed by the correctional

facility; and

(2)

the ingestion, inhalation, injection, or other

administration of the controlled substance or dangerous drug that

is the subject of the offense causes the death of a person in the

custody of the correctional facility.

SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only

to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.

An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is

governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,

and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For

purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the

effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred

before that date.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

______________________________

______________________________

President of the Senate

Speaker of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 3464 was passed by the House on May 6,

2025, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, 1 present, not

voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.

No. 3464 on May 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 128, Nays 0,

2 present, not voting.

______________________________

Chief Clerk of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 3464 was passed by the Senate, with

amendments, on May 23, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays

0.

______________________________

Secretary of the Senate

APPROVED: __________________

Date

__________________

Governor