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HB413 • 2025

Relating to the release of certain defendants detained in jail pending trial.

Relating to the release of certain defendants detained in jail pending trial.

Crime
Vetoed

The latest official action shows the governor vetoed this bill. Check the bill history to see whether lawmakers later overrode that veto.

Sponsor
Jones, Jolanda | Curry | Cain | Moody | Money
Last action
2025-06-22
Official status
06/22/2025 E Vetoed by the Governor
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Relating to the release of certain defendants detained in jail pending trial.

Relating to the release of certain defendants detained in jail pending trial.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to the release of certain defendants detained in jail pending trial.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-06-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Vetoed by the Governor

  2. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Sent to the Governor

  3. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the House

  4. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the Senate

  5. 2025-05-26 Texas Legislature Online

    Co-sponsor authorized

  6. 2025-05-26 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate passage reported

  7. 2025-05-26 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported enrolled

  8. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Co-sponsor authorized

  9. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on intent calendar

  10. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  11. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote recorded in Journal

  12. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading

  13. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote recorded in Journal

  14. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Three day rule suspended

  15. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  16. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  17. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  18. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  19. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendments

  20. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Recommended for local & uncontested calendar

  21. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  22. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  23. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  24. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  25. 2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  26. 2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Criminal Justice

  27. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the House

  28. 2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  29. 2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  30. 2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#2290

  31. 2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  32. 2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  33. 2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  34. 2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to engrossment

  35. 2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#2224

  36. 2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  37. 2025-05-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on General State Calendar

  38. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  39. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  40. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  41. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  42. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in formal meeting

  43. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

  44. 2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  45. 2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  46. 2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  47. 2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  48. 2025-02-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  49. 2025-02-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence

  50. 2024-11-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to the release of certain defendants detained in jail pending trial.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) HB 413 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

H.B. No. 413

AN ACT

relating to the release of certain defendants detained in jail

pending trial.

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

SECTION 1. Chapter 17, Code of Criminal Procedure, is

amended by adding Article 17.1511 to read as follows:

Art.

17.1511.

RELEASE OF CERTAIN DEFENDANTS DETAINED LONGER

THAN POTENTIAL PUNISHMENT. (a) Notwithstanding any other law and

except as provided by Subsection (b), a defendant charged with an

offense punishable as a Class B misdemeanor or any higher category

of offense may not be detained in jail pending trial for a

cumulative period that, when considering the maximum credit toward

the defendant's sentence to which the defendant would be entitled

to earn as a result of the defendant's conduct while confined in the

county jail of the county in which the offense occurred, exceeds the

maximum term of confinement that may be imposed on conviction of the

offense of which the defendant is accused.

(b)

This article does not apply to a defendant who is being

evaluated for competency or subject to an order of commitment

issued under Chapter 46B.

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

to a person who is arrested on or after the effective date of this

Act. A person arrested before the effective date of this Act is

governed by the law in effect on the date the person was arrested,

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

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

______________________________

______________________________

President of the Senate

Speaker of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 413 was passed by the House on May 13,

2025, by the following vote: Yeas 115, Nays 23, 3 present, not

voting.

______________________________

Chief Clerk of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 413 was passed by the Senate on May

25, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1.

______________________________

Secretary of the Senate

APPROVED: _____________________

Date

_____________________

Governor