HB917 • 2025

Relating to a district or county attorney participating as counsel in certain proceedings.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Spiller
Last action: 2025-04-29
Official status: 04/29/2025 S Referred to Jurisprudence
Effective date: Not listed

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Relating to a district or county attorney participating as counsel in certain proceedings.

What This Bill Does

Relating to a district or county attorney participating as counsel in certain proceedings.

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Bill History

2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online
Read first time
2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online
Referred to Jurisprudence
2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online
Received from the House
2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online
Read 3rd time
2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online
Passed
2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote. RV#567
2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online
Reported engrossed
2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online
Placed on General State Calendar
2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online
Read 2nd time
2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online
Passed to engrossment
2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote. RV#517
2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
2025-04-22 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in Calendars
2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online
Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report distributed
2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report sent to Calendars
2025-03-19 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-03-19 Texas Legislature Online
Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)
2025-03-12 Texas Legislature Online
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
2025-03-12 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-03-12 Texas Legislature Online
Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
2025-03-12 Texas Legislature Online
Left pending in committee
2025-03-06 Texas Legislature Online
Read first time
2025-03-06 Texas Legislature Online
Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence
2024-11-12 Texas Legislature Online
Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to a district or county attorney participating as counsel in certain proceedings.

Current Bill Text

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89(R) HB 917 - Engrossed version - Bill Text

89R3285 EAS-F

By: Spiller

H.B. No. 917

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to a district or county attorney participating as counsel

in certain proceedings.

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

SECTION 1. Article 2A.105(b), Code of Criminal Procedure,

is amended to read as follows:

(b) A district or county attorney may not:

(1) be of counsel adversely to the state in any case in

any court
except as an attorney ad litem appointed under Chapter

262, Family Code
; or

(2) after the attorney ceases to be a district or

county attorney, be of counsel adversely to the state in any case in

which the attorney has been of counsel for the state.

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

to the prosecution of an offense committed on or after the effective

date of this Act. The prosecution of 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.