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SB2112 • 2025

Relating to the punishment for certain criminal offenses related to cultivated oyster mariculture; increasing a criminal penalty.

Relating to the punishment for certain criminal offenses related to cultivated oyster mariculture; increasing a criminal penalty.

Enacted

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

Sponsor
Kolkhorst
Last action
2025-05-30
Official status
05/30/2025 E Effective on 9/1/25
Effective date
2025-05-30

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 the punishment for certain criminal offenses related to cultivated oyster mariculture; increasing a criminal penalty.

Relating to the punishment for certain criminal offenses related to cultivated oyster mariculture; increasing a criminal penalty.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to the punishment for certain criminal offenses related to cultivated oyster mariculture; increasing a criminal penalty.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed by the Governor

  2. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Effective on 9/1/25

  3. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the Senate

  4. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the House

  5. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Sent to the Governor

  6. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Rules suspended

  7. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Additional sponsor(s) authorized

  8. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  9. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  10. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#3020

  11. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    House passage reported

  12. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported enrolled

  13. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  14. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to 3rd reading

  15. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#2950

  16. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  17. 2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on General State Calendar

  18. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  19. 2025-05-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  20. 2025-05-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  21. 2025-05-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  22. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in formal meeting

  23. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

  24. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  25. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  26. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  27. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  28. 2025-04-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  29. 2025-04-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Culture, Recreation & Tourism

  30. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the Senate

  31. 2025-04-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  32. 2025-04-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote recorded in Journal

  33. 2025-04-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment

  34. 2025-04-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote recorded in Journal

  35. 2025-04-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Three day rule suspended

  36. 2025-04-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  37. 2025-04-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  38. 2025-04-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  39. 2025-04-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  40. 2025-04-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  41. 2025-04-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on intent calendar

  42. 2025-03-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  43. 2025-03-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  44. 2025-03-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken in committee

  45. 2025-03-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  46. 2025-03-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendments

  47. 2025-03-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Recommended for local & uncontested calendar

  48. 2025-03-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  49. 2025-03-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  50. 2025-03-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs

  51. 2025-03-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Received by the Secretary of the Senate

  52. 2025-03-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to the punishment for certain criminal offenses related to cultivated oyster mariculture; increasing a criminal penalty.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) SB 2112 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

S.B. No. 2112

AN ACT

relating to the punishment for certain criminal offenses related to

cultivated oyster mariculture; increasing a criminal penalty.

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

SECTION 1. Section 75.0107, Parks and Wildlife Code, is

amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (b-1) and

(b-2) to read as follows:

(b) A person
commits an offense if the person
[
who
]

violates
:

(1)
Section 75.0104(a) or 75.0106
;
or

(2)
a rule adopted under this chapter
.

(b-1) An
[
commits an
] offense
under Subsection (b)(1)

[
that
] is a Class B Parks and Wildlife Code misdemeanor
, except that

the offense is a Class A Parks and Wildlife Code misdemeanor if it

is shown on the trial of the offense that the defendant has been

previously convicted of an offense under Subsection (b)(1) during

the five-year period preceding the date of the trial of the current

offense.

(b-2)

An offense under Subsection (b)(2) is a Class C Parks

and Wildlife Code misdemeanor, except that the offense is a Class B

Parks and Wildlife Code misdemeanor if it is shown on the trial of

the offense that the defendant has been previously convicted of an

offense under Subsection (b)(2) two or more times during the

five-year period preceding the date of the trial of the current

offense
.

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 hereby certify that S.B. No. 2112 passed the Senate on

April 9, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 2.

______________________________

Secretary of the Senate

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2112 passed the House on

May 20, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 110, Nays 36, two

present not voting.

______________________________

Chief Clerk of the House

Approved:

______________________________

Date

______________________________

Governor