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SB2196 • 2025

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

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

Enacted

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

Sponsor
Johnson
Last action
2025-05-20
Official status
05/20/2025 E Effective on 9/1/25
Effective date
2025-05-20

Plain English Breakdown

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

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

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to the period during which an order for emergency protection remains in effect.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed by the Governor

  2. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Effective on 9/1/25

  3. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the Senate

  4. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the House

  5. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Sent to the Governor

  6. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  7. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  8. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#1574

  9. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  10. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    House passage reported

  11. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported enrolled

  12. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid out in lieu of companion. HB 1194

  13. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  14. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to 3rd reading

  15. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#1498

  16. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  17. 2025-05-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  18. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in formal meeting

  19. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

  20. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  21. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  22. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  23. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence

  24. 2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the Senate

  25. 2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on local & uncontested calendar

  26. 2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid before the Senate

  27. 2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment

  28. 2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote recorded in Journal

  29. 2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Three day rule suspended

  30. 2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  31. 2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  32. 2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  33. 2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  34. 2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  35. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on intent calendar

  36. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendments

  37. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Recommended for local & uncontested calendar

  38. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  39. 2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  40. 2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  41. 2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken in committee

  42. 2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  43. 2025-03-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  44. 2025-03-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Criminal Justice

  45. 2025-03-11 Texas Legislature Online

    Received by the Secretary of the Senate

  46. 2025-03-11 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

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

Current Bill Text

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89(R) SB 2196 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

S.B. No. 2196

AN ACT

relating to the period during which an order for emergency

protection remains in effect.

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

SECTION 1. Article 17.292(j), Code of Criminal Procedure,

is amended to read as follows:

(j) An order for emergency protection issued under this

article is effective on issuance, and the defendant shall be served

a copy of the order by the magistrate or the magistrate's designee

in person or electronically. The magistrate shall make a separate

record of the service in written or electronic format. An order for

emergency protection issued under Subsection (a) or (b)(1) of this

article remains in effect up to the
91st
[
61st
] day but not less

than
61
[
31
] days after the date of issuance. An order for

emergency protection issued under Subsection (b)(2) of this article

remains in effect up to the
121st
[
91st
] day but not less than
91

[
61
] days after the date of issuance. After notice to each affected

party and a hearing, the issuing court may modify all or part of an

order issued under this article if the court finds that:

(1) the order as originally issued is unworkable;

(2) the modification will not place the victim of the

offense at greater risk than did the original order; and

(3) the modification will not in any way endanger a

person protected under the order.

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

to an order for emergency protection issued on or after the

effective date of this Act. An order issued before that date is

governed by the law in effect on the date the order was issued, 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 hereby certify that S.B. No. 2196 passed the Senate on

April 24, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

______________________________

Secretary of the Senate

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2196 passed the House on

May 7, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 125, Nays 20, two

present not voting.

______________________________

Chief Clerk of the House

Approved:

______________________________

Date

______________________________

Governor