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SB826 • 2025

Relating to the operation of a motor vehicle in a school crossing zone while intoxicated; increasing a criminal penalty.

Relating to the operation of a motor vehicle in a school crossing zone while intoxicated; increasing a criminal penalty.

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Enacted

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

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

Plain English Breakdown

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Relating to the operation of a motor vehicle in a school crossing zone while intoxicated; increasing a criminal penalty.

Relating to the operation of a motor vehicle in a school crossing zone while intoxicated; increasing a criminal penalty.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to the operation of a motor vehicle in a school crossing zone while intoxicated; increasing a criminal penalty.

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. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the House

  4. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Sent to the Governor

  5. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the Senate

  6. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  7. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  8. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#3906

  9. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  10. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    House passage reported

  11. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported enrolled

  12. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  13. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to 3rd reading

  14. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#3808

  15. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  16. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on General State Calendar

  17. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  18. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  19. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  20. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  21. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in formal meeting

  22. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

  23. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  24. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Recalled from subcommittee

  25. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  26. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  27. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  28. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred directly to subcommittee by chair

  29. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  30. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence

  31. 2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the Senate

  32. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Co-author authorized

  33. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  34. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote recorded in Journal

  35. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment

  36. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote recorded in Journal

  37. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Three day rule suspended

  38. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  39. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  40. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  41. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  42. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  43. 2025-04-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on intent calendar

  44. 2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendments

  45. 2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Recommended for local & uncontested calendar

  46. 2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  47. 2025-04-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  48. 2025-04-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  49. 2025-04-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  50. 2025-02-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  51. 2025-02-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Criminal Justice

  52. 2025-01-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Received by the Secretary of the Senate

  53. 2025-01-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to the operation of a motor vehicle in a school crossing zone while intoxicated; increasing a criminal penalty.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) SB 826 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

S.B. No. 826

AN ACT

relating to the operation of a motor vehicle in a school crossing

zone while intoxicated; increasing a criminal penalty.

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

SECTION 1. Section 49.04, Penal Code, is amended by

amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (e) to read as

follows:

(b) Except as provided by Subsections (c)
,
[
and
] (d)
, and

(e)
and Section 49.09, an offense under this section is a Class B

misdemeanor, with a minimum term of confinement of 72 hours.

(e)

If it is shown on the trial of an offense under this

section that at the time of the offense the person was operating the

motor vehicle in a school crossing zone during the time the reduced

speed limit applies to the zone, the offense is a state jail felony.

In this subsection, "school crossing zone" has the meaning assigned

by Section 541.302, Transportation Code.

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. 826 passed the Senate on

April 23, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1.

______________________________

Secretary of the Senate

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 826 passed the House on

May 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 129, Nays 5, two

present not voting.

______________________________

Chief Clerk of the House

Approved:

______________________________

Date

______________________________

Governor