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SJR1 • 2025

Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the denial of bail under certain circumstances for illegal aliens charged with certain offenses punishable as a felony.

Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the denial of bail under certain circumstances for illegal aliens charged with certain offenses punishable as a felony.

Crime
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Huffman
Last action
2025-05-28
Official status
05/28/2025 H Failed of adoption
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the denial of bail under certain circumstances for illegal aliens charged with certain offenses punishable as a felony.

Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the denial of bail under certain circumstances for illegal aliens charged with certain offenses punishable as a felony.

What This Bill Does

  • Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the denial of bail under certain circumstances for illegal aliens charged with certain offenses punishable as a felony.

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. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid out as postponed business

  2. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Amendment(s) offered. 1-Smithee

  3. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Point of order sustained (amendment). Rule 11, Section 6(e)

  4. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Postponed. 5/28/25 6:00 PM

  5. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid out as postponed business

  6. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Amended. 2-Smithee

  7. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#3943

  8. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  9. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Failed of adoption

  10. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#3944

  11. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  12. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid out as postponed business

  13. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Postponed. 5/28/25 9:00 AM

  14. 2025-05-26 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid out as postponed business

  15. 2025-05-26 Texas Legislature Online

    Postponed. 5/27/25 11:00 AM

  16. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid out as postponed business

  17. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Postponed. 5/26/25 11:00 AM

  18. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid out as postponed business

  19. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Postponed. 5/21/25 5:00 PM

  20. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid out as postponed business

  21. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Postponed. 5/22/25 12:00 PM

  22. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  23. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Postponed. 5/20/25 3:00 PM

  24. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid out as postponed business

  25. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Postponed. 5/21/25 1:00 PM

  26. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on Constitutional Amendments Calendar

  27. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  28. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Postponed

  29. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid out as postponed business

  30. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Point of order withdrawn. Rule 8, Section 1(a)(1)

  31. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Amended. 1-Smithee

  32. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Amendment tabled. 2-Romero

  33. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#2933

  34. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  35. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Amendment tabled. 3-Romero

  36. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#2934

  37. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  38. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Amendment withdrawn. 4-M. González

  39. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Rules suspended

  40. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Additional sponsor(s) authorized

  41. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to 3rd reading as amended

  42. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#2935

  43. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  44. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  45. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  46. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  47. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  48. 2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in formal meeting

  49. 2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee substitute considered in committee

  50. 2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Amendment(s) considered in committee

  51. 2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  52. 2025-03-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  53. 2025-03-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence

  54. 2025-02-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the Senate

  55. 2025-02-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Co-author authorized

  56. 2025-02-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  57. 2025-02-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote recorded in Journal

  58. 2025-02-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment

  59. 2025-02-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote recorded in Journal

  60. 2025-02-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Three day rule suspended

  61. 2025-02-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  62. 2025-02-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  63. 2025-02-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  64. 2025-02-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  65. 2025-02-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) submitted

  66. 2025-02-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) submitted

  67. 2025-02-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) submitted

  68. 2025-02-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  69. 2025-02-18 Texas Legislature Online

    Co-author authorized

  70. 2025-02-18 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on intent calendar

  71. 2025-02-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  72. 2025-02-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  73. 2025-02-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  74. 2025-02-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  75. 2025-02-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken in committee

  76. 2025-02-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  77. 2025-02-11 Texas Legislature Online

    Co-author authorized

  78. 2025-02-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  79. 2025-02-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Criminal Justice

  80. 2025-02-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Received by the Secretary of the Senate

  81. 2025-02-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the denial of bail under certain circumstances for illegal aliens charged with certain offenses punishable as a felony.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) SJR 1 - House Committee Report version - Bill Text

89R30683 E

By: Huffman, et al.

S.J.R. No. 1

(Smithee, DeAyala, Little, Cook, Louderback, et al.)

Substitute the following for S.J.R. No. 1:
No.

A JOINT RESOLUTION

proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the denial of bail

under certain circumstances for illegal aliens charged with certain

offenses punishable as a felony.

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

SECTION 1. This joint resolution shall be known as

Jocelyn's Law.

SECTION 2. Article I, Texas Constitution, is amended by

adding Section 11e to read as follows:

Sec.

11e.

(a)

In this section, "illegal alien" means an

alien who:

(1) before the date of the commission of the offense:

(A)

entered the United States without inspection

or at any time or any place other than as designated by the United

States attorney general; or

(B)

was admitted as a nonimmigrant and failed to

maintain the nonimmigrant status under which the alien was admitted

or to which it was changed under applicable federal immigration law

or to comply with the conditions of the alien's status; and

(2)

did not attain and maintain lawful presence in the

United States before the date of the commission of the offense.

(b)

For purposes of this section, a person is lawfully

present in the United States only if the person is a United States

citizen or has been granted status as a lawful permanent resident,

asylee, or refugee or status as a parolee under a military parole in

place program.

(c)

This section applies only to an illegal alien who is

accused of committing one or more of the following offenses:

(1)

criminal solicitation, if the offense is

punishable as a felony of the first degree;

(2) murder;

(3) capital murder;

(4) aggravated kidnapping;

(5) trafficking of persons;

(6) continuous trafficking of persons;

(7) indecency with a child;

(8) sexual assault;

(9) aggravated sexual assault;

(10)

injury to a child, if the offense is punishable as

a felony;

(11) aggravated robbery;

(12) burglary, if:

(A)

the offense is punishable as a felony of the

first degree; and

(B)

the illegal alien committed the offense with

the intent to commit one or more of the following offenses

punishable as a felony:

(i)

continuous sexual abuse of a young

child or disabled individual;

(ii) indecency with a child;

(iii) sexual assault;

(iv) aggravated sexual assault; or

(v) prohibited sexual conduct;

(13) aggravated promotion of prostitution;

(14) compelling prostitution;

(15) sexual performance by a child;

(16) possession or promotion of child pornography;

(17) an offense punishable as a felony if:

(A)

a deadly weapon, as that term is defined by

general law, was used or exhibited during the:

(i) commission of the offense; or

(ii)

immediate flight from the commission

of the offense; and

(B) the illegal alien:

(i) used or exhibited the deadly weapon; or

(ii)

was a party to the offense and knew

that a deadly weapon would be used or exhibited;

(18)

an offense under the Election Code that is

punishable as a felony of the third degree or any higher category of

offense;

(19)

an offense that involves the manufacture or

delivery of or possession with the intent to deliver a controlled

substance under the Health and Safety Code and that is punishable as

a felony; or

(20)

an offense punishable as a felony that involves

the manufacture, delivery, or possession of a controlled substance

and that was committed in a drug-free zone as provided by general

law, if the illegal alien has previously been convicted of an

offense punishable as a felony that involves the manufacture,

delivery, or possession of a controlled substance and that was

committed in a drug-free zone as provided by general law.

(d)

An illegal alien to whom this section applies shall be

denied bail pending trial if a judge or magistrate determines after

a hearing that probable cause exists to believe that the person

engaged in the conduct constituting the offense.

(e)

This section may not be construed to prevent a lawful

transfer of custody of an illegal alien who is denied bail under

this section.

SECTION 3. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be

submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 4, 2025.

The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the

proposition: "The constitutional amendment requiring the denial of

bail under certain circumstances for illegal aliens charged with

certain offenses punishable as a felony."