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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to the discharge of a prisoner from a county jail."
+description: "Relating to the discharge of a prisoner from a county jail."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "SB 1700"
+citation: "Texas SB 1700 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Corrections--Jails & Prisons (I0092)", "County Government--Employees/Officers (I0095)", "SHERIFFS (S1013)", "JAIL STANDARDS", "COMMISSION ON (V9946)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Miller", "Whitmire"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 44
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-03-06"
+last_action: "2019-06-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b13e482d-5b63-4bfd-8d7c-9941144b51eb"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB01700_SB01799/SB 1700.xml"
+source_hash: "c13e9caf2b972fb8b501f497501bf3c2db8fc07abfabca82e02ebee511c75f13"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tx"]
+---
+
+# Texas SB 1700 (86) — Relating to the discharge of a prisoner from a county jail.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/86R/billtext/html/SB01700I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **139–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Miller — primary (person)
+- Whitmire — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-03-06** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
+- **2019-03-06** Filed `filing`
+- **2019-03-14** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-03-14** Referred to Criminal Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-16** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-04-16** Meeting cancelled
+- **2019-04-16** Posting rule suspended
+- **2019-04-17** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-04-17** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-04-23** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-23** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
+- **2019-04-23** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2019-05-03** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
+- **2019-05-03** Laid before the Senate
+- **2019-05-03** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
+- **2019-05-03** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-03** Three day rule suspended
+- **2019-05-03** Record vote
+- **2019-05-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-03** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-03** Record vote
+- **2019-05-03** Reported engrossed
+- **2019-05-03** Received from the Senate `introduction`
+- **2019-05-06** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-05-06** Referred to County Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-08** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-05-08** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
+- **2019-05-09** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-05-09** Committee report distributed
+- **2019-05-10** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2019-05-13** Considered in Calendars
+- **2019-05-15** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2019-05-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-15** Passed to 3rd reading
+- **2019-05-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-16** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-16** Record vote
+- **2019-05-16** House passage reported
+- **2019-05-16** Reported enrolled
+- **2019-05-17** Signed in the Senate
+- **2019-05-20** Signed in the House
+- **2019-05-20** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-02** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-02** Effective on 9/1/19 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b13e482d-5b63-4bfd-8d7c-9941144b51eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
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