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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to the prosecution of the offense of taking or attempting to take a weapon from certain officers, investigators, employees, or officials."
+description: "Relating to the prosecution of the offense of taking or attempting to take a weapon from certain officers, investigators, employees, or officials."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "SB 1754"
+citation: "Texas SB 1754 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Crimes--Miscellaneous (I0200)", "Criminal Procedure--General (I0208)", "Law Enforcement (I0510)", "Weapons (I0887)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bell, Keith", "Burns", "Huffman"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 47
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-03-06"
+last_action: "2019-06-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cca91aec-305d-4b65-acaf-570488d4e36d"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB01700_SB01799/SB 1754.xml"
+source_hash: "c6e69d4adedb19730a3727537b1feb115debe364da34a1d60b9897945d933c80"
+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 1754 (86) — Relating to the prosecution of the offense of taking or attempting to take a weapon from certain officers, investigators, employees, or officials.
+
+## 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/SB01754I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **137–6** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bell, Keith — primary (person)
+- Burns — primary (person)
+- Huffman — 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`
+- **2019-04-09** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-04-09** Meeting cancelled
+- **2019-04-10** Posting rule suspended
+- **2019-04-10** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-04-10** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-04-10** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-04-17** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-04-23** Reported favorably w/o amendments `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`
+- **2019-05-07** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-05-07** Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-10** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2019-05-10** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
+- **2019-05-14** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-05-14** Committee report distributed
+- **2019-05-15** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2019-05-19** Considered in Calendars
+- **2019-05-21** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2019-05-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-21** Passed to 3rd reading
+- **2019-05-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-22** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-22** Record vote
+- **2019-05-22** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-22** House passage reported
+- **2019-05-22** Reported enrolled
+- **2019-05-24** Signed in the Senate
+- **2019-05-25** Signed in the House
+- **2019-05-25** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-10** 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/cca91aec-305d-4b65-acaf-570488d4e36d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+