---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to meetings or visits between a defendant on community supervision and a supervision officer."
description: "Relating to meetings or visits between a defendant on community supervision and a supervision officer."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "HB 374"
citation: "Texas HB 374 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Corrections--Parole", "Probation & Pardons (I0093)", "MANDATORY & COMMUNITY SUPERVISION (S2314)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen", "Bowers", "Miles"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 54
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-11-15"
last_action: "2019-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/65ba1e44-faf7-4e06-bb23-bc3eab0ce955"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00300_HB00399/HB 374.xml"
source_hash: "c6e9e4f644d57463513fd15a73f1a12a537ba0588ff94be62147c1afc0dcb17b"
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 HB 374 (86) — Relating to meetings or visits between a defendant on community supervision and a supervision officer.

## 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/HB00374I.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **142–5** (pass) · lower
- other — **106–0** (fail) · upper
- passage — **106–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Allen — primary (person)
- Bowers — primary (person)
- Miles — primary (person)
- Sherman, Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-11-15** Filed `filing`
- **2019-02-19** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-19** Referred to Corrections `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-02-28** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2019-02-28** Left pending in committee
- **2019-03-14** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-03-14** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2019-03-14** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-18** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-03-18** Committee report distributed
- **2019-03-19** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2019-03-21** Considered in Calendars
- **2019-03-27** Considered in Calendars
- **2019-04-01** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2019-04-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-01** Passed to engrossment
- **2019-04-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-02** Passed `passage`
- **2019-04-02** Record vote
- **2019-04-02** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-04-02** Reported engrossed
- **2019-04-03** Received from the House `introduction`
- **2019-04-04** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-04-04** Referred to Criminal Justice `referral-committee`
- **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
- **2019-04-25** Placed on intent calendar
- **2019-04-29** Not again placed on intent calendar
- **2019-05-01** Placed on intent calendar
- **2019-05-01** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- **2019-05-01** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
- **2019-05-01** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-01** Three day rule suspended
- **2019-05-01** Record vote
- **2019-05-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-01** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-01** Record vote
- **2019-05-01** Senate passage as amended reported
- **2019-05-01** Senate Amendments distributed
- **2019-05-01** Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
- **2019-05-10** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
- **2019-05-10** Record vote
- **2019-05-10** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-10** Text of Senate Amendment(s)
- **2019-05-10** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-13** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported
- **2019-05-13** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-14** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-14** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-24** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-24** 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/65ba1e44-faf7-4e06-bb23-bc3eab0ce955`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).