---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the criminal offense of making a false report to a peace officer, federal special investigator, law enforcement employee, corrections officer, or jailer."
description: "Relating to the criminal offense of making a false report to a peace officer, federal special investigator, law enforcement employee, corrections officer, or jailer."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "SB 405"
citation: "Texas SB 405 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Corrections--Jails & Prisons (I0092)", "Crimes--Miscellaneous (I0200)", "Criminal Procedure--General (I0208)", "JAILERS & PRISON GUARDS (S0341)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Birdwell", "Burns", "Moody"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 44
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-01-22"
last_action: "2019-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c9a4431b-5b54-4832-afe9-df5150bb8c43"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00400_SB00499/SB 405.xml"
source_hash: "f758390c8136d7ed74e3aa35f0f3cb47b3bf650b2592e83eebc2432e67bc0612"
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 405 (86) — Relating to the criminal offense of making a false report to a peace officer, federal special investigator, law enforcement employee, corrections officer, or jailer.

## 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/SB00405I.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **141–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Birdwell — primary (person)
- Burns — primary (person)
- Moody — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-22** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
- **2019-01-22** Filed `filing`
- **2019-02-14** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-14** 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 w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-23** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-04-23** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-04-24** Placed on intent calendar
- **2019-04-25** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- **2019-04-25** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
- **2019-04-25** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-04-25** Three day rule suspended
- **2019-04-25** Record vote
- **2019-04-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-25** Passed `passage`
- **2019-04-25** Record vote
- **2019-04-25** Reported engrossed
- **2019-04-25** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2019-04-29** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-04-29** Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-14** Considered in formal meeting
- **2019-05-14** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
- **2019-05-15** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-05-15** Committee report distributed
- **2019-05-16** 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** 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`
- **2019-06-07** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-07** 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/c9a4431b-5b54-4832-afe9-df5150bb8c43`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).