---
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).