republic-os/legislation/us/states/tx/87/hb-1306.md

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Bill	Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for assault or aggravated assault of a process server.	Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for assault or aggravated assault of a process server.	us/states/tx	Texas Legislature	87	HB 1306	Texas HB 1306 (87)	bill	Crimes--Against Persons--General (I0170) Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment (I0205) PROCESS SERVERS (S0725)	enacted	Bettencourt Dominguez Pacheco Swanson	5	46	1	2021-01-25	2021-06-09	openstates	ocd-bill/70daeb88-9260-4824-8eb1-531c5f8e3731	ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/87R/billhistory/house_bills/HB01300_HB01399/HB 1306.xml	f9e1e2f73bf78dd13889dacd57d942a2ec1fb8cafd621f3240ee30861ee12139	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-tx

Texas HB 1306 (87) — Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for assault or aggravated assault of a process server.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
3. House Committee Report (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Committee Report (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• passage — 126–18 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bettencourt — primary (person)
• Dominguez — primary (person)
• Pacheco — primary (person)
• Swanson — primary (person)
• Patterson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-25 Filed filing
• 2021-03-04 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2021-03-04 Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence referral-committee
• 2021-04-26 Considered in public hearing
• 2021-04-26 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
• 2021-04-26 Left pending in committee
• 2021-04-29 Considered in formal meeting
• 2021-04-29 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage
• 2021-05-05 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
• 2021-05-05 Committee report distributed
• 2021-05-06 Committee report sent to Calendars
• 2021-05-08 Considered in Calendars
• 2021-05-11 Placed on General State Calendar
• 2021-05-13 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2021-05-13 Passed to engrossment
• 2021-05-14 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2021-05-14 Passed passage
• 2021-05-14 Record vote
• 2021-05-14 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2021-05-14 Reported engrossed
• 2021-05-17 Received from the House introduction
• 2021-05-17 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2021-05-17 Referred to Criminal Justice referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 Posting rule suspended
• 2021-05-21 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
• 2021-05-21 Considered in public hearing
• 2021-05-22 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-22 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
• 2021-05-22 Committee report printed and distributed
• 2021-05-25 Placed on intent calendar
• 2021-05-25 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
• 2021-05-25 Vote recorded in Journal
• 2021-05-25 Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
• 2021-05-25 Vote recorded in Journal
• 2021-05-25 Three day rule suspended
• 2021-05-25 Record vote
• 2021-05-25 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2021-05-25 Passed passage
• 2021-05-25 Record vote
• 2021-05-27 Senate passage reported
• 2021-05-27 Reported enrolled
• 2021-05-28 Signed in the House
• 2021-05-29 Signed in the Senate
• 2021-05-29 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-06-09 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2021-06-09 Effective on 9/1/21 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/70daeb88-9260-4824-8eb1-531c5f8e3731. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).