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Bill Relating to a defense to prosecution for certain offenses involving possession of small amounts of controlled substances, marihuana, dangerous drugs, or abusable volatile chemicals, or possession of drug paraphernalia for defendants seeking assistance for a suspected overdose. Relating to a defense to prosecution for certain offenses involving possession of small amounts of controlled substances, marihuana, dangerous drugs, or abusable volatile chemicals, or possession of drug paraphernalia for defendants seeking assistance for a suspected overdose. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 87 HB 1694 Texas HB 1694 (87)
bill
Alcoholism & Drug Abuse (I0030)
Crimes--Drugs (I0185)
Health--Emergency Services & Personnel (I0384)
enacted
Guerra
Guillen
Johnson, Jarvis
Leach
Raney
Schwertner
5 47 1 2021-02-09 2021-06-16 openstates ocd-bill/abf4b09e-2b34-4b7f-93c4-bb1152e2f82b ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/87R/billhistory/house_bills/HB01600_HB01699/HB 1694.xml 60ce3a4fb4889ba6a3cd5d42cb91b71b7bc27fe828906d41c96df1d44493b06a 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Texas HB 1694 (87) — Relating to a defense to prosecution for certain offenses involving possession of small amounts of controlled substances, marihuana, dangerous drugs, or abusable volatile chemicals, or possession of drug paraphernalia for defendants seeking assistance for a suspected overdose.

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 — 1452 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Guerra — primary (person)
  • Guillen — primary (person)
  • Johnson, Jarvis — primary (person)
  • Leach — primary (person)
  • Raney — primary (person)
  • Schwertner — primary (person)
  • Anderson — cosponsor (person)
  • Bucy — cosponsor (person)
  • Campos — cosponsor (person)
  • Cole — cosponsor (person)
  • Eckhardt — cosponsor (person)
  • Hinojosa — cosponsor (person)
  • Israel — cosponsor (person)
  • Johnson, Julie — cosponsor (person)
  • Kacal — cosponsor (person)
  • Lambert — cosponsor (person)
  • Lopez — cosponsor (person)
  • Martinez Fischer — cosponsor (person)
  • Meza — cosponsor (person)
  • Minjarez — cosponsor (person)
  • Ortega — cosponsor (person)
  • Pacheco — cosponsor (person)
  • Turner, Chris — cosponsor (person)
  • Wu — cosponsor (person)
  • Zwiener — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2021-02-09 Filed filing
  • 2021-03-09 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2021-03-09 Referred to Public Health referral-committee
  • 2021-03-24 Considered in public hearing
  • 2021-03-24 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
  • 2021-03-24 Left pending in committee
  • 2021-03-31 Considered in public hearing
  • 2021-03-31 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage
  • 2021-04-08 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
  • 2021-04-09 Committee report distributed
  • 2021-04-09 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2021-04-15 Considered in Calendars
  • 2021-04-20 Placed on General State Calendar
  • 2021-04-20 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2021-04-20 Amended amendment-passage
  • 2021-04-20 Passed to engrossment as amended
  • 2021-04-21 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2021-04-21 Amended amendment-passage
  • 2021-04-21 Passed as amended passage
  • 2021-04-21 Record vote
  • 2021-04-21 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2021-04-22 Reported engrossed
  • 2021-04-22 Received from the House introduction
  • 2021-05-13 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2021-05-13 Referred to Criminal Justice referral-committee
  • 2021-05-18 Considered in public hearing
  • 2021-05-20 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
  • 2021-05-20 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
  • 2021-05-20 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2021-05-22 Co-sponsor authorized
  • 2021-05-22 Placed on intent calendar
  • 2021-05-24 Co-sponsor authorized
  • 2021-05-24 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
  • 2021-05-24 Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
  • 2021-05-24 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2021-05-24 Three day rule suspended
  • 2021-05-24 Record vote
  • 2021-05-24 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2021-05-24 Passed passage
  • 2021-05-24 Record vote
  • 2021-05-26 Senate passage reported
  • 2021-05-26 Reported enrolled
  • 2021-05-27 Signed in the House
  • 2021-05-27 Signed in the Senate
  • 2021-05-28 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
  • 2021-06-16 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2021-06-16 Effective on 9/1/21 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/abf4b09e-2b34-4b7f-93c4-bb1152e2f82b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).