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Bill Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of trafficking of persons if committed at certain locations. Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of trafficking of persons if committed at certain locations. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 88 HB 3554 Texas HB 3554 (88)
bill
Crimes--Against Persons--Sexual (I0171)
Family--Child Protection (I0351)
HUMAN TRAFFICKING (S0696)
Minors--Crimes Against (I0532)
enacted
Cook
Jetton
Moody
Shaheen
Thierry
Whitmire
5 46 2 2023-03-06 2023-06-09 openstates ocd-bill/46ac58b4-c302-4a56-b328-dc9b157d56f0 ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/88R/billhistory/house_bills/HB03500_HB03599/HB 3554.xml c72fcf028e904a1c1757d00fe9bc9e2d45c0cc5c9a0de5bef51a7a1039d2f094 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-tx

Texas HB 3554 (88) — Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of trafficking of persons if committed at certain locations.

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 — 1450 (pass) · lower
  • Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that HB 3554 be placed on its third reading and final passage. — 310 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Cook — primary (person)
  • Jetton — primary (person)
  • Moody — primary (person)
  • Shaheen — primary (person)
  • Thierry — primary (person)
  • Whitmire — primary (person)
  • Anderson — cosponsor (person)
  • Bumgarner — cosponsor (person)
  • Button — cosponsor (person)
  • Campos — cosponsor (person)
  • Collier — cosponsor (person)
  • Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
  • Flores — cosponsor (person)
  • Frank — cosponsor (person)
  • Frazier — cosponsor (person)
  • Garcia — cosponsor (person)
  • Gates — cosponsor (person)
  • Gámez — cosponsor (person)
  • Harless — cosponsor (person)
  • Harris, Caroline — cosponsor (person)
  • Hefner — cosponsor (person)
  • Hernandez — cosponsor (person)
  • Holland — cosponsor (person)
  • Howard — cosponsor (person)
  • Hull — cosponsor (person)
  • Johnson, Julie — cosponsor (person)
  • Jones, Jolanda — cosponsor (person)
  • Jones, Venton — cosponsor (person)
  • Kitzman — cosponsor (person)
  • Landgraf — cosponsor (person)
  • Lozano — cosponsor (person)
  • Manuel — cosponsor (person)
  • Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
  • Meza — cosponsor (person)
  • Morales, Christina — cosponsor (person)
  • Morales, Eddie — cosponsor (person)
  • Neave Criado — cosponsor (person)
  • Noble — cosponsor (person)
  • Ordaz — cosponsor (person)
  • Patterson — cosponsor (person)
  • Paul — cosponsor (person)
  • Perez — cosponsor (person)
  • Plesa — cosponsor (person)
  • Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
  • Rose — cosponsor (person)
  • Schatzline — cosponsor (person)
  • Slawson — cosponsor (person)
  • Spiller — cosponsor (person)
  • Tepper — cosponsor (person)
  • Thimesch — cosponsor (person)
  • Toth — cosponsor (person)
  • Troxclair — cosponsor (person)
  • VanDeaver — cosponsor (person)
  • Vasut — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2023-03-06 Filed filing
  • 2023-03-16 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-03-16 Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence referral-committee
  • 2023-04-11 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-04-11 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
  • 2023-04-11 Left pending in committee
  • 2023-04-17 Considered in formal meeting
  • 2023-04-17 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-04-27 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2023-04-28 Committee report distributed
  • 2023-04-28 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2023-05-01 Considered in Calendars
  • 2023-05-03 Placed on General State Calendar
  • 2023-05-03 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2023-05-03 Amended amendment-passage
  • 2023-05-03 Passed to engrossment as amended amendment-passage
  • 2023-05-04 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-05-04 Passed passage
  • 2023-05-04 Record vote
  • 2023-05-04 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-05-04 Reported engrossed
  • 2023-05-05 Received from the House introduction
  • 2023-05-10 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-05-10 Referred to Criminal Justice referral-committee
  • 2023-05-16 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2023-05-16 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-05-16 Vote taken in committee
  • 2023-05-17 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-05-17 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
  • 2023-05-17 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2023-05-18 Placed on intent calendar
  • 2023-05-18 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
  • 2023-05-18 Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading reading-2
  • 2023-05-18 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-05-18 Three day rule suspended
  • 2023-05-18 Record vote
  • 2023-05-18 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-05-18 Passed passage
  • 2023-05-18 Record vote
  • 2023-05-19 Senate passage reported passage
  • 2023-05-19 Reported enrolled enrolled
  • 2023-05-22 Signed in the House passage
  • 2023-05-23 Signed in the Senate passage
  • 2023-05-24 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
  • 2023-06-09 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2023-06-09 Effective on 9/1/23 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/46ac58b4-c302-4a56-b328-dc9b157d56f0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).