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Bill Relating to the creation of DNA records for a person arrested for a felony offense and the expunction of DNA records in certain circumstances. Relating to the creation of DNA records for a person arrested for a felony offense and the expunction of DNA records in certain circumstances. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 88 HB 3956 Texas HB 3956 (88)
bill
Courts--General (I0160)
Courts--Personnel (I0155)
Criminal Procedure--General (I0208)
DNA (S0100)
EXPUNCTION OF RECORDS (S0189)
Health--General (I0385)
Law Enforcement (I0510)
PUBLIC SAFETY
DEPARTMENT OF (V0251)
enacted
Cook
Creighton
Smith
5 49 2 2023-03-07 2023-06-10 openstates ocd-bill/1c00b4bb-c6a4-4548-8e53-e23040dd3848 ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/88R/billhistory/house_bills/HB03900_HB03999/HB 3956.xml fb4428003852b6ef9bca0b3c12085cec352aab349c862a1992f034eb4dc5e049 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-tx

Texas HB 3956 (88) — Relating to the creation of DNA records for a person arrested for a felony offense and the expunction of DNA records in certain circumstances.

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

  • Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that HB 3956 be placed on its third reading and final passage. — 301 (pass) · upper
  • passage — 13011 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Cook — primary (person)
  • Creighton — primary (person)
  • Smith — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2023-03-07 Filed filing
  • 2023-03-20 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-03-20 Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence referral-committee
  • 2023-04-04 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-04-04 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
  • 2023-04-04 Left pending in committee
  • 2023-04-11 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-04-11 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-04-20 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2023-04-20 Committee report distributed
  • 2023-04-24 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2023-04-25 Considered in Calendars
  • 2023-04-27 Placed on General State Calendar
  • 2023-04-27 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2023-04-27 Passed to engrossment
  • 2023-04-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-04-28 Passed passage
  • 2023-04-28 Record vote
  • 2023-04-28 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-04-28 Reported engrossed
  • 2023-05-01 Received from the House introduction
  • 2023-05-10 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-05-10 Referred to State Affairs referral-committee
  • 2023-05-11 Posting rule suspended
  • 2023-05-11 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-05-11 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2023-05-11 Left pending in committee
  • 2023-05-12 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-05-12 Vote taken in committee
  • 2023-05-15 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-05-15 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
  • 2023-05-15 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2023-05-18 Placed on intent calendar
  • 2023-05-21 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
  • 2023-05-21 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-05-21 Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading reading-2
  • 2023-05-21 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-05-21 Three day rule suspended
  • 2023-05-21 Record vote
  • 2023-05-21 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-05-21 Passed passage
  • 2023-05-21 Record vote
  • 2023-05-22 Senate passage reported passage
  • 2023-05-23 Reported enrolled enrolled
  • 2023-05-23 Signed in the House passage
  • 2023-05-24 Signed in the Senate passage
  • 2023-05-25 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
  • 2023-06-10 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2023-06-10 Effective on 9/1/23 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1c00b4bb-c6a4-4548-8e53-e23040dd3848. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).