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Bill Relating to the preference given by trial courts to hearings and trials for murder and capital murder offenses. Relating to the preference given by trial courts to hearings and trials for murder and capital murder offenses. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 88 SB 402 Texas SB 402 (88)
bill
Crimes--Capital Punishment (I0195)
enacted
Harless
Whitmire
5 52 3 2023-01-12 2023-06-18 openstates ocd-bill/0ef8373d-7efc-4675-80ff-da8b7487670b ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/88R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00400_SB00499/SB 402.xml 5a4a39ada7c2fd75c99ac4269531a8c0413861f1bbe63f5efdcac27f7282cfc2 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-tx

Texas SB 402 (88) — Relating to the preference given by trial courts to hearings and trials for murder and capital murder offenses.

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 SB 402 be placed on its third reading and final passage. — 300 (pass) · upper
  • passage — 1353 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 300 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Harless — primary (person)
  • Whitmire — primary (person)
  • Bettencourt — cosponsor (person)
  • Creighton — cosponsor (person)
  • Huffman — cosponsor (person)
  • Miles — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2023-01-12 Received by the Secretary of the Senate filing, introduction
  • 2023-01-12 Filed filing
  • 2023-02-15 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-02-15 Referred to Criminal Justice referral-committee
  • 2023-03-01 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2023-03-01 Meeting cancelled
  • 2023-03-07 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2023-03-07 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-03-07 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2023-03-07 Vote taken in committee
  • 2023-03-09 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-03-09 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2023-03-13 Co-author authorized
  • 2023-03-14 Co-author authorized
  • 2023-03-14 Placed on intent calendar
  • 2023-03-15 Co-author authorized
  • 2023-03-15 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
  • 2023-03-15 Record vote
  • 2023-03-15 Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment reading-2
  • 2023-03-15 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-03-15 Three day rule suspended
  • 2023-03-15 Record vote
  • 2023-03-15 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-03-15 Passed passage
  • 2023-03-15 Record vote
  • 2023-03-15 Reported engrossed
  • 2023-03-16 Received from the Senate introduction
  • 2023-04-10 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-04-10 Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence referral-committee
  • 2023-05-02 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-05-02 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
  • 2023-05-02 Left pending in committee
  • 2023-05-09 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-05-09 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-05-17 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2023-05-17 Committee report distributed
  • 2023-05-18 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2023-05-18 Considered in Calendars
  • 2023-05-20 Placed on General State Calendar
  • 2023-05-22 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2023-05-22 Passed to 3rd reading
  • 2023-05-23 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-05-23 Passed passage
  • 2023-05-23 Record vote
  • 2023-05-23 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-05-23 House passage reported passage
  • 2023-05-23 Reported enrolled enrolled
  • 2023-05-25 Signed in the Senate passage
  • 2023-05-26 Signed in the House passage
  • 2023-05-29 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
  • 2023-06-18 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2023-06-18 Effective on 9/1/23 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0ef8373d-7efc-4675-80ff-da8b7487670b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).