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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) |
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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 |
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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.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
- House Committee Report (committee substitute) — source
- Senate Committee Report (committee substitute) — source
- 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. — 30–0 (pass) · upper
- passage — 135–3 (pass) · lower
- passage — 30–0 (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).