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Bill Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for assault of certain hospital personnel. Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for assault of certain hospital personnel. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 88 SB 840 Texas SB 840 (88)
bill
Crimes--Against Persons--General (I0170)
Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment (I0205)
Health Care Providers (I0387)
Hospitals (I0400)
JACQUELINE "JACKIE" POKUAA AND KATIE "ANNETTE" FLOWERS ACT (PF9B6)
enacted
Anchía
Johnson, Julie
Jones, Venton
West
5 51 3 2023-02-10 2023-05-24 openstates ocd-bill/e4f85988-2128-4ee6-8b44-ef80c4037dd3 ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/88R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00800_SB00899/SB 840.xml 2f76f74f0704dcbc914071e1be5b5e851682a36805f1f30dfca9865f218e440b 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-tx

Texas SB 840 (88) — Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for assault of certain hospital personnel.

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 840 be placed on its third reading and final passage. — 310 (pass) · upper
  • passage — 300 (pass) · upper
  • passage — 1391 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Anchía — primary (person)
  • Johnson, Julie — primary (person)
  • Jones, Venton — primary (person)
  • West — primary (person)
  • Bowers — cosponsor (person)
  • Buckley — cosponsor (person)
  • Campos — cosponsor (person)
  • Cook — cosponsor (person)
  • Garcia — cosponsor (person)
  • González, Jessica — cosponsor (person)
  • Goodwin — cosponsor (person)
  • Gámez — cosponsor (person)
  • Hayes — cosponsor (person)
  • Hinojosa — cosponsor (person)
  • Lalani — cosponsor (person)
  • Lambert — cosponsor (person)
  • Landgraf — cosponsor (person)
  • Lopez, Janie — cosponsor (person)
  • Meza — cosponsor (person)
  • Miles — cosponsor (person)
  • Morales Shaw — cosponsor (person)
  • Morales, Eddie — cosponsor (person)
  • Sherman, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
  • Turner — cosponsor (person)
  • Wu — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2023-02-10 Received by the Secretary of the Senate filing, introduction
  • 2023-02-10 Filed filing
  • 2023-03-01 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-03-01 Referred to Criminal Justice referral-committee
  • 2023-04-18 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2023-04-18 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-04-18 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2023-04-18 Vote taken in committee
  • 2023-04-19 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-04-19 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
  • 2023-04-19 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2023-04-25 Placed on intent calendar
  • 2023-04-27 Placed on local & uncontested calendar
  • 2023-04-26 Co-author authorized
  • 2023-04-26 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
  • 2023-04-26 Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment reading-2
  • 2023-04-26 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-04-26 Three day rule suspended
  • 2023-04-26 Record vote
  • 2023-04-26 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-04-26 Passed passage
  • 2023-04-26 Record vote
  • 2023-04-26 Reported engrossed
  • 2023-04-26 Received from the Senate introduction
  • 2023-04-27 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-04-27 Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence referral-committee
  • 2023-05-02 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-05-02 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-05-03 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2023-05-03 Committee report distributed
  • 2023-05-04 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2023-05-06 Laid out in lieu of companion
  • 2023-05-06 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2023-05-06 Amended amendment-passage
  • 2023-05-06 Passed to 3rd reading as amended amendment-passage
  • 2023-05-08 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-05-08 Passed passage
  • 2023-05-08 Record vote
  • 2023-05-08 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-05-08 House passage as amended reported amendment-passage
  • 2023-05-11 House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
  • 2023-05-11 Read
  • 2023-05-11 Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
  • 2023-05-11 Record vote
  • 2023-05-11 Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported
  • 2023-05-11 Reported enrolled enrolled
  • 2023-05-12 Signed in the Senate passage
  • 2023-05-12 Signed in the House passage
  • 2023-05-12 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
  • 2023-05-24 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2023-05-24 Effective on 9/1/23 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e4f85988-2128-4ee6-8b44-ef80c4037dd3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).