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Bill Relating to creating a criminal offense for damaging certain critical infrastructure facilities and providing for the prosecution of that conduct as manslaughter in certain circumstances; increasing a criminal penalty. Relating to creating a criminal offense for damaging certain critical infrastructure facilities and providing for the prosecution of that conduct as manslaughter in certain circumstances; increasing a criminal penalty. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 88 SB 947 Texas SB 947 (88)
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Crimes--Against Persons--General (I0170)
Crimes--Miscellaneous (I0200)
Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment (I0205)
Utilities--Electric (I0831)
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King
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Texas SB 947 (88) — Relating to creating a criminal offense for damaging certain critical infrastructure facilities and providing for the prosecution of that conduct as manslaughter in certain circumstances; increasing a criminal penalty.

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 — 1470 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Hunter — primary (person)
  • King — primary (person)
  • Schwertner — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2023-02-15 Received by the Secretary of the Senate filing, introduction
  • 2023-02-15 Filed filing
  • 2023-03-03 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-03-03 Referred to Criminal Justice referral-committee
  • 2023-03-21 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2023-03-21 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-03-21 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2023-03-21 Left pending in committee
  • 2023-03-28 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-03-28 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2023-03-28 Vote taken in committee
  • 2023-03-28 Vote reconsidered in committee
  • 2023-03-28 Vote taken in committee
  • 2023-03-30 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-03-30 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
  • 2023-03-31 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2023-04-06 Placed on intent calendar
  • 2023-04-11 Not again placed on intent calendar
  • 2023-04-12 Placed on intent calendar
  • 2023-04-12 Placed on local & uncontested calendar
  • 2023-04-12 Laid before the Senate receipt
  • 2023-04-12 Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment reading-2
  • 2023-04-12 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-04-12 Three day rule suspended
  • 2023-04-12 Record vote
  • 2023-04-12 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-04-12 Passed passage
  • 2023-04-12 Record vote
  • 2023-04-12 Reported engrossed
  • 2023-04-12 Received from the Senate introduction
  • 2023-04-14 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-04-14 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
  • 2023-05-12 Considered in formal meeting
  • 2023-05-12 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-05-19 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2023-05-19 Committee report distributed
  • 2023-05-19 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2023-05-20 Considered in Calendars
  • 2023-05-22 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 House passage reported passage
  • 2023-05-23 Reported enrolled enrolled
  • 2023-05-24 Co-author authorized
  • 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/0504cd75-d93b-4ce9-aafa-64e841313852. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).