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Bill Relating to the definition of authorized peace officer for purposes of certain laws governing the installation and use of tracking equipment and access to certain communications. Relating to the definition of authorized peace officer for purposes of certain laws governing the installation and use of tracking equipment and access to certain communications. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 89R SB 739 Texas SB 739 (89R)
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City Government--Employees/Officers (I0061)
County Government--Employees/Officers (I0095)
Crimes--Miscellaneous (I0200)
Criminal Procedure--General (I0208)
Electronic Information Systems (I0311)
INSURANCE
COMMISSIONER OF (V0396)
Insurance--General (I0445)
Law Enforcement (I0510)
Occupational Regulation--Other Trades & Professions (I0541)
PEACE OFFICERS (S0007)
enacted
Bhojani
Kolkhorst
5 48 2 2025-01-08 2025-06-20 openstates ocd-bill/a1d09892-fabc-48c9-83e3-33f102ff5ba6 ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00700_SB00799/SB 739.xml 00eef6bd8fb01546be7e5baa47f8e8bf0ec971dacd2722d7068ce195f965eade 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-tx

Texas SB 739 (89R) — Relating to the definition of authorized peace officer for purposes of certain laws governing the installation and use of tracking equipment and access to certain communications.

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 — 9650 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 9933 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Bhojani — primary (person)
  • Kolkhorst — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-01-08 Received by the Secretary of the Senate filing, introduction
  • 2025-01-08 Filed filing
  • 2025-02-07 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2025-02-07 Referred to Criminal Justice referral-committee
  • 2025-04-22 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2025-04-22 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-04-22 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2025-04-22 Vote taken in committee
  • 2025-04-23 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-04-23 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
  • 2025-04-23 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2025-05-01 Placed on local & uncontested calendar
  • 2025-05-01 Laid before the Senate receipt
  • 2025-05-01 Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment reading-2
  • 2025-05-01 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-05-01 Three day rule suspended
  • 2025-05-01 Record vote
  • 2025-05-01 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2025-05-01 Passed passage
  • 2025-05-01 Record vote
  • 2025-05-01 Reported engrossed
  • 2025-05-01 Received from the Senate introduction
  • 2025-05-02 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2025-05-02 Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence referral-committee
  • 2025-05-08 Considered in formal meeting
  • 2025-05-08 Failed to receive affirmative vote in comm. committee-failure
  • 2025-05-12 Considered in formal meeting
  • 2025-05-12 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-05-15 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2025-05-15 Committee report distributed
  • 2025-05-15 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2025-05-16 Considered in Calendars
  • 2025-05-20 Placed on General State Calendar
  • 2025-05-20 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2025-05-20 Passed to 3rd reading
  • 2025-05-20 Record vote
  • 2025-05-20 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-05-21 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2025-05-21 Passed passage
  • 2025-05-21 Record vote
  • 2025-05-21 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-05-21 House passage reported passage
  • 2025-05-21 Reported enrolled enrolled
  • 2025-05-22 Signed in the Senate passage
  • 2025-05-22 Signed in the House passage
  • 2025-05-22 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
  • 2025-06-20 Filed without the Governor's signature became-law
  • 2025-06-20 Effective on 9/1/25 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a1d09892-fabc-48c9-83e3-33f102ff5ba6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).