Criminal Justice

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

Criminal Justice; Providing criminal penalties for persons who commit any act that causes, tends to cause, encourages, or contributes to a child committing offenses of specified severities; providing criminal penalties for an adult who causes or entices a minor to commit, or in the presence of a minor commits, a specified violation of law relating to animal cruelty, etc.

Every action

12 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

1. Feb 28, 2025SenateFiled
2. Mar 7, 2025CommitteeReferred to Criminal Justice; Agriculture; Rules · Senate Criminal Justice
3. Mar 10, 2025SenateIntroduced
4. Mar 13, 2025CommitteeOn Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 03/18/25, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building · Senate Criminal Justice
5. Mar 18, 2025CommitteeCS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 · Senate Criminal Justice8–0 vote
6. Mar 20, 2025SenatePending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
7. Mar 20, 2025SenateOriginal reference(s) removed: Agriculture
8. Mar 20, 2025SenateRemaining references corrected to Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Rules
9. Mar 20, 2025CommitteeNow in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice · Senate Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
10. Mar 26, 2025CommitteeCS by Criminal Justice read 1st time · Senate Criminal Justice
11. May 3, 2025SenateIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
12. Jun 16, 2025CommitteeDied in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice · Senate Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice

Roll calls

1 recorded vote: 0 on the floor, 1 in committee. Each shows how every member voted.

Committee votes

Sponsors

The member who introduced it.

• Kristen Aston ArringtonD Primary sponsor · District 25
• CJ Criminal Justice Sponsoring committee