TX SB 2878

vetoed

Relating to the operation and administration of and practices and procedures related to proceedings in the judicial branch of state government, including court security, court documents and arrest warrants, document delivery, juvenile boards, constitutional amendment election challenges, mandatory expunction for certain persons, record retention, and youth diversion; increasing a criminal penalty; authorizing fees.

Texas · 89th Legislature (2025 Regular Session) · upper

Quick answers

Did TX SB 2878 pass?

No. TX SB 2878 passed the legislature but was vetoed on 2025-06-22. Latest recorded action (2025-06-22): Vetoed by the Governor

What is TX SB 2878 about?

TX SB 2878 is a bill in the 89th Legislature (2025 Regular Session) titled “Relating to the operation and administration of and practices and procedures related to proceedings in the judicial branch of state government, including court security, court documents and arrest warrants, document delivery, juvenile boards, constitutional amendment election challenges, mandatory expunction for certain persons, record retention, and youth diversion; increasing a criminal penalty; authorizing fees.”.

Who sponsors TX SB 2878?

Hughes, Leach, Morales, Eddie are the primary sponsors of TX SB 2878, joined by 1 cosponsor.

Introduced: 2025-03-14
Latest action: 2025-06-22 — Vetoed by the Governor
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

2025-03-14
Received by the Secretary of the Senate
filing,introduction
2025-03-14
Filed
filing
2025-04-07
Read first time
introduction,reading-1
2025-04-07
Referred to Jurisprudence
referral-committee
2025-04-16
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
2025-04-16
Considered in public hearing
2025-04-16
Left pending in committee
2025-04-29
Considered in public hearing
2025-04-29
Vote taken in committee
2025-05-07
Reported favorably as substituted
committee-passage-favorable
2025-05-07
Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
2025-05-08
Committee report printed and distributed
2025-05-09
Placed on intent calendar
2025-05-12
Rules suspended-Regular order of business
2025-05-12
Read 2nd time
reading-2
2025-05-12
Amendment(s) offered
amendment-introduction
2025-05-12
Amended
amendment-passage
2025-05-12
Vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-12
Amendment(s) offered
amendment-introduction
2025-05-12
Amended
amendment-passage
2025-05-12
Vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-12
Passed to engrossment as amended
amendment-passage
2025-05-12
Vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-12
Three day rule suspended
2025-05-12
Record vote
2025-05-12
Read 3rd time
reading-3
2025-05-12
Passed
passage
2025-05-12
Record vote
2025-05-12
Statement(s) submitted
2025-05-12
Reported engrossed
2025-05-12
Received from the Senate
introduction
2025-05-14
Read first time
introduction,reading-1
2025-05-14
Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence
referral-committee
2025-05-21
Considered in public hearing
2025-05-21
Committee substitute considered in committee
substitution
2025-05-21
Reported favorably as substituted
committee-passage-favorable
2025-05-24
Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
filing
2025-05-24
Committee report distributed
2025-05-24
Committee report sent to Calendars
2025-05-24
Considered in Calendars
2025-05-26
Placed on Major State Calendar
2025-05-26
Read 2nd time
reading-2
2025-05-26
Postponed
2025-05-26
Laid out as postponed business
2025-05-26
Postponed
2025-05-26
Laid out as postponed business
2025-05-26
Amendment withdrawn
amendment-withdrawal,withdrawal
2025-05-26
Amended
amendment-passage
2025-05-26
Record vote
2025-05-26
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-26
Amended
amendment-passage
2025-05-26
Record vote
2025-05-26
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-26
Amended
amendment-passage
2025-05-26
Record vote
2025-05-26
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-26
Passed to 3rd reading as amended
amendment-passage
2025-05-26
Record vote
2025-05-26
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-27
Read 3rd time
reading-3
2025-05-27
Amended
amendment-passage
2025-05-27
Record vote
2025-05-27
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-27
Passed as amended
amendment-passage,passage
2025-05-27
Record vote
2025-05-27
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-27
House passage as amended reported
amendment-passage
2025-05-28
House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
2025-05-28
Read
2025-05-28
Senate refuses to concur
2025-05-28
Senate requests conference committee
2025-05-28
Senate appoints conferees
2025-05-28
Senate refuses to concur-reported
2025-05-28
Senate requests conference committee-reported
2025-05-28
Senate appoints conferees-reported
2025-05-29
House grants request for conference committee
2025-05-29
House appoints conferees
2025-05-29
House grants request for conf comm-reported
2025-05-29
House appoints conferees-reported
2025-05-30
Conference committee report filed
filing
2025-05-30
Conf. Comm. Report distributed
2025-05-31
Co-author authorized
2025-05-31
Senate adopts conference committee report
committee-passage-favorable
2025-05-31
Record vote
2025-05-31
Senate adopts conf. comm. report-reported
2025-06-01
House adopts conference committee report
committee-passage-favorable
2025-06-01
Record vote
2025-06-01
House adopts conf. comm. report-reported
2025-06-02
Reported enrolled
enrolled
2025-06-02
Signed in the Senate
passage
2025-06-02
Signed in the House
passage
2025-06-03
Sent to the Governor
executive-receipt
2025-06-22
Vetoed by the Governor
executive-veto

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Documents

Votes

Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that CSSB 2878 be placed on its third reading and final passage.
2025-05-12 · pass · 30-0
Member-level votes (1)
- Gutierrez: absent
passage
2025-05-26 · pass · 134-8
Member-level votes (154)
- Alders: yes
- Allen: yes
- Anchía: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Barry: yes
- Bell, C.: yes
- Bell, K.: yes
- Bernal: yes
- Bhojani: yes
- Bonnen: yes
- Bryant: yes
- Buckley: yes
- Bucy: yes
- Bumgarner: yes
- Button: yes
- Cain: yes
- Campos: yes
- Canales: yes
- Capriglione: yes
- Cole: yes
- Collier: yes
- Cook: yes
- Cortez: yes
- Cunningham: yes
- Curry: yes
- Darby: yes
- Davis, A.: yes
- Davis, Y.: yes
- Dean: yes
- DeAyala: yes
- Dorazio: yes
- Dutton: yes
- Dyson: yes
- Fairly: yes
- Flores: yes
- Frank: yes
- Gámez: yes
- Garcia, J.: yes
- Garcia, L.: yes
- Garcia Hernandez: yes
- Gates: yes
- Gerdes: yes
- Geren: yes
- Gervin-Hawkins: yes
- González, J.: yes
- González, M.: yes
- Goodwin: yes
- Guerra: yes
- Guillen: yes
- Harless: yes
- Harris: yes
- Harris Davila: yes
- Hayes: yes
- Hefner: yes
- Hernandez: yes
- Hickland: yes
- Hinojosa: yes
- Holt: yes
- Howard: yes
- Hull: yes
- Hunter: yes
- Isaac: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Jones, J.: yes
- Jones, V.: yes
- Kerwin: yes
- King: yes
- Kitzman: yes
- LaHood: yes
- Lalani: yes
- Lambert: yes
- Landgraf: yes
- Leach: yes
- Little: yes
- Longoria: yes
- Lopez, J.: yes
- Louderback: yes
- Lujan: yes
- Luther: yes
- Manuel: yes
- Martinez: yes
- McLaughlin: yes
- McQueeney: yes
- Metcalf: yes
- Meyer: yes
- Meza: yes
- Moody: yes
- Morales, C.: yes
- Morales, E.: yes
- Morales Shaw: yes
- Morgan: yes
- Muñoz: yes
- Noble: yes
- Oliverson: yes
- Ordaz: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Paul: yes
- Perez, V.: yes
- Phelan: yes
- Pierson: yes
- Plesa: yes
- Raymond: yes
- Reynolds: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Rodríguez Ramos: yes
- Romero: yes
- Rose: yes
- Rosenthal: yes
- Schatzline: yes
- Schofield: yes
- Shaheen: yes
- Shofner: yes
- Simmons: yes
- Slawson: yes
- Smithee: yes
- Spiller: yes
- Talarico: yes
- Tepper: yes
- Thompson: yes
- Tinderholt: yes
- Toth: yes
- Troxclair: yes
- Turner: yes
- VanDeaver: yes
- Vasut: yes
- Villalobos: yes
- Virdell: yes
- Vo: yes
- Walle: yes
- Ward Johnson: yes
- Wharton: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Wu: yes
- Zwiener: yes
- Harrison: no
- Hopper: no
- Leo Wilson: no
- Lowe: no
- Money: no
- Olcott: no
- Schoolcraft: no
- Swanson: no
- Present: not voting
- Mr. Speaker(C): not voting
- Absent: absent
- Bowers: absent
- Lozan: absent
- Craddick: absent
- Lopez: absent
- R: absent
- Martinez Fischer: absent
- Orr: absent
- Perez: absent
- M: absent
passage
2025-05-27 · pass · 132-2
Member-level votes (154)
- Alders: yes
- Allen: yes
- Anchía: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Barry: yes
- Bell, C.: yes
- Bell, K.: yes
- Bernal: yes
- Bhojani: yes
- Bryant: yes
- Buckley: yes
- Bucy: yes
- Bumgarner: yes
- Button: yes
- Cain: yes
- Capriglione: yes
- Cole: yes
- Cook: yes
- Cunningham: yes
- Curry: yes
- Darby: yes
- Davis, A.: yes
- Davis, Y.: yes
- Dean: yes
- DeAyala: yes
- Dorazio: yes
- Dutton: yes
- Dyson: yes
- Fairly: yes
- Flores: yes
- Frank: yes
- Gámez: yes
- Garcia, J.: yes
- Garcia, L.: yes
- Garcia Hernandez: yes
- Gates: yes
- Gerdes: yes
- Geren: yes
- Gervin-Hawkins: yes
- González, J.: yes
- González, M.: yes
- Goodwin: yes
- Guillen: yes
- Harless: yes
- Harris(C): yes
- Harris Davila: yes
- Hayes: yes
- Hefner: yes
- Hernandez: yes
- Hickland: yes
- Hinojosa: yes
- Holt: yes
- Hopper: yes
- Howard: yes
- Hull: yes
- Hunter: yes
- Isaac: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Jones, V.: yes
- Kerwin: yes
- Kitzman: yes
- LaHood: yes
- Lalani: yes
- Lambert: yes
- Landgraf: yes
- Leach: yes
- Leo Wilson: yes
- Little: yes
- Lopez, J.: yes
- Lopez, R.: yes
- Louderback: yes
- Lowe: yes
- Lozano: yes
- Lujan: yes
- Luther: yes
- Manuel: yes
- Martinez: yes
- Fischer: yes
- McLaughlin: yes
- McQueeney: yes
- Metcalf: yes
- Meyer: yes
- Meza: yes
- Moody: yes
- Morales, E.: yes
- Morales Shaw: yes
- Morgan: yes
- Muñoz: yes
- Noble: yes
- Olcott: yes
- Oliverson: yes
- Orr: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Paul: yes
- Perez, M.: yes
- Perez, V.: yes
- Phelan: yes
- Pierson: yes
- Plesa: yes
- Raymond: yes
- Reynolds: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Rodríguez Ramos: yes
- Romero: yes
- Rose: yes
- Rosenthal: yes
- Schatzline: yes
- Schofield: yes
- Schoolcraft: yes
- Shaheen: yes
- Shofner: yes
- Simmons: yes
- Slawson: yes
- Smithee: yes
- Spiller: yes
- Swanson: yes
- Tepper: yes
- Thompson: yes
- Tinderholt: yes
- Toth: yes
- Troxclair: yes
- Turner: yes
- VanDeaver: yes
- Vasut: yes
- Villalobos: yes
- Virdell: yes
- Walle: yes
- Ward Johnson: yes
- Wharton: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Wu: yes
- Zwiener: yes
- Jones: no
- J: no
- Morales: no
- C: no
- Present: not voting
- Speaker: not voting
- Harriso: not voting
- Absent: absent
- Bowers: absent
- V: absent
- Bonnen: absent
- Campos: absent
- Canales: absent
- Collier: absent
- Cortez: absent
- Craddick: absent
- Guerra: absent
- King: absent
- Longoria: absent
- Money: absent
- Ordaz: absent
- Talarico: absent
passage
2025-05-31 · pass · 31-0
passage
2025-06-01 · pass · 136-2
Member-level votes (157)
- Alders: yes
- Anchía: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Barry: yes
- Bell, C.: yes
- Bell, K.: yes
- Bernal: yes
- Bhojani: yes
- Bonnen: yes
- Bowers: yes
- Bryant: yes
- Buckley: yes
- Bucy: yes
- Bumgarner: yes
- Button: yes
- Cain: yes
- Campos: yes
- Canales: yes
- Capriglione: yes
- Cole: yes
- Collier: yes
- Cook: yes
- Cortez: yes
- Craddick: yes
- Cunningham: yes
- Curry: yes
- Darby: yes
- Davis, A.: yes
- Dean: yes
- DeAyala: yes
- Dyson: yes
- Fairly: yes
- Flores: yes
- Frank: yes
- Gámez: yes
- Garcia, J.: yes
- Garcia Hernandez: yes
- Gates: yes
- Gerdes: yes
- Geren: yes
- Gervin-Hawkins: yes
- González, J.: yes
- González, M.: yes
- Goodwin: yes
- Guerra: yes
- Guillen: yes
- Harless: yes
- Harris Davila: yes
- Harrison: yes
- Hayes: yes
- Hefner: yes
- Hernandez: yes
- Hickland: yes
- Hinojosa: yes
- Holt: yes
- Hopper: yes
- Howard: yes
- Hull: yes
- Hunter: yes
- Isaac: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Jones, J.: yes
- Kerwin: yes
- King: yes
- Kitzman: yes
- LaHood: yes
- Lalani: yes
- Lambert: yes
- Landgraf: yes
- Leach: yes
- Leo Wilson: yes
- Little: yes
- Longoria: yes
- Lopez, R.: yes
- Lowe: yes
- Lujan: yes
- Luther: yes
- Manuel: yes
- Martinez: yes
- Fischer: yes
- McLaughlin: yes
- McQueeney: yes
- Metcalf: yes
- Meyer: yes
- Meza: yes
- Money: yes
- Moody: yes
- Morales, E.: yes
- Morgan: yes
- Muñoz: yes
- Noble: yes
- Olcott: yes
- Oliverson: yes
- Ordaz: yes
- Orr: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Paul: yes
- Perez, M.: yes
- Perez, V.: yes
- Phelan: yes
- Pierson: yes
- Plesa: yes
- Raymond: yes
- Reynolds: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Rodríguez Ramos: yes
- Romero: yes
- Rose: yes
- Rosenthal: yes
- Schatzline: yes
- Schofield: yes
- Schoolcraft: yes
- Shaheen: yes
- Shofner: yes
- Simmons: yes
- Slawson: yes
- Smithee: yes
- Spiller: yes
- Swanson: yes
- Talarico: yes
- Tepper: yes
- Thompson: yes
- Tinderholt: yes
- Toth: yes
- Troxclair: yes
- Turner: yes
- VanDeaver: yes
- Vasut: yes
- Villalobos: yes
- Virdell: yes
- Vo: yes
- Walle: yes
- Ward Johnson: yes
- Wharton: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Wu: yes
- Dutton: no
- Zwiene: no
- Present: not voting
- Mr. Speaker(C): not voting
- Absent: absent
- Allen: absent
- Garcia: absent
- L: absent
- Harris: absent
- Jones: absent
- V: absent
- Morales Sha: absent
- Davis: absent
- Y: absent
- Dorazio: absent
- Lopez: absent
- J: absent
- Louderback: absent
- Lozano: absent
- Morales: absent
- C: absent

Related bills

Companion bill: HB 5060

Official source

ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB02800_SB02899/SB 2878.xml

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