TX SB 614
vetoedRelating to the authority of the Texas Forensic Science Commission to review and refer certain cases to the office of capital and forensic writs.
Texas · 89th Legislature (2025 Regular Session) · upper
- Introduced
- 2024-12-13
- Status date
- —
- Latest action
- 2025-06-22 — Vetoed by the Governor
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
- —
Subjects
Sponsors
- Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy"primary
- Leachprimary
- Blancocosponsor
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
2024-12-13
Received by the Secretary of the Senate
filing,introduction
2024-12-13
Filed
filing
2025-02-03
Read first time
introduction,reading-1
2025-02-03
Referred to Criminal Justice
referral-committee
2025-04-29
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
2025-04-29
Considered in public hearing
2025-04-29
Testimony taken in committee
2025-04-29
Vote taken in committee
2025-05-05
Reported favorably as substituted
committee-passage-favorable
2025-05-05
Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
2025-05-05
Committee report printed and distributed
2025-05-06
Placed on intent calendar
2025-05-07
Co-author authorized
2025-05-07
Rules suspended-Regular order of business
2025-05-07
Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
reading-2
2025-05-07
Vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-07
Three day rule suspended
2025-05-07
Record vote
2025-05-07
Read 3rd time
reading-3
2025-05-07
Passed
passage
2025-05-07
Record vote
2025-05-07
Reported engrossed
2025-05-07
Received from the Senate
introduction
2025-05-08
Read first time
introduction,reading-1
2025-05-08
Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence
referral-committee
2025-05-12
Posting rule suspended
2025-05-13
Considered in public hearing
2025-05-13
Left pending in committee
2025-05-15
Considered in formal meeting
2025-05-15
Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-05-19
Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
filing
2025-05-19
Committee report distributed
2025-05-20
Committee report sent to Calendars
2025-05-22
Considered in Calendars
2025-05-24
Placed on General State Calendar
2025-05-27
Read 2nd time
reading-2
2025-05-27
Passed to 3rd reading
2025-05-27
Record vote
2025-05-27
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-28
Read 3rd time
reading-3
2025-05-28
Passed
passage
2025-05-28
Record vote
2025-05-28
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-28
House passage reported
passage
2025-05-28
Reported enrolled
enrolled
2025-05-30
Signed in the Senate
passage
2025-06-01
Signed in the House
passage
2025-06-01
Sent to the Governor
executive-receipt
2025-06-22
Vetoed by the Governor
executive-veto
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Votes
Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that CSSB 614 be placed on its third reading and final passage.
2025-05-07 · pass · 31-0
passage
2025-05-27 · pass · 133-10
Member-level votes (152)
- Alders: yes
- Allen: 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
- Campos: yes
- Capriglione: yes
- Cole: yes
- Collier: yes
- Cook: yes
- Cortez: yes
- Craddick: 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
- Harrison: 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
- King: yes
- Kitzman: yes
- LaHood: yes
- Lalani: yes
- Lambert: yes
- Landgraf: yes
- Leach: yes
- Little: yes
- Longoria: yes
- Lopez, J.: yes
- Lopez, R.: yes
- Louderback: yes
- Lozano: yes
- Lujan: yes
- Manuel: yes
- Martinez: yes
- Fischer: yes
- McLaughlin: yes
- McQueeney: yes
- Metcalf: yes
- Meyer: yes
- Meza: yes
- Money: yes
- Moody: yes
- Morales, C.: yes
- Morales, E.: yes
- Morales Shaw: yes
- Morgan: yes
- Muñoz: yes
- Noble: yes
- Oliverson: yes
- Ordaz: yes
- Orr: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Paul: yes
- Perez, M.: yes
- Perez, V.: yes
- Phelan: yes
- Plesa: yes
- Raymond: yes
- Reynolds: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Rodríguez Ramos: yes
- Romero: yes
- Rose: yes
- Rosenthal: 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
- Troxclair: yes
- Turner: yes
- VanDeaver: yes
- Villalobos: yes
- Virdell: yes
- Walle: yes
- Ward Johnson: yes
- Wharton: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Wu: yes
- Zwiener: yes
- Cain: no
- Hopper: no
- Kerwin: no
- Leo Wilson: no
- Lowe: no
- Olcott: no
- Pierson: no
- Schatzline: no
- Tinderholt: no
- Toth: no
- Present: not voting
- Speaker: not voting
- Vasut(C: not voting
- Absent: absent
- Anchía: absent
- Bowers: absent
- Canales: absent
- V: absent
- Luther: absent
passage
2025-05-28 · pass · 128-12
Member-level votes (152)
- Alders: yes
- Allen: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Barry: yes
- Bell, C.: yes
- Bell, K.: yes
- Bernal: yes
- Bhojani: yes
- Bonnen: yes
- Bowers: yes
- Bryant: yes
- Buckley: 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
- Davis, Y.: yes
- Dean: yes
- DeAyala: yes
- Dorazio: yes
- Dutton: 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 Davila: yes
- Hayes: yes
- Hefner: yes
- Hernandez: yes
- Hickland: 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
- Lopez, J.: yes
- Lopez, R.: yes
- Louderback: 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, C.: yes
- Morales, E.: yes
- Morales Shaw: yes
- Morgan: yes
- Muñoz: yes
- Noble: 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
- Schoolcraft: yes
- Shaheen: yes
- Shofner: yes
- Simmons: yes
- Spiller: yes
- Swanson: yes
- Tepper: yes
- Thompson: yes
- Tinderholt: yes
- Turner: yes
- VanDeaver: yes
- Villalobos: yes
- Virdell: yes
- Vo: yes
- Walle: yes
- Ward Johnson: yes
- Wharton: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Wu: yes
- Zwiener: yes
- Dyson: no
- Harrison: no
- Hopper: no
- Leo Wilson: no
- Lowe: no
- Money: no
- Olcott: no
- Schatzline: no
- Schofield: no
- Slawson: no
- Toth: no
- Troxclair: no
- Present: not voting
- Speaker: not voting
- Vasut(C: not voting
- Absent: absent
- Anchía: absent
- Guerra: absent
- Harris: absent
- Hinojosa: absent
- Longoria: absent
- Talaric: absent
- Bucy: absent
- Smithe: absent
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