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TX SB 1646

enacted

Relating to criminal conduct involving the theft, damage, or destruction of copper or brass or involving the unauthorized possession of certain copper or brass material, to transactions of metal recycling entities involving certain copper or brass material, to training on identifying certain copper or brass material, and to studying the effect of certain regulations on incidents of theft of copper or brass material; creating criminal offenses; increasing criminal penalties; providing an administrative penalty.

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

Quick answers

Did TX SB 1646 pass?

Yes. TX SB 1646 has been enacted into law as of 2025-05-30. Latest recorded action (2025-05-30): Effective immediately

What is TX SB 1646 about?

TX SB 1646 is a bill in the 89th Legislature (2025 Regular Session) titled “Relating to criminal conduct involving the theft, damage, or destruction of copper or brass or involving the unauthorized possession of certain copper or brass material, to transactions of metal recycling entities involving certain copper or brass material, to training on identifying certain copper or brass material, and to studying the effect of certain regulations on incidents of theft of copper or brass material; creating criminal offenses; increasing criminal penalties; providing an administrative penalty.”.

Who sponsors TX SB 1646?

Patterson, Lopez, Ray, King and 3 others are the primary sponsors of TX SB 1646, joined by 2 cosponsors.

Introduced
2025-02-26
Latest action
2025-05-30 — Effective immediately
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Pattersonprimary
  • Lopez, Rayprimary
  • Kingprimary
  • Hefnerprimary
  • Roseprimary
  • Gerenprimary
  • Florescosponsor
  • Hagenbuchcosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-26

    Received by the Secretary of the Senate

    filing,introduction

  2. 2025-02-26

    Filed

    filing

  3. 2025-03-11

    Read first time

    introduction,reading-1

  4. 2025-03-11

    Referred to Criminal Justice

    referral-committee

  5. 2025-03-12

    Co-author authorized

  6. 2025-03-19

    Co-author authorized

  7. 2025-04-08

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  8. 2025-04-08

    Considered in public hearing

  9. 2025-04-08

    Testimony taken in committee

  10. 2025-04-08

    Vote taken in committee

  11. 2025-04-10

    Reported favorably as substituted

    committee-passage-favorable

  12. 2025-04-10

    Recommended for local & uncontested calendar

  13. 2025-04-10

    Committee report printed and distributed

  14. 2025-04-14

    Placed on intent calendar

  15. 2025-04-16

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  16. 2025-04-16

    Vote recorded in Journal

  17. 2025-04-16

    Read 2nd time

    reading-2

  18. 2025-04-16

    Amendment(s) offered

    amendment-introduction

  19. 2025-04-16

    Amended

    amendment-passage

  20. 2025-04-16

    Vote recorded in Journal

  21. 2025-04-16

    Passed to engrossment as amended

    amendment-passage

  22. 2025-04-16

    Vote recorded in Journal

  23. 2025-04-16

    Three day rule suspended

  24. 2025-04-16

    Record vote

  25. 2025-04-16

    Read 3rd time

    reading-3

  26. 2025-04-16

    Passed

    passage

  27. 2025-04-16

    Record vote

  28. 2025-04-16

    Reported engrossed

  29. 2025-04-17

    Received from the Senate

    introduction

  30. 2025-04-22

    Read first time

    introduction,reading-1

  31. 2025-04-22

    Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs

    referral-committee

  32. 2025-05-09

    Considered in formal meeting

  33. 2025-05-09

    Committee substitute considered in committee

    substitution

  34. 2025-05-09

    Reported favorably as substituted

    committee-passage-favorable

  35. 2025-05-14

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

    filing

  36. 2025-05-14

    Committee report distributed

  37. 2025-05-14

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  38. 2025-05-14

    Laid out in lieu of companion

  39. 2025-05-14

    Read 2nd time

    reading-2

  40. 2025-05-14

    Amended

    amendment-passage

  41. 2025-05-14

    Passed to 3rd reading as amended

    amendment-passage

  42. 2025-05-14

    Record vote

  43. 2025-05-14

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  44. 2025-05-15

    Read 3rd time

    reading-3

  45. 2025-05-15

    Passed

    passage

  46. 2025-05-15

    Record vote

  47. 2025-05-15

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  48. 2025-05-15

    House passage as amended reported

    amendment-passage

  49. 2025-05-20

    House amendment(s) laid before the Senate

  50. 2025-05-20

    Read

  51. 2025-05-20

    Senate concurs in House amendment(s)

  52. 2025-05-20

    Record vote

  53. 2025-05-20

    Reported enrolled

    enrolled

  54. 2025-05-21

    Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported

  55. 2025-05-21

    Signed in the Senate

    passage

  56. 2025-05-21

    Signed in the House

    passage

  57. 2025-05-21

    Sent to the Governor

    executive-receipt

  58. 2025-05-30

    Signed by the Governor

    executive-signature

  59. 2025-05-30

    Effective immediately

    became-law

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that CSSB 1646 be placed on its third reading and final passage.

    2025-04-16 · pass · 29-2

    Member-level votes (31)
    • Alvarado: yes
    • Bettencourt: yes
    • Blanco: yes
    • Campbell: yes
    • Cook: yes
    • Creighton: yes
    • Flores: yes
    • Gutierrez: yes
    • Hagenbuch: yes
    • Hall: yes
    • Hancock: yes
    • A. Hinojosa: yes
    • J. Hinojosa: yes
    • Huffman: yes
    • Hughes: yes
    • Johnson: yes
    • King: yes
    • Kolkhorst: yes
    • Menéndez: yes
    • Middleton: yes
    • Miles: yes
    • Nichols: yes
    • Parker: yes
    • Paxton: yes
    • Perry: yes
    • Schwertner: yes
    • Sparks: yes
    • West: yes
    • Zaffirini: yes
    • Birdwell: no
    • Eckhardt: no

  • passage

    2025-04-16 · pass · 0-0

  • passage to engrossment

    2025-04-16 · pass · 0-0

  • passage

    2025-05-14 · pass · 137-0

    Member-level votes (152)
    • Alders: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Anchía: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Barry: yes
    • Bell, C.: yes
    • Bell, K.: yes
    • Bernal: yes
    • Bhojani: yes
    • Bonnen: yes
    • Bowers: yes
    • Bryant: yes
    • Bucy: yes
    • Bumgarner: yes
    • Button: yes
    • Cain: 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
    • 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
    • Hopper: yes
    • Howard: yes
    • Hull: yes
    • Hunter: yes
    • Isaac: yes
    • Jones, J.: yes
    • Jones, V.: yes
    • Kerwin: yes
    • King: yes
    • Kitzman: yes
    • LaHood: yes
    • Lalani: yes
    • Landgraf: yes
    • Leach: yes
    • Leo Wilson: yes
    • Little: yes
    • Longoria: yes
    • Lopez, J.: yes
    • Lopez, R.: yes
    • Louderback: yes
    • Lowe: yes
    • Lozano: yes
    • Lujan: yes
    • Luther: 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
    • Morgan: yes
    • Muñoz: yes
    • Noble: yes
    • Oliverson: yes
    • Ordaz: yes
    • Orr: yes
    • Patterson: 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
    • Vo: yes
    • Walle: yes
    • Ward Johnson: yes
    • Wharton: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Wu: yes
    • Zwiener: yes
    • Present: not voting
    • Speaker: not voting
    • Harris(C): not voting
    • Morales Shaw: not voting
    • Virdel: not voting
    • Absent: absent
    • Buckley: absent
    • Holt: absent
    • Johnson: absent
    • Lambert: absent
    • Olcott: absent
    • Pau: absent
    • Canales: absent
    • Gervin-Hawkins: absent
    • Manue: absent

  • passage

    2025-05-15 · pass · 138-1

    Member-level votes (153)
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Hopper: 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
    • Landgraf: yes
    • Leach: yes
    • Leo Wilson: yes
    • Little: yes
    • Longoria: 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
    • Money: yes
    • Moody: yes
    • Morales, C.: yes
    • Morales, E.: yes
    • Morgan: yes
    • Muñoz: yes
    • Noble: yes
    • Olcott: yes
    • Ordaz: yes
    • Orr: yes
    • Patterson: 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
    • Slawson: yes
    • Smithee: yes
    • Spiller: yes
    • Swanson: yes
    • Talarico: yes
    • Tepper: yes
    • Thompson: yes
    • Tinderholt: yes
    • Toth: yes
    • Troxclair: yes
    • Turner: yes
    • VanDeaver: yes
    • Villalobos: yes
    • Virdell: yes
    • Vo: yes
    • Walle: yes
    • Ward Johnson: yes
    • Wharton: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Wu: yes
    • Zwiener: no
    • Present: not voting
    • Speaker: not voting
    • Morales Shaw: not voting
    • Vasut(C: not voting
    • Absent: absent
    • Dutton: absent
    • Gervin-Hawkins: absent
    • Lambert: absent
    • Pau: absent
    • Excused: absent
    • Bonnen: absent
    • Bowers: absent
    • Oliverson: absent
    • Simmon: absent

  • passage

    2025-05-20 · pass · 29-2

    Member-level votes (31)
    • Alvarado: yes
    • Bettencourt: yes
    • Blanco: yes
    • Campbell: yes
    • Cook: yes
    • Creighton: yes
    • Flores: yes
    • Gutierrez: yes
    • Hagenbuch: yes
    • Hall: yes
    • Hancock: yes
    • A. Hinojosa: yes
    • J. Hinojosa: yes
    • Huffman: yes
    • Hughes: yes
    • Johnson: yes
    • King: yes
    • Kolkhorst: yes
    • Menéndez: yes
    • Middleton: yes
    • Miles: yes
    • Nichols: yes
    • Parker: yes
    • Paxton: yes
    • Perry: yes
    • Schwertner: yes
    • Sparks: yes
    • West: yes
    • Zaffirini: yes
    • Birdwell: no
    • Eckhardt: no

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ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB01600_SB01699/SB 1646.xml

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