Bill Commons

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

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Quick answers

Did TX SB 2878 pass?

No. TX SB 2878 passed the legislature but was vetoed. 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
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Hughesprimary
  • Leachprimary
  • Morales, Eddieprimary
  • Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy"cosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2025-06-22

    Vetoed by the Governor

    executive-veto

  2. 2025-06-03

    Sent to the Governor

    executive-receipt

  3. 2025-06-02

    Signed in the House

    passage

  4. 2025-06-02

    Signed in the Senate

    passage

  5. 2025-06-02

    Reported enrolled

    enrolled

  6. 2025-06-01

    House adopts conf. comm. report-reported

  7. 2025-06-01

    Record vote

  8. 2025-06-01

    House adopts conference committee report

    committee-passage-favorable

  9. 2025-05-31

    Senate adopts conf. comm. report-reported

  10. 2025-05-31

    Record vote

  11. 2025-05-31

    Senate adopts conference committee report

    committee-passage-favorable

  12. 2025-05-31

    Co-author authorized

  13. 2025-05-30

    Conf. Comm. Report distributed

  14. 2025-05-30

    Conference committee report filed

    filing

  15. 2025-05-29

    House appoints conferees-reported

  16. 2025-05-29

    House grants request for conf comm-reported

  17. 2025-05-29

    House appoints conferees

  18. 2025-05-29

    House grants request for conference committee

  19. 2025-05-28

    Senate appoints conferees-reported

  20. 2025-05-28

    Senate requests conference committee-reported

  21. 2025-05-28

    Senate refuses to concur-reported

  22. 2025-05-28

    Senate appoints conferees

  23. 2025-05-28

    Senate requests conference committee

  24. 2025-05-28

    Senate refuses to concur

  25. 2025-05-28

    Read

  26. 2025-05-28

    House amendment(s) laid before the Senate

  27. 2025-05-27

    House passage as amended reported

    amendment-passage

  28. 2025-05-27

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  29. 2025-05-27

    Record vote

  30. 2025-05-27

    Passed as amended

    amendment-passage,passage

  31. 2025-05-27

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  32. 2025-05-27

    Record vote

  33. 2025-05-27

    Amended

    amendment-passage

  34. 2025-05-27

    Read 3rd time

    reading-3

  35. 2025-05-26

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  36. 2025-05-26

    Record vote

  37. 2025-05-26

    Passed to 3rd reading as amended

    amendment-passage

  38. 2025-05-26

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  39. 2025-05-26

    Record vote

  40. 2025-05-26

    Amended

    amendment-passage

  41. 2025-05-26

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  42. 2025-05-26

    Record vote

  43. 2025-05-26

    Amended

    amendment-passage

  44. 2025-05-26

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  45. 2025-05-26

    Record vote

  46. 2025-05-26

    Amended

    amendment-passage

  47. 2025-05-26

    Amendment withdrawn

    amendment-withdrawal,withdrawal

  48. 2025-05-26

    Laid out as postponed business

  49. 2025-05-26

    Postponed

  50. 2025-05-26

    Laid out as postponed business

  51. 2025-05-26

    Postponed

  52. 2025-05-26

    Read 2nd time

    reading-2

  53. 2025-05-26

    Placed on Major State Calendar

  54. 2025-05-24

    Considered in Calendars

  55. 2025-05-24

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  56. 2025-05-24

    Committee report distributed

  57. 2025-05-24

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

    filing

  58. 2025-05-21

    Reported favorably as substituted

    committee-passage-favorable

  59. 2025-05-21

    Committee substitute considered in committee

    substitution

  60. 2025-05-21

    Considered in public hearing

  61. 2025-05-14

    Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

    referral-committee

  62. 2025-05-14

    Read first time

    introduction,reading-1

  63. 2025-05-12

    Received from the Senate

    introduction

  64. 2025-05-12

    Reported engrossed

  65. 2025-05-12

    Statement(s) submitted

  66. 2025-05-12

    Record vote

  67. 2025-05-12

    Passed

    passage

  68. 2025-05-12

    Read 3rd time

    reading-3

  69. 2025-05-12

    Record vote

  70. 2025-05-12

    Three day rule suspended

  71. 2025-05-12

    Vote recorded in Journal

  72. 2025-05-12

    Passed to engrossment as amended

    amendment-passage

  73. 2025-05-12

    Vote recorded in Journal

  74. 2025-05-12

    Amended

    amendment-passage

  75. 2025-05-12

    Amendment(s) offered

    amendment-introduction

  76. 2025-05-12

    Vote recorded in Journal

  77. 2025-05-12

    Amended

    amendment-passage

  78. 2025-05-12

    Amendment(s) offered

    amendment-introduction

  79. 2025-05-12

    Read 2nd time

    reading-2

  80. 2025-05-12

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  81. 2025-05-09

    Placed on intent calendar

  82. 2025-05-08

    Committee report printed and distributed

  83. 2025-05-07

    Recommended for local & uncontested calendar

  84. 2025-05-07

    Reported favorably as substituted

    committee-passage-favorable

  85. 2025-04-29

    Vote taken in committee

  86. 2025-04-29

    Considered in public hearing

  87. 2025-04-16

    Left pending in committee

  88. 2025-04-16

    Considered in public hearing

  89. 2025-04-16

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  90. 2025-04-07

    Referred to Jurisprudence

    referral-committee

  91. 2025-04-07

    Read first time

    introduction,reading-1

  92. 2025-03-14

    Filed

    filing

  93. 2025-03-14

    Received by the Secretary of the Senate

    filing,introduction

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 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

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Official source

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