Bill Commons

TX SB 441

enacted

Relating to criminal and civil liability related to sexually explicit media and artificial intimate visual material; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty.

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

Quick answers

Did TX SB 441 pass?

Yes. TX SB 441 has been enacted into law as of 2025-06-20. Latest recorded action (2025-06-20): Effective on 9/1/25

What is TX SB 441 about?

TX SB 441 is a bill in the 89th Legislature (2025 Regular Session) titled “Relating to criminal and civil liability related to sexually explicit media and artificial intimate visual material; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty.”.

Who sponsors TX SB 441?

Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy", Lalani are the primary sponsors of TX SB 441, joined by 3 cosponsors.

Introduced
2024-11-21
Latest action
2025-06-20 — Effective on 9/1/25
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy"primary
  • Lalaniprimary
  • Creightoncosponsor
  • Parkercosponsor
  • Westcosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2024-11-21

    Received by the Secretary of the Senate

    filing,introduction

  2. 2024-11-21

    Filed

    filing

  3. 2025-02-03

    Read first time

    introduction,reading-1

  4. 2025-02-03

    Referred to Criminal Justice

    referral-committee

  5. 2025-03-04

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  6. 2025-03-04

    Considered in public hearing

  7. 2025-03-04

    Testimony taken in committee

  8. 2025-03-04

    Vote taken in committee

  9. 2025-03-06

    Reported favorably w/o amendments

    committee-passage-favorable

  10. 2025-03-06

    Committee report printed and distributed

  11. 2025-03-11

    Placed on intent calendar

  12. 2025-03-12

    Co-author authorized

  13. 2025-03-18

    Co-author authorized

  14. 2025-03-18

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  15. 2025-03-18

    Read 2nd time

    reading-2

  16. 2025-03-18

    Amendment(s) offered

    amendment-introduction

  17. 2025-03-18

    Amended

    amendment-passage

  18. 2025-03-18

    Vote recorded in Journal

  19. 2025-03-18

    Passed to engrossment as amended

    amendment-passage

  20. 2025-03-18

    Vote recorded in Journal

  21. 2025-03-18

    Three day rule suspended

  22. 2025-03-18

    Record vote

  23. 2025-03-18

    Read 3rd time

    reading-3

  24. 2025-03-18

    Passed

    passage

  25. 2025-03-18

    Record vote

  26. 2025-03-18

    Reported engrossed

  27. 2025-03-19

    Received from the Senate

    introduction

  28. 2025-04-22

    Read first time

    introduction,reading-1

  29. 2025-04-22

    Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

    referral-committee

  30. 2025-04-30

    Considered in public hearing

  31. 2025-04-30

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  32. 2025-04-30

    Left pending in committee

  33. 2025-05-14

    Considered in public hearing

  34. 2025-05-14

    Committee substitute considered in committee

    substitution

  35. 2025-05-14

    Reported favorably as substituted

    committee-passage-favorable

  36. 2025-05-20

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

    filing

  37. 2025-05-20

    Committee report distributed

  38. 2025-05-21

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  39. 2025-05-22

    Considered in Calendars

  40. 2025-05-24

    Placed on General State Calendar

  41. 2025-05-26

    Read 2nd time

    reading-2

  42. 2025-05-26

    Amended

    amendment-passage

  43. 2025-05-26

    Record vote

  44. 2025-05-26

    Amended

    amendment-passage

  45. 2025-05-26

    Record vote

  46. 2025-05-26

    Passed to 3rd reading as amended

    amendment-passage

  47. 2025-05-26

    Record vote

  48. 2025-05-26

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  49. 2025-05-27

    Read 3rd time

    reading-3

  50. 2025-05-27

    Amendment(s) offered

    amendment-introduction

  51. 2025-05-27

    Postponed

  52. 2025-05-27

    Laid out as postponed business

  53. 2025-05-27

    Amended

    amendment-passage

  54. 2025-05-27

    Record vote

  55. 2025-05-27

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  56. 2025-05-27

    Passed as amended

    amendment-passage,passage

  57. 2025-05-27

    Record vote

  58. 2025-05-27

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  59. 2025-05-27

    House passage as amended reported

    amendment-passage

  60. 2025-05-28

    House amendment(s) laid before the Senate

  61. 2025-05-28

    Read

  62. 2025-05-28

    Senate refuses to concur

  63. 2025-05-28

    Senate requests conference committee

  64. 2025-05-28

    Senate appoints conferees

  65. 2025-05-28

    Senate refuses to concur-reported

  66. 2025-05-28

    Senate requests conference committee-reported

  67. 2025-05-28

    Senate appoints conferees-reported

  68. 2025-05-30

    House grants request for conference committee

  69. 2025-05-30

    House appoints conferees

  70. 2025-05-30

    House grants request for conf comm-reported

  71. 2025-05-30

    House appoints conferees-reported

  72. 2025-05-30

    Conference committee report filed

    filing

  73. 2025-05-30

    Conf. Comm. Report distributed

  74. 2025-05-31

    Rules suspended

  75. 2025-05-31

    Record vote

  76. 2025-05-31

    Senate adopts conference committee report

    committee-passage-favorable

  77. 2025-05-31

    Record vote

  78. 2025-05-31

    House adopts conference committee report

    committee-passage-favorable

  79. 2025-05-31

    Record vote

  80. 2025-05-31

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  81. 2025-05-31

    Senate adopts conf. comm. report-reported

  82. 2025-05-31

    House adopts conf. comm. report-reported

  83. 2025-06-02

    House adopts resolution for tech. correction

  84. 2025-06-02

    Senate adopts resolution for tech. correction

  85. 2025-06-02

    Reported enrolled

    enrolled

  86. 2025-06-02

    Signed in the Senate

    passage

  87. 2025-06-02

    Signed in the House

    passage

  88. 2025-06-03

    Sent to the Governor

    executive-receipt

  89. 2025-06-20

    Signed by the Governor

    executive-signature

  90. 2025-06-20

    Effective on 9/1/25

    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 SB 441 be placed on its third reading and final passage.

    2025-03-18 · pass · 30-0

    Member-level votes (1)
    • Blanco: absent

  • passage to engrossment

    2025-03-18 · pass · 0-0

  • adoption of Floor Amendment No. 1

    2025-03-18 · pass · 0-0

  • passage

    2025-05-26 · pass · 143-0

    Member-level votes (153)
    • 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
    • Craddick: yes
    • Cunningham: yes
    • Curry: yes
    • Darby: 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
    • 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
    • Lambert: yes
    • Leach: yes
    • Leo Wilson: 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Zwiener: yes
    • Present: not voting
    • Speaker: not voting
    • Landgraf(C: not voting
    • Absent: absent
    • Bowers: absent
    • Davis: absent
    • A: absent
    • Little: absent
    • McLaughlin: absent
    • Simmon: absent

  • passage

    2025-05-27 · pass · 104-36

    Member-level votes (152)
    • Allen: yes
    • Anchía: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Bell, K.: yes
    • Bernal: yes
    • Bhojani: yes
    • Bryant: yes
    • Buckley: yes
    • Bucy: yes
    • Button: yes
    • Campos: yes
    • Capriglione: yes
    • Cole: yes
    • Collier: yes
    • Craddick: 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
    • Geren: yes
    • Gervin-Hawkins: yes
    • González, J.: yes
    • González, M.: yes
    • Goodwin: yes
    • Guerra: yes
    • Guillen: yes
    • Harless: yes
    • Harris: yes
    • Harrison: yes
    • Hernandez: yes
    • Hickland: yes
    • Hinojosa: yes
    • Howard: yes
    • Hunter: yes
    • Johnson: yes
    • Jones, J.: yes
    • Jones, V.: yes
    • King: yes
    • Kitzman: yes
    • Lalani: yes
    • Lambert: yes
    • Landgraf: yes
    • Leach: yes
    • Longoria: yes
    • Lopez, J.: yes
    • Lopez, R.: yes
    • Louderback: yes
    • Lozano: yes
    • Lujan: yes
    • Martinez: yes
    • Fischer: yes
    • McLaughlin: yes
    • McQueeney: yes
    • Meyer: yes
    • Meza: yes
    • Moody: yes
    • Morales, C.: yes
    • Morales, E.: yes
    • Morales Shaw: yes
    • Muñoz: yes
    • Noble: yes
    • Ordaz: yes
    • Orr: yes
    • Paul: yes
    • Perez, M.: yes
    • Perez, V.: yes
    • Phelan: yes
    • Raymond: yes
    • Reynolds: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Rodríguez Ramos: yes
    • Romero: yes
    • Rose: yes
    • Rosenthal: yes
    • Schofield: yes
    • Schoolcraft: yes
    • Simmons: yes
    • Smithee: yes
    • Spiller: yes
    • Talarico: yes
    • Tepper: yes
    • Thompson: yes
    • Turner: yes
    • VanDeaver: yes
    • Villalobos: yes
    • Walle: yes
    • Ward Johnson: yes
    • Wharton: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Wu: yes
    • Zwiener: yes
    • Alders: no
    • Barry: no
    • Bell, C.: no
    • Bonnen: no
    • Bumgarner: no
    • Cain: no
    • Cook: no
    • Cunningham: no
    • Gerdes: no
    • Harris Davila: no
    • Hayes: no
    • Hefner: no
    • Holt: no
    • Hopper: no
    • Hull: no
    • Isaac: no
    • Kerwin: no
    • LaHood: no
    • Leo Wilson: no
    • Little: no
    • Lowe: no
    • Luther: no
    • Metcalf: no
    • Money: no
    • Morgan: no
    • Olcott: no
    • Oliverson: no
    • Pierson: no
    • Shofner: no
    • Slawson: no
    • Swanson: no
    • Tinderholt: no
    • Toth: no
    • Troxclair: no
    • Vasut: no
    • Virdell: no
    • Present: not voting
    • Mr. Speaker(C): not voting
    • Absent: absent
    • Bowers: absent
    • Canales: absent
    • V: absent
    • Cortez: absent
    • Manuel: absent
    • Patterson: absent
    • Plesa: absent
    • Schatzline: absent
    • Shahee: absent

  • passage

    2025-05-31 · pass · 31-0

    Member-level votes (151)
    • 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
    • Button: yes
    • Canales: yes
    • Capriglione: yes
    • Cole: yes
    • Collier: yes
    • Cortez: yes
    • Darby: yes
    • Davis, A.: yes
    • Dean: yes
    • Dorazio: yes
    • Dutton: yes
    • Dyson: yes
    • Fairly: yes
    • Flores: yes
    • Frank: yes
    • Gámez: yes
    • Garcia Hernandez: yes
    • Gates: yes
    • González, J.: yes
    • González, M.: yes
    • Goodwin: yes
    • Guerra: yes
    • Guillen: yes
    • Hayes: yes
    • Hernandez: yes
    • Howard: yes
    • Johnson: yes
    • Jones, J.: yes
    • King: yes
    • Kitzman: yes
    • Lalani: yes
    • Lambert: yes
    • Landgraf: yes
    • Longoria: yes
    • Lopez, J.: yes
    • Lopez, R.: yes
    • Lujan: yes
    • Luther: yes
    • Manuel: yes
    • Martinez: yes
    • Fischer: yes
    • McLaughlin: yes
    • Metcalf: yes
    • Meyer: yes
    • Meza: yes
    • Moody: yes
    • Morales, E.: yes
    • Morgan: yes
    • Muñoz: yes
    • Noble: yes
    • Oliverson: yes
    • Ordaz: yes
    • Orr: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Paul: yes
    • Perez, M.: yes
    • Perez, V.: yes
    • Plesa: yes
    • Raymond: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Rodríguez Ramos: yes
    • Romero: yes
    • Rosenthal: yes
    • Schofield: yes
    • Shaheen: yes
    • Simmons: yes
    • Smithee: yes
    • Spiller: yes
    • Talarico: yes
    • Tepper: yes
    • Thompson: yes
    • Troxclair: yes
    • Turner: yes
    • VanDeaver: yes
    • Virdell: yes
    • Vo: yes
    • Wu: yes
    • Zwiener: yes
    • Alders: no
    • Bumgarner: no
    • Cain: no
    • Cook: no
    • Craddick: no
    • Curry: no
    • DeAyala: no
    • Harris Davila: no
    • Harrison: no
    • Hefner: no
    • Hickland: no
    • Hopper: no
    • Hull: no
    • Isaac: no
    • LaHood: no
    • Leo Wilson: no
    • Little: no
    • Louderback: no
    • Lowe: no
    • Lozano: no
    • McQueeney: no
    • Money: no
    • Olcott: no
    • Pierson: no
    • Schoolcraft: no
    • Shofner: no
    • Slawson: no
    • Swanson: no
    • Toth: no
    • Vasut: no
    • Villalobos: no
    • Wharton: no
    • Wilson: no
    • Present: not voting
    • Speaker: not voting
    • Geren(C: not voting
    • Allen: absent
    • Cunningham: absent
    • Garcia, L.: absent
    • Harless: absent
    • Harris: absent
    • Holt: absent
    • Morales, C.: absent
    • Morales Shaw: absent
    • Phelan: absent
    • Rose: absent
    • Schatzline: absent
    • Tinderholt: absent
    • Walle: absent
    • Ward Johnson: absent
    • Campos: absent
    • Davis, Y.: absent
    • Garcia, J.: absent
    • Gerdes: absent
    • Gervin-Hawkins: absent
    • Hinojosa: absent
    • Hunter: absent
    • Jones, V.: absent
    • Kerwin: absent
    • Leach: absent
    • Reynolds: absent

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Official source

ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00400_SB00499/SB 441.xml

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