2025 bills / H.B. 226
H.B. 226 Criminal Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
A county sheriff or the Department of Corrections would have to notify and coordinate with federal immigration authorities before releasing certain people in the country illegally after their sentences. The bill also sets one year as the sentence for certain class A misdemeanors and presumes people not lawfully in the U.S. are flight risks for pretrial release.
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Official description
- requires a county sheriff to notify and coordinate with the relevant federal immigration authority when preparing to release from the county jail an individual who:
- is being released after serving the individual's jail sentence for certain class A misdemeanors or a felony
- is unlawfully present in the United States
- requires the Department of Corrections to notify and coordinate with the relevant federal immigration authority when preparing to release an inmate who:
- is being released after serving a term of imprisonment for a felony
- is unlawfully present in the United States
- amends the sentence of imprisonment for a class A misdemeanor to one year for certain offenses
- amends certain pretrial release provisions to add a rebuttable presumption that an individual is a flight risk if the individual is not lawfully present in the United States
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 226 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 226 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 10 yes, 0 no, 1 absentHouse Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 3, 2025Who voted how
- 9 yes, 1 no, 1 absentHouse Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 3, 2025Who voted how
- 62 yes, 9 no, 4 absentFinal House vote · Feb 12, 2025Who voted how
- 8 yes, 0 no, 1 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 7 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 3 yes, 4 no, 2 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: Senate vote, which failed · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 3 yes, 0 no, 6 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
- 6 yes, 3 noSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
- 21 yes, 8 noFinal Senate vote · Mar 6, 2025Who voted how
- 56 yes, 11 no, 8 absentHouse vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Mar 6, 2025Who voted how
Hearings and debates
- Feb 3, 2025 House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee▶ Watch
- Feb 25, 2025 Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee▶ Watch
- Feb 28, 2025 Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee▶ Watch
- Jun 3, 2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- Jun 3, 2025 House floor debate▶ Watch
- Nov 2, 2025 House floor debate▶ Watch
- Dec 2, 2025 House floor debate▶ Watch