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Senate passes bill to expand bail reporting, clarify magistrate duties and restrict some personal bonds
Summary
The Texas Senate passed the committee substitute to Senate Bill 9 on Feb. 19 by a 28–2 vote. The measure adds reporting requirements, directs more cases to elected judges, expands the list of offenses not eligible for personal bonds, and increases transparency for charitable bail organizations.
The Texas Senate on Feb. 19 passed the committee substitute to Senate Bill 9, 28–2, after floor debate and adoption of two floor amendments. The bill, as amended, makes multiple changes to pretrial procedures, reporting systems and who may set initial bonds in certain serious cases.
Senator Huffman, the bill’s author, said the measure builds on SB 6 (2021) and aims to give judges and prosecutors better information to protect public safety. "We found out when we started digging into this that our different systems were not talking to each other," Huffman said, describing efforts to add data to the state Public Safety Report System and to allow the Office of…
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