Aggravating Factors for Capital Felonies
Summary
Aggravating Factors for Capital Felonies; Adds as an aggravating factor that capital felony was committed against head of state, or in an attempt to commit such crime capital felony was committed against another individual.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Apr 2025
House Passage
Apr 2025
Senate Passage
Apr 2025
Signed into Law
Jun 2025
Introduced Feb 17, 2025
Signed Jun 13, 2025
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The bill text was finalized and enrolled for signature, changing the status from 'Filed' to 'Enrolled' and updating the page footer to reflect the enrolled version. No substantive policy changes were made to the bill's content regarding aggravating factors for capital felonies; the modifications are purely administrative and formatting-related.
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Header changed from 'HB 653 Filed' to 'ENROLLED HB 653', indicating the bill has been approved by both chambers and is ready for the Governor's signature.
Page footer updated from 'hb653-00' to 'hb653 -00-er' to denote the enrolled version of the document.
Floor votes · Senate Apr 30, 2025 · House Apr 24, 2025
How they voted
25–12
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 38
Apr 30, 2025
D
Democratic10
90% Nay
I
Independent1
100% Nay
R
Republican27
92% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
35
Key actions
11
Committee
11
Jun 13, 2025
Signed into law
Approved by Governor
legislature
Apr 30, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed; YEAS 25 NAYS 12
upper
Apr 24, 2025
Committee
Referred to Fiscal Policy
upper
Apr 24, 2025
Lower · Passed
Passed; YEAS 99, NAYS 13
lower
Mar 26, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported out of Judiciary Committee
lower
Mar 26, 2025
Lower · Passed
Favorable by Judiciary Committee
lower
Mar 24, 2025
Lower · Passed
Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
lower
Mar 12, 2025
Lower · Passed
Now in Judiciary Committee
lower
Mar 12, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported out of Criminal Justice Subcommittee
lower
Mar 12, 2025
Lower · Passed
Favorable by Criminal Justice Subcommittee
lower
Mar 10, 2025
Lower · Passed
Added to Criminal Justice Subcommittee agenda
lower
Feb 26, 2025
Lower · Passed
Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
lower
Feb 26, 2025
Committee
Referred to Judiciary Committee
lower
Feb 26, 2025
Committee
Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee
lower
2 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Danny Nix
RRepublican
P
Jeff Holcomb
RRepublican
Co
Tom Fabricio
RRepublican
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