SB 1386 Texas Senate · 89th Legislature (2025)

Relating to testimony or the production of evidence before a house of the legislature or a legislative committee.

SB 1386 removes a witness's right to refuse testifying before Texas legislative committees or houses of the legislature on the grounds that testimony might "disgrace" them or make them "infamous." It requires witnesses to testify or produce evidence even if they claim it could incriminate them, but protects them from criminal prosecution (except for perjury) using compelled testimony. The bill also guarantees witnesses the right to have legal counsel present during testimony. This directly affects individuals called to testify before Texas legislative committees or state legislative bodies.
Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Apr 2025
Senate Passage
Apr 2025
House Passage
Governor
Introduced Feb 19, 2025 Last action Apr 22, 2025
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Introduced Engrossed · 2 edits · Apr 7, 2025
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The bill text was reformatted and cleaned up, removing duplicate headers and page numbers while preserving the original legislative content. The substantive legal provisions regarding witness testimony, immunity, and counsel rights remain unchanged.
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Removed duplicate header information and page numbers that appeared in the original draft version.

Consolidated formatting to create a clean, standard bill text layout without extraneous markup artifacts.

Floor votes

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This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
27
Key actions
6
Committee
7
Apr 22, 2025
Committee
Referred to House Administration
lower
Apr 22, 2025
Introduced
Read first time
lower
Apr 8, 2025
Introduced
Received from the Senate
lower
Apr 7, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed
upper
Apr 1, 2025
Upper · Passed
Committee report printed and distributed
upper
Apr 1, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably as substituted
upper
Mar 27, 2025
Upper · Passed
Vote taken in committee
upper
Mar 20, 2025
Upper · Passed
Left pending in committee
upper
Mar 13, 2025
Upper · Passed
No action taken in committee
upper
Mar 6, 2025
Committee
Referred to State Affairs
upper
Mar 6, 2025
Introduced
Read first time
upper
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor

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