THE POLICY LANDSCAPE
Rights, restrictions & the places between.
TX HB437 (2025)
Relating to the placement of children in a detention or correctional facility according to biological sex.
Anti-LGBTQ+
- Jurisdiction
- Texas
- Session
- 89th Legislature Regular Session
- Stage reported
- Introduced Session adjourned
- First recorded action
- Latest action
- : Committee report sent to Calendars
- Record retrieved
Bill types
As labelled in the project's tracker.
Prison Placement Ban
Links
- LegiScan record(opens another site)
- Official legislature page(opens another site)
- Introduced text (Nov 12, 2024)(opens another site)
- Comm Sub text (May 9, 2025)(opens another site)
- Bill page on this site
Recorded actions
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| House | Filed | |
| House | Read first time | |
| House | Referred to s/c on Juvenile Justice by Speaker | |
| House | Scheduled for public hearing in s/c on . . . | |
| House | Considered by s/c in public hearing | |
| House | Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in subcommittee | |
| House | Left pending in subcommittee | |
| House | Recalled from subcommittee | |
| House | Considered in public hearing | |
| House | Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) | |
| House | Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator | |
| House | Committee report distributed | |
| House | Committee report sent to Calendars |
Legislative status and legal enforcement are different. See the policy areas and the court sources they cite for enforcement.
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