Bill Text: TX HB1752 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to a limitation on public access by livestream or videoconference to certain criminal proceedings involving evidence depicting an act of a sexual nature.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-07 - Filed [HB1752 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB1752-Introduced.html
  89R2991 MCF-D
 
  By: Manuel H.B. No. 1752
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to a limitation on public access by livestream or
  videoconference to certain criminal proceedings involving
  evidence depicting an act of a sexual nature.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 1, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
  amended by adding Article 1.245 to read as follows:
         Art. 1.245.  LIMITATION ON PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE LIVESTREAM IN
  CERTAIN PROCEEDINGS. A court may not allow public access by
  livestream or videoconference to any portion of a proceeding or
  trial in which evidence depicting an act of a sexual nature is
  presented unless:
               (1)  the court before the applicable portion of the
  proceeding or trial provides notice to the victim or guardian of the
  victim, the attorney representing the state, and the defendant that
  the evidence will be publicly accessible by livestream or
  videoconference; and
               (2)  the victim or guardian of the victim, the attorney
  representing the state, and the defendant each consent to allowing
  public access by livestream or videoconference to that portion of
  the proceeding or trial.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to a criminal proceeding that commences on or after the effective
  date of this Act. A criminal proceeding that commenced before the
  effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
  date the proceeding commenced, and the former law is continued in
  effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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