TX HB2274

Creates a nine-member commission to study and review all Texas penal laws outside the Penal Code, excluding drug offenses (Chapter 481, Health and Safety Code) and motor vehicle offenses, with members appointed by the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the house, chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court, and presiding judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals

Commission must report findings and recommendations to state leadership by November 1, 2026, identifying laws that are unnecessary, unclear, duplicative, or overly broad, and the commission dissolves December 31, 2026

Transfers sedition and sabotage offenses from the Government Code to a new Chapter 40 of the Penal Code, reclassifying both as second-degree felonies (previously had varying penalty structures up to 20 years imprisonment and $20,000 fine)

Adds "sabotage" to the list of underlying offenses that can elevate murder to capital murder when committed intentionally during the course of that crime

Reduces several criminal penalties across various codes, including lowering certain tobacco tax violations and utility code offenses from third-degree felonies to Class A misdemeanors for first offenses, while repealing various outdated or duplicative criminal provisions