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TX SB2789

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/14/2025

Primary Sponsor

Jose Menendez

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Origin

Senate

89th Legislature Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Adds invasive visual recording (Section 21.15, Penal Code) to the list of offenses requiring sex offender registration upon conviction or adjudication

  • Expands the invasive visual recording offense to include recording another person engaged in sexual conduct in a non-public location without consent

  • Increases minimum punishment for recording intimate areas or recording in bathrooms/changing rooms to a state jail felony with a minimum 1-year confinement term

  • Elevates the offense to a third-degree felony if the defendant has a prior conviction for a reportable sex offense

  • Makes promoting invasive visual recordings (knowing their character and content) a third-degree felony; applies only to offenses committed on or after September 1, 2025

Legislative Description

Relating to the prosecution of and punishment for the criminal offense of invasive visual recording and the applicability of sex offender registration requirements to that offense; increasing a criminal penalty.

Crimes

Last Action

Referred to Criminal Justice

4/3/2025

Committee Referrals

Criminal Justice4/3/2025

Full Bill Text

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