SB 1604

mental health leave expands to crime analysts

Died in committee

Verdict: No flags

No flagsInitial review

Initial review · graded Oct 20, 2026 · Headline, summary and grade are analysis of the bill text, not a finding about any person · How we grade

Caption

relating to the adoption of a mental health leave policy for certain qualified employees.

Caption from analyzed text · version I.

Summary

Telecommunicators no longer need to be full-time.

The bill widens the existing state rule that requires law enforcement employers to adopt a paid mental health leave policy for workers who go through a traumatic event on the job. Today the rule covers peace officers and full-time telecommunicators, and the bill adds criminal intelligence analysts and crime analysts and drops the full-time limit for telecommunicators. Every state or local agency allowed to employ peace officers must adopt or update a policy that sets the number of leave days, pays the worker during leave, and spells out how anonymous the leave is, starting September 1, 2025.

Labels

Labels: NEVER GOT A HEARING. Filed Feb 24, 2025 and referred to the Senate Criminal Justice committee. No public hearing. The bill died.

Receipt

The receipt

89R-SB1604 · 2025-02-24

SOLD BY

Sen. Adam HinojosaRSenate 27

ITEM

relating to the adoption of a mental health leave policy for certain qualified employees.

WHAT IT DOES

Telecommunicators no longer need to be full-time.

CHARGES

[ ] NONE FOUND

TOTAL

No fiscal note in the loaded record.

HISTORY

Feb 24, 2025Received by the Secretary of the Senate
Feb 24, 2025Filed
Mar 10, 2025Read first time
Mar 10, 2025Referred to Criminal Justice

FILED UNDER

No verified beat found.

No flags

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CAMPAIGN PAID FOR BY

Adam Hinojosa

Donors

Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC$100KMayes Middleton$34,597Greg Abbott Campaign$33K

Not tied to this bill.

Sources

The author's campaign account only. Own money and internal transfers are separate on the member page.

Derived itemized flow · Oct 28, 2024 to May 5, 2026. State data as of Nov 4, 2026.

Derived itemized contributions on live regular reports and uncovered special-session dates. Internal account transfers and daily reports are excluded.

Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC$100,000.00

Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC

$100,000.00

Cash: $100,000.00
Paid by others: $0.00
Total: $100,000.00

Also funds 124 other sitting lawmakers.

Derived recipient stock · Jul 10, 2024 to Oct 23, 2026. State data as of Nov 4, 2026.

TEC account match.

Team

Sources

Derived itemized flow · on Oct 28, 2024. State data as of Nov 4, 2026.

Derived itemized contributions on live regular reports and uncovered special-session dates. Internal account transfers and daily reports are excluded.

Report IDs: 100989239.

Mayes Middleton$34,596.72

Greg Abbott Campaign$33,489.82

Greg Abbott Campaign

$33,489.82

Cash: $0.00
Paid by others: $33,489.82
Total: $33,489.82

travel $16,942.43text $12,002.83event $4,544.56

Also funds 9 other sitting lawmakers.

Derived recipient stock · Oct 29, 2024 to Sep 2, 2026. State data as of Nov 4, 2026.

Name match, not a verified identity: normalized filed name and state.

Team

Sources

Derived itemized flow · Oct 29, 2024 to Nov 12, 2024. State data as of Nov 4, 2026.

Derived itemized contributions on live regular reports and uncovered special-session dates. Internal account transfers and daily reports are excluded.

Report IDs: 100989239.

Money

Missing data does not establish zero giving. Display amounts are rounded.

Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC

$100,000.00

Cash: $100,000.00
Paid by others: $0.00
Total: $100,000.00

Also funds 124 other sitting lawmakers.

Derived recipient stock · Jul 10, 2024 to Oct 23, 2026. State data as of Nov 4, 2026.

TEC account match.

Team

Sources

Derived itemized flow · on Oct 28, 2024. State data as of Nov 4, 2026.

Derived itemized contributions on live regular reports and uncovered special-session dates. Internal account transfers and daily reports are excluded.

Report IDs: 100989239.

Greg Abbott Campaign

$33,489.82

Cash: $0.00
Paid by others: $33,489.82
Total: $33,489.82

travel $16,942.43text $12,002.83event $4,544.56

Also funds 9 other sitting lawmakers.

Derived recipient stock · Oct 29, 2024 to Sep 2, 2026. State data as of Nov 4, 2026.

Name match, not a verified identity: normalized filed name and state.

Team

Sources

Derived itemized flow · Oct 29, 2024 to Nov 12, 2024. State data as of Nov 4, 2026.

Derived itemized contributions on live regular reports and uncovered special-session dates. Internal account transfers and daily reports are excluded.

Report IDs: 100989239.

Votes

No floor vote loaded for this bill.

Fiscal

No fiscal note in the loaded record.

How this was graded

Analysis of text version I by claude-opus-5-5, Oct 20, 2026, against the published rubric.

Sources

Texas Senate · Filed Feb 24, 2025

03/10/2025 S Referred to Criminal Justice

Texas Legislature Online · Introduced

Data snapshot Oct 26, 2026 at 4:20 AM CDT. Grades, charges, quotes and corrections follow the published record.

Senate committee · Criminal Justice · Final status: Died in committee

Subjects

Law Enforcement

Mental Health & Substance Abuse

State Employees

PEACE OFFICERS

TELECOMMUNICATORS

Text

The text as introduced · 437 words

89R14105 JBD-F

By: Hinojosa of Nueces
S.B. No. 1604

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the adoption of a mental health leave policy for certain

qualified employees.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 614.015, Government Code, is amended to

read as follows:

Sec. 614.015. MENTAL HEALTH LEAVE FOR QUALIFIED EMPLOYEES

OF CERTAIN AGENCIES [ PEACE OFFICERS AND TELECOMMUNICATORS ]. (a)

In this section:

(1) "Peace officer" means an individual described by

Article 2A.001, Code of Criminal Procedure.

(2) "Qualified agency" [ "Law enforcement agency" ]

means an agency of the state or of a political subdivision of the

state authorized [ by law ] to employ a peace officer [ officers ].

(3) "Qualified employee" means:

(A) a peace officer;

(B) a telecommunicator;

(C) a criminal intelligence analyst; or

(D) a crime analyst.

(4) [ (2) ] "Telecommunicator" means a person

authorized to act as a telecommunicator under Section 1701.405,

Occupations Code.

(b) Each qualified agency [ law enforcement agency, and each

agency of the state or of a political subdivision of the state ] that

employs a qualified employee [ a full-time telecommunicator, ] shall

develop and adopt a policy allowing the use of mental health leave

by the qualified employee [ peace officers and full-time

telecommunicators, as applicable, employed by the agency ] who

experiences [ experience ] a traumatic event in the scope of that

employment.

(c) A mental health leave policy adopted under this section

must:

(1) provide clear and objective guidelines

establishing the circumstances under which a qualified employee

[ peace officer or telecommunicator ] is granted and may use mental

health leave;

(2) entitle a qualified employee [ peace officer or

telecommunicator ] to mental health leave without a deduction in

salary or other compensation;

(3) enumerate the number of mental health leave days

available to a qualified employee [ peace officer or

telecommunicator ]; and

(4) detail the level of anonymity for a qualified

employee [ peace officer or telecommunicator ] who takes mental

health leave.

(d) A mental health leave policy adopted under this section

may provide a list of mental health services available to a

qualified employee [ peace officers and telecommunicators in the

area of the law enforcement or employing agency ].

SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date

of this Act, each agency required to adopt a mental health leave

policy under Section 614.015, Government Code, as amended by this

Act, shall adopt a mental health leave policy as prescribed by that

section.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.