Monitoring the SessionSB 632
Died in committee
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
relating to consequences arising from a failure by appointed counsel in a criminal case to timely meet and confer with the defendant after the defendant is found competent to stand trial.
Caption from analyzed text · version I.
Miss the meeting after a competency finding, face the judge.
The bill lets judges punish court-appointed defense lawyers who fail to meet with a client on time after the client is found competent to stand trial. Judges can replace the lawyer, a majority of local criminal judges can drop a lawyer from the appointment list for intentional or repeated failures, and the judge or a managed assigned counsel director can withhold the lawyer's pay. Once the lawyer meets with the client, the withheld pay must be released, and the rules apply to pending cases starting September 1, 2025.
Labels: ZOMBIE BILL. Died 2 times: 88R HB 1383 by Rep. Rose (Died in committee) and this bill (Died in committee). Checked against 88R only.DO-OVER. Reworked text of a bill filed before that died: 88R HB 1383 by Rep. Rose (Died in committee). Filed in 2 sessions, counting this one. Checked against 88R only.TRY NO. 2. Filed in 2 sessions: 88R and 89R. Checked against 88R only.NEVER GOT A HEARING. Filed Dec 17, 2024 and referred to the Senate Criminal Justice committee. No public hearing. The bill died.
89R-SB632 · 2024-12-17
relating to consequences arising from a failure by appointed counsel in a criminal case to timely meet and confer with the defendant after the defendant is found competent to stand trial.
Miss the meeting after a competency finding, face the judge.
The bill lets judges punish court-appointed defense lawyers who fail to meet with a client on time after the client is found competent to stand trial. Judges can replace the lawyer, a majority of local criminal judges can drop a lawyer from the appointment list for intentional or repeated failures, and the judge or a managed assigned counsel director can withhold the lawyer's pay. Once the lawyer meets with the client, the withheld pay must be released, and the rules apply to pending cases starting September 1, 2025.
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Analysis of text version I by claude-opus-5-5, Oct 20, 2026, against the published rubric.
Filed 2 times: 88R and 89R. Checked against 88R only.
by Rep. Rose, different lead author · Died in committee · reworked
Introduced textLast action, May 5, 2023: Referred to Criminal Justice
Relating to procedures in a criminal case after a defendant is found competent to stand trial and to consequences arising from certain violations of those procedures.
Caption, 88R bill history
Texas Senate · Filed Dec 17, 2024
02/03/2025 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
Courts--Judges
Criminal Procedure--General
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The text as introduced · 315 words
89R5029 JCG-D By: Eckhardt S.B. No. 632 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to consequences arising from a failure by appointed counsel in a criminal case to timely meet and confer with the defendant after the defendant is found competent to stand trial. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Article 26.04(k), Code of Criminal Procedure, is amended to read as follows: (k) A court may replace with other counsel an attorney who violates Subsection (j)(1) or fails to timely meet and confer with a defendant as required by Article 46B.084(a)(1) [ with other counsel ]. A majority of the judges of the county courts and statutory county courts or the district courts, as appropriate, trying criminal cases in the county may remove from consideration for appointment an attorney who intentionally or repeatedly violates Subsection (j)(1) or Article 46B.084(a)(1) . SECTION 2. Article 26.05, Code of Criminal Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (i) to read as follows: (i) The judge presiding over the proceedings or the director of a managed assigned counsel program under Article 26.047, as applicable, may disapprove a payment requested under this article for services performed for a case in which the appointed counsel fails to timely meet and confer with the defendant as required by Article 46B.084(a)(1). On the appointed counsel's compliance with the meet and confer requirement, the presiding judge or director, as applicable, shall pay to the counsel the amount otherwise approved under this article and may not continue to disapprove the requested payment based solely on the disapproval permitted by this subsection. SECTION 3. Articles 26.04 and 26.05, Code of Criminal Procedure, as amended by this Act, apply to a criminal case in which the indictment or information is filed before, on, or after the effective date of this Act. SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.