2026 Regular Session
HB51
(Constitutional Amendment) Restricts post-conviction bail for certain offenders (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)
Legislative progress
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This summary includes only completed milestones supported by recorded actions. It does not predict the next step, and it preserves later committee reassignments, concurrence, conference, veto, and approval actions when they occur.
Partner positions
Likes
NO BOND for a person CONVICTED of an AGGRAVATED CRIME against a MINOR is a simple, straightforward, common sense measure.
No public reasoning provided.
Recorded floor votes
2 roll calls are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.
April 20, 2026 · House
House Vote on HB 51 FINAL PASSAGE (#597)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
92 yea–0 nay · 13 absent
May 13, 2026 · Senate
Senate Vote on HB 51 FINAL PASSAGE (#866)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
31 yea–1 nay · 7 absent
Committee referrals
April 22, 2026 · Senate
Judiciary C
March 25, 2026 · House
Civil Law and Procedure
January 30, 2026 · House
Administration of Criminal Justice
Instrument history
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This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.
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House Effective date: See Act.
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House Becomes Act No. 271.
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House Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House.
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Senate Signed by the President of the Senate.
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House Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
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House Received from the Senate without amendments.
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Senate Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. View roll call
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Senate Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
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Senate Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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Senate Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
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Senate Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.
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Senate Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
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House Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. View roll call
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House Called from the calendar.
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House Scheduled for floor debate on 04/20/2026.
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House Notice given.
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House Read by title, returned to the calendar.
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House Scheduled for floor debate on 04/13/2026.
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House Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
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House Reported with amendments (8-0).
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House Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
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House Reported favorably (11-0. To be recommitted to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
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House Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
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House First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 1/30/2026.
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House Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
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House Prefiled.