Tex. Const. art. I, § 11b · Article 1. BILL OF RIGHTS
DENIAL OF BAIL FOR VIOLATION OF CONDITION OF RELEASE.
Text — Current through the amendments approved by voters in November 2025
Any person who is accused in this state of a felony or an offense involving family violence, who is released on bail pending trial, and whose bail is subsequently revoked or forfeited for a violation of a condition of release may be denied bail pending trial if a judge or magistrate in this state determines by a preponderance of the evidence at a subsequent hearing that the person violated a condition of release related to the safety of a victim of the alleged offense or to the safety of the community.
Notes and commentary — not constitutional text
History
(Added Nov. 8, 2005; amended Nov. 6, 2007.)
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the amendments approved by voters in November 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CN/htm/CN.1.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 3e9d5ecf4c2571c7c367fac6f4395245530b9ad76eb5c7863557889d086d14fe
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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