Relating to the use of funds from the rural prosecutor's office salary assistance grant program.
HB 1845 clarifies that rural prosecutor offices receiving salary assistance grants must use funds **only** to either increase salaries for specific staff (assistant attorneys, investigators, paralegals, or victim coordinators) or hire additional staff. It directly affects rural prosecutor offices in Texas that participate in the state’s salary assistance grant program. The bill takes effect September 1, 2025, and prohibits using these funds for other purposes like office supplies or equipment.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2025
Committee Review
May 2025
House Passage
May 2025
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Mar 14, 2025
Last action May 19, 2025
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May 16, 2025
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The bill text was reformatted and cleaned up with improved spacing and line breaks. The substantive content of the legislation remains unchanged, including the requirements for how rural prosecutor's office grant funds must be used and the effective date of September 1, 2025.
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Added header information including bill number, sponsor names, and version designation (Engrossed version)
Reformatted text with consistent spacing, line breaks, and removed internal tracking codes and markup annotations
Corrected formatting of section headers and subsection numbering for readability
Floor votes · House May 16, 2025
How they voted
104–27
Passed · 15 other
Total votes 146
May 16, 2025
D
Democratic60
83% Yea
R
Republican86
62% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
27
Key actions
8
Committee
8
May 19, 2025
Committee
Referred to Finance
upper
May 19, 2025
Introduced
Read first time
upper
May 19, 2025
Introduced
Received from the House
upper
May 16, 2025
Lower · Passed
Passed
lower
May 15, 2025
Lower · Passed
Passed to engrossment
lower
May 9, 2025
Lower · Passed
Committee report sent to Calendars
lower
May 8, 2025
Lower · Passed
Committee report distributed
lower
Apr 28, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)
lower
Apr 28, 2025
Lower · Passed
Recalled from subcommittee
lower
Mar 31, 2025
Lower · Passed
Left pending in subcommittee
lower
Mar 31, 2025
Lower · Passed
Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in subcommittee
lower
Mar 14, 2025
Committee
Referred to s/c on County & Regional Government by Speaker
lower
Mar 14, 2025
Introduced
Read first time
lower
2 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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