By: Smithee, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Huffman) H.B. No. 75          (In the Senate - Received from the House May 19, 2025;   May 19, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal   Justice; May 23, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote:     Yeas 6, Nays 1; May 23, 2025, sent to printer.)Click here to see the committee vote     A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT     relating to the duty of a magistrate to make written findings in   certain criminal proceedings.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Article 15.17, Code of Criminal Procedure, is   amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:          (h)  Not later than 24 hours after the time a magistrate   determines that no probable cause exists to believe that a person   committed the offense for which the person was arrested, the   magistrate shall enter in the record written findings to support   that finding.          SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only   to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.     An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is   governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,   and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.  For   purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the   effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred   before that date.          SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.     * * * * *