Texas Legislature
Bills Sponsored / Joint Sponsored
Rep. Pete Gallego
81st Legislature Regular Session
Report Date: 2/8/2026

Number of Bills: 40

Report Sections: Sponsored Bills | Joint Sponsored Bills

Sponsor (24):
SB 117 Author: Ellis
Sponsor: Gallego
Last Action: 05/21/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption: Relating to photograph and live lineup identification procedures in criminal cases.

SB 366 Author: Carona
Sponsor: Gallego | Miklos | Moody | Christian | Riddle
Last Action: 05/23/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption: Relating to authorizing consecutive sentencing for certain offenses committed by a member of a criminal street gang.

SB 388 Author: Carona
Sponsor: Gallego
Last Action: 05/23/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption: Relating to the creation of a public corruption unit in the Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas.

SB 449 Author: Carona
Sponsor: Gallego | Fletcher | Moody | Christian | Pierson
Last Action: 06/19/2009 E Effective on 9/1/09
Caption: Relating to the penalty group classification of certain controlled substances.

SB 595 Author: Hegar
Sponsor: Gallego
Last Action: 05/30/2009 E Effective on 9/1/09
Caption: Relating to the sealing of and discovery procedures relating to evidence that constitutes child pornography in a criminal hearing or proceeding.

SB 625 Author: Wentworth
Sponsor: Gallego
Last Action: 05/22/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption: Relating to the representation of indigent defendants in criminal cases.

SB 671 Author: Shapleigh
Sponsor: Gallego | Oliveira
Last Action: 06/19/2009 E Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Caption: Relating to information requested by a member, committee, or agency of the legislature under the public information law.

SB 808 Author: Whitmire
Sponsor: Gallego
Last Action: 06/19/2009 E Effective on 9/1/09
Caption: Relating to allowing certain claimants to file an application under the Crime Victims' Compensation Act.

SB 1028 Author: Watson
Sponsor: Gallego
Last Action: 05/23/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption: Relating to the offense of operating or riding in a passenger vehicle while not secured by a safety belt.

SB 1068 Author: Wentworth
Sponsor: Gallego
Last Action: 06/04/2009 E Effective immediately
Caption: Relating to allowing a governmental body to redact certain personal information under the public information law without the necessity of requesting a decision from the attorney general and allowing information about a public officer or public employee to be withheld if disclosure would pose a substantial risk of physical harm.

SB 1091 Author: Ellis | Duncan
Sponsor: Gallego
Last Action: 06/19/2009 E Effective on 9/1/09
Caption: Relating to the establishment of the capital writs committee and the office of capital writs and to the appointment and compensation of certain counsel for indigent defendants in a capital case.

SB 1454 Author: West
Sponsor: Gallego | Miklos | Kent | Moody | Pierson
Last Action: 05/20/2009 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Caption: Relating to the right to an expunction of records and files relating to a person's arrest.

SB 1529 Author: Whitmire
Sponsor: Gallego
Last Action: 05/21/2009 H Placed on Major State Calendar
Caption: Relating to criminal asset forfeiture, the disposition of proceeds and property from criminal asset forfeiture, and accountability for that disposition; providing civil penalties.

SB 1557 Author: Duncan
Sponsor: Gallego
Last Action: 06/19/2009 E Effective on 9/1/09
Caption: Relating to the early identification of criminal defendants who are or may be persons with mental illness or mental retardation.

SB 1681 Author: Hinojosa
Sponsor: Gallego
Last Action: 06/19/2009 E Effective on 9/1/09
Caption: Relating to requiring the corroboration of certain testimony to support a criminal conviction.

SB 1707 Author: West
Sponsor: Gallego | Miklos | Thompson | Moody | Fletcher
Last Action: 05/22/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption: Relating to the use of proceeds from criminal asset forfeiture to provide college scholarships to children of peace officers killed in the line of duty and to an annual report regarding the total value of forfeited property in this state.

SB 1909 Author: Hinojosa
Sponsor: Gallego
Last Action: 05/19/2009 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Caption: Relating to the establishment by the Texas Forensic Science Commission of a DNA laboratory audit program.

SB 1976 Author: Whitmire
Sponsor: Gallego
Last Action: 05/22/2009 H 1 hr. notice-to suspend rules
Caption: Relating to procedures for applications for writs of habeas corpus based on relevant scientific evidence.

SB 2105 Author: Uresti
Sponsor: Gallego
Last Action: 05/22/2009 H 1 hr. notice-to suspend rules
Caption: Relating to limiting the liability of space flight entities.

SB 2162 Author: Ellis
Sponsor: Gallego | Pierson | Kent | Miklos | Moody
Last Action: 05/22/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption: Relating to the appointment of counsel for the purposes of community supervision revocation or appellate proceedings.

SB 2442 Author: Uresti
Sponsor: Gallego
Last Action: 06/19/2009 E Effective on 1/1/10
Caption: Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of property owned by certain charitable organizations.

SB 2559 Author: Uresti
Sponsor: Gallego
Last Action: 05/22/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption: Relating to the imposition and rate of the county hotel occupancy tax in certain counties.

SCR 3 Author: Whitmire
Sponsor: Gallego
Last Action: 01/27/2009 E Filed with the Secretary of State
Caption: Granting the legislature permission to adjourn for more than three days during the period beginning on Wednesday, January 14, 2009, and ending on Monday, January 26, 2009.

SCR 8 Author: Whitmire
Sponsor: Gallego
Last Action: 02/04/2009 E Filed with the Secretary of State
Caption: Granting the legislature permission to adjourn for more than three days during the period beginning on Wednesday, January 28, 2009, and ending on Monday, February 2, 2009.

Joint Sponsor (16):
SB 11 Author: Carona
Sponsor: Miklos | Moody | Gallego | Christian | Fletcher
Last Action: 05/22/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption: Relating to the prevention, investigation, prosecution, and punishment for certain gang-related and other criminal offenses and to the consequences and costs of engaging in certain activities of a criminal street gang or certain other criminal activity; providing penalties.

SB 261 Author: Deuell
Sponsor: Gattis | Riddle | Miklos | Gallego | Pierson
Last Action: 05/22/2009 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Caption: Relating to the taking of a specimen of the breath or blood of certain persons arrested for an intoxication offense.

SB 369 Author: Carona
Sponsor: Moody | Gallego | Christian | Miklos | Riddle
Last Action: 05/22/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption: Relating to information contained in an intelligence database used to investigate and prosecute offenses committed by criminal street gangs.

SB 371 Author: Carona
Sponsor: Miklos | Gallego | Moody | Fletcher | Christian
Last Action: 05/22/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption: Relating to certain civil consequences of engaging in organized crime.

SB 413 Author: Carona
Sponsor: Kent | Christian | Miklos | Riddle | Gallego
Last Action: 06/19/2009 E Effective on 9/1/09
Caption: Relating to the prosecution of a Class C misdemeanor offense for which the defendant does not appear.

SB 414 Author: Carona
Sponsor: Kent | Christian | Moody | Riddle | Gallego
Last Action: 06/19/2009 E Effective on 9/1/09
Caption: Relating to conducting by electronic means a hearing to determine a defendant's ability to discharge certain fines and court costs.

SB 415 Author: Carona
Sponsor: Kent | Riddle | Pierson | Christian | Gallego
Last Action: 06/19/2009 E Effective on 9/1/09
Caption: Relating to the court in which certain persons charged with misdemeanors punishable by fine only may be arraigned.

SB 423 Author: Carona
Sponsor: Moody | Gallego | Riddle | Fletcher | Christian
Last Action: 05/22/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption: Relating to the conditions of community supervision that may be imposed on a defendant with regard to association with a member of a criminal street gang.

SB 710 Author: Nelson
Sponsor: Jackson, Jim | Pierson | Kent | Riddle | Gallego
Last Action: 05/22/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption: Relating to the punishment for the offense of employment harmful to children.

SB 787 Author: Nelson
Sponsor: Pierson | Riddle | Christian | Fletcher | Gallego
Last Action: 05/22/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption: Relating to the statute of limitations on prosecution of the offense of bigamy.

SB 1176 Author: Patrick, Dan
Sponsor: Fletcher | Hunter | Gallego | Christian | Pierson
Last Action: 05/22/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption: Relating to the punishment prescribed for the offense of evading arrest or detention.

SB 1281 Author: Williams
Sponsor: Fletcher | Miklos | Moody | Riddle | Gallego
Last Action: 05/21/2009 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Caption: Relating to the fraudulent obtaining of a controlled substance from a practitioner; providing a penalty.

SB 1537 Author: Van de Putte
Sponsor: Farias | Gallego | Turner, Chris
Last Action: 05/13/2009 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Caption: Relating to tuition and fee exemptions at public institutions of higher education for certain military personnel and their dependents and for the spouses and children of certain deceased, missing, and disabled military personnel.

SB 1662 Author: Seliger
Sponsor: Vaught | Gallego | Christian | Miklos | Moody
Last Action: 05/22/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption: Relating to the prosecution of and punishment for the offense of breach of computer security.

SB 2224 Author: West
Sponsor: Hodge | Gallego
Last Action: 05/22/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption: Relating to orders of nondisclosure for the records of children convicted of certain offenses punishable by fine only.

SB 2438 Author: Uresti
Sponsor: Moody | Gallego | Fletcher | Riddle | Christian
Last Action: 06/19/2009 E Effective immediately
Caption: Relating to imposing a duty on a sheriff to report certain warrant or capias information to a national database.

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