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Professional Bondsmen of Texas (PBT)

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https://pbtx.com/
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What this organization says it wants

Professional Bondsmen of Texas (PBT) is on record about 10 bills, through federal lobbying filings and testimony to state committees. None of them carries both a stated side and a bill we have placed on the scale, so there is nothing here to compare yet.

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The positions, and the documents they come from

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  • ForTX-89-hb75Relating to the duty of a magistrate to make written findings in certain criminal proceedings.

    “HB 75 by Smithee (SB 9)- Supported by PBT- This bill contains tweaks to the Bail Reform bill passed 2 sessions ago. It adds offenses to the list of charges to which a personal bond is not authorized.”

    Published by the organization2025Open the record

  • ForTX-89-sb9Relating to the confinement or release of defendants before trial or sentencing, including regulating charitable bail organizations, and the conditions of and procedures for setting bail and reviewing bail decisions.

    “HB 75 by Smithee (SB 9)- Supported by PBT- This bill contains tweaks to the Bail Reform bill passed 2 sessions ago. It adds offenses to the list of charges to which a personal bond is not authorized.”

    Published by the organization2025Open the record

  • ForTX-89-sjr1Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the denial of bail under certain circumstances for illegal aliens charged with certain offenses punishable as a felony.

    “HJR 16 by Smithee (SJR 1)- Supported by PBT- Proposed Constitutional amendment which states that if a person is in the country illegally and they are accused of committing a crime that is a felony, they are not eligible for bail.”

    Published by the organization2025Open the record

  • ForTX-89-hb76Relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds to pay bail bonds.

    “HB 76 by Smithee (SB 40)- Supported by PBT- This bill states that government funds cannot be given to charitable bail fund to bond people out of jail.”

    Published by the organization2025Open the recordnot counted yet

  • ForTX-89-sb40Relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds to pay bail bonds; authorizing injunctive relief.

    “HB 76 by Smithee (SB 40)- Supported by PBT- This bill states that government funds cannot be given to charitable bail fund to bond people out of jail.”

    Published by the organization2025Open the recordnot counted yet

  • ForTX-89-hjr15Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the denial of bail under limited circumstances to a person accused of certain violent or sexual offenses or of continuous trafficking of persons.

    “HJR 15 by Smithee (SJR 5)- Supported by PBT- Proposed Constitutional amendment to broaden preventative detention.”

    Published by the organization2025Open the recordnot counted yet

  • ForTX-89-hjr16Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the denial of bail for an illegal alien charged with an offense punishable as a felony.

    “HJR 16 by Smithee (SJR 1)- Supported by PBT- Proposed Constitutional amendment which states that if a person is in the country illegally and they are accused of committing a crime that is a felony, they are not eligible for bail.”

    Published by the organization2025Open the recordnot counted yet

  • ForTX-89-sjr5Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the denial of bail under certain circumstances to persons accused of certain offenses punishable as a felony.

    “HJR 15 by Smithee (SJR 5)- Supported by PBT- Proposed Constitutional amendment to broaden preventative detention.”

    Published by the organization2025Open the recordnot counted yet

  • AgainstTX-89-hb799Relating to the release on personal bond of certain defendants charged with a misdemeanor or state jail felony.

    “HB 799 by Moody- Strongly opposed by PBT- This bill undoes many of the changes made by SB6 and hold that all misdemeanors and state jail felonies shall be released on personal bond.”

    Published by the organization2025Open the recordnot counted yet

  • AgainstTX-88-sb1151Relating to the authority of corporations to act as sureties on bail bonds.

    “SB 1151 ties the hands of bondsmen and prevents them from doing their jobs. Please vote against SB 1151.”

    Published by the organization2023Open the recordnot counted yet

Marked positions are on record but not yet counted: we have not placed those bills on our scale, so they do not move any number on this page.

What it says on the issues

Statements that name no bill. Each was placed on one of our lines by reading the quote, and kept only where our quiz questions on that line, answered from the same quote, lean the same way. Each counts like one answer to a quiz question.

  • Cash bailkeep it

    “Call to Action No. 2- Opposing Risk Assessments in General”

    Published by the organization2021-04-05Open the record

  • Social Welfareless policy activity in Social Welfare

    “It is a tax-payer funded program that has been shown in study after study not to work.”

    Published by the organizationOpen the record

1 more reading was held back because the quiz questions on that line did not agree with it, or could not be answered from the quote.

What we don't have on this organization

  • No politicians linked

    We have no contribution from this organization to any candidate on file yet. The contribution walk is still running, so this may be a gap in our ingestion rather than in its giving.

  • No committee totals

    This committee’s own receipts and disbursements — its totals as filed — are not ingested. What we hold about its money is the contributions we have matched to named candidates.