AUSTIN, Texas — A bill filed in the Texas House this legislative session would decriminalize homosexual conduct in Texas. House Bill 1738, filed by State Rep. Venton Jones (D-Dallas), would repeal a ...

HB 1738, state Rep. Venton Jones’ bill to remove language criminalizing consensual sexual contact between adults of the same gender, passed the House on a third reading on Friday, May 16, by a vote of ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A Texas law criminalizing “homosexual conduct” – on the books since 1973 – is closer to being repealed Monday. House Bill 1738, which would remove the measure from the state’s penal ...

Legislators criminalized such behavior back to the 1800s. When the Texas penal code needed updating in the 1900s, lawmakers saw fit to keep their anti-sodomy law on the books, banning “deviate sexual ...

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