Bill Text: TX HB3464 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to creating the criminal offense of tampering with a correctional facility tablet device.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-16 - Referred to Criminal Justice [HB3464 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3464-Comm_Sub.html
  88R13695 MZM-F
 
  By: Kacal H.B. No. 3464
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to creating the criminal offense of tampering with a
  correctional facility tablet device.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 38, Penal Code, is amended by adding
  Section 38.115 to read as follows:
         Sec. 38.115.  TAMPERING WITH CORRECTIONAL FACILITY TABLET
  DEVICE. (a) In this section, "correctional facility" means:
               (1)  any place described by Section 1.07(a)(14)(A),
  (B), or (C); or
               (2)  a secure correctional facility or secure detention
  facility, as defined by Section 51.02, Family Code.
         (b)  A person commits an offense if the person, while
  confined in a correctional facility, alters, modifies, or breaches
  the security, programming, or operating system of a tablet device
  provided to the person by the operator of the correctional
  facility.
         (c)  An offense under this section is a felony of the third
  degree.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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