Bill Text: TX SB275 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 275 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to the penalty for the offense of leaving the scene of an accident that involves personal injury or death.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-4)

Status: (Passed) 2013-05-18 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB275 Detail]

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	By: Watson, Davis	S.B. No. 275
	(In the Senate - Filed January 28, 2013; February 5, 2013,
	read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
	March 20, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5,
	Nays 0; March 20, 2013, sent to printer.)


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to the penalty for the offense of leaving the scene of an
	accident that involves personal injury or death.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 550.021, Transportation
	Code, is amended to read as follows:
	(c) A person commits an offense if the person does not stop
	or does not comply with the requirements of this section. An
	offense under this section:
	(1) involving an accident resulting in:
	(A) death of a person is a felony of the second
	degree; or
	(B) serious bodily injury, as defined by Section
	1.07, Penal Code, to a person is a felony of the third degree; and
	(2) involving an accident resulting in injury to which
	Subdivision (1) does not apply is punishable by:
	(A) imprisonment in the Texas Department of
	Criminal Justice for not more than five years or confinement in the
	county jail for not more than one year;
	(B) a fine not to exceed $5,000; or
	(C) both the fine and the imprisonment or
	confinement.
	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, 2013.

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