Bill Text: TX HB1784 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub


Bill Title: Relating to certain requirements of protective orders and conditions of release on bond and to the criminal penalties for violating those requirements and conditions.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-17 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1784 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB1784-Comm_Sub.html
  88R7085 JSC-D
 
  By: Landgraf, Bhojani H.B. No. 1784
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to certain requirements of protective orders and
  conditions of release on bond and to the criminal penalties for
  violating those requirements and conditions.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Article 7B.005(a), Code of Criminal Procedure,
  is amended to read as follows:
         (a)  In a protective order issued under this subchapter, the
  court may:
               (1)  order the alleged offender to take action as
  specified by the court that the court determines is necessary or
  appropriate to prevent or reduce the likelihood of future harm to
  the applicant or a member of the applicant's family or household; or
               (2)  prohibit the alleged offender from:
                     (A)  communicating:
                           (i)  directly or indirectly with the
  applicant or any member of the applicant's family or household in a
  threatening or harassing manner; or
                           (ii)  in any manner with the applicant or any
  member of the applicant's family or household except through the
  applicant's attorney or a person appointed by the court, if the
  court finds good cause for the prohibition;
                     (B)  going to or near the residence, place of
  employment or business, or child-care facility or school of the
  applicant or any member of the applicant's family or household;
                     (C)  engaging in conduct directed specifically
  toward the applicant or any member of the applicant's family or
  household, including following the person, that is reasonably
  likely to harass, annoy, alarm, abuse, torment, or embarrass the
  person; [and]
                     (D)  possessing a firearm, unless the alleged
  offender is a peace officer, as defined by Section 1.07, Penal Code,
  actively engaged in employment as a sworn, full-time paid employee
  of a state agency or political subdivision; and
                     (E)  remotely controlling an electronic device
  affecting the residence, vehicle, or property of:
                           (i)  an applicant; or
                           (ii)  a member of the applicant's family or
  household.
         SECTION 2.  Article 17.292(c), Code of Criminal Procedure,
  is amended to read as follows:
         (c)  The magistrate in the order for emergency protection may
  prohibit the arrested party from:
               (1)  committing:
                     (A)  family violence or an assault on the person
  protected under the order; or
                     (B)  an act in furtherance of an offense under
  Section 20A.02 or 42.072, Penal Code;
               (2)  communicating:
                     (A)  directly with a member of the family or
  household or with the person protected under the order in a
  threatening or harassing manner;
                     (B)  a threat through any person to a member of the
  family or household or to the person protected under the order; or
                     (C)  if the magistrate finds good cause, in any
  manner with a person protected under the order or a member of the
  family or household of a person protected under the order, except
  through the party's attorney or a person appointed by the court;
               (3)  going to or near:
                     (A)  the residence, place of employment, or
  business of a member of the family or household or of the person
  protected under the order; or
                     (B)  the residence, child care facility, or school
  where a child protected under the order resides or attends; [or]
               (4)  possessing a firearm, unless the person is a peace
  officer, as defined by Section 1.07, Penal Code, actively engaged
  in employment as a sworn, full-time paid employee of a state agency
  or political subdivision; or
               (5)  remotely controlling an electronic device
  affecting the residence, vehicle, or property of:
                     (A)  a person protected under the order; or
                     (B)  a member of the family or household of a
  person protected under the order.
         SECTION 3.  Article 17.49(b), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (b)  A magistrate may require as a condition of release on
  bond that a defendant charged with an offense involving family
  violence:
               (1)  refrain from going to or near a residence, school,
  place of employment, or other location, as specifically described
  in the bond, frequented by an alleged victim of the offense;
               (2)  carry or wear a global positioning monitoring
  system device and, except as provided by Subsection (h), pay a
  reimbursement fee for the costs associated with operating that
  system in relation to the defendant; [or]
               (3)  except as provided by Subsection (h), if the
  alleged victim of the offense consents after receiving the
  information described by Subsection (d), pay a reimbursement fee
  for the costs associated with providing the victim with an
  electronic receptor device that:
                     (A)  is capable of receiving the global
  positioning monitoring system information from the device carried
  or worn by the defendant; and
                     (B)  notifies the victim if the defendant is at or
  near a location that the defendant has been ordered to refrain from
  going to or near under Subdivision (1); or
               (4)  refrain from remotely controlling an electronic
  device affecting the residence, vehicle, or property of an alleged
  victim of the offense.
         SECTION 4.  Section 85.021, Family Code, is amended to read
  as follows:
         Sec. 85.021.  REQUIREMENTS OF ORDER APPLYING TO ANY PARTY.  
  In a protective order, the court may:
               (1)  prohibit a party from:
                     (A)  removing a child who is a member of the family
  or household from:
                           (i)  the possession of a person named in the
  order; or
                           (ii)  the jurisdiction of the court;
                     (B)  transferring, encumbering, or otherwise
  disposing of property, other than in the ordinary course of
  business, that is mutually owned or leased by the parties; [or]
                     (C)  removing a pet, companion animal, or
  assistance animal, as defined by Section 121.002, Human Resources
  Code, from the possession or actual or constructive care of a person
  named in the order; or
                     (D)  remotely controlling an electronic device
  affecting the residence, vehicle, or property of a person named in
  the order;
               (2)  grant exclusive possession of a residence to a
  party and, if appropriate, direct one or more parties to vacate the
  residence if the residence:
                     (A)  is jointly owned or leased by the party
  receiving exclusive possession and a party being denied possession;
                     (B)  is owned or leased by the party retaining
  possession; or
                     (C)  is owned or leased by the party being denied
  possession and that party has an obligation to support the party or
  a child of the party granted possession of the residence;
               (3)  provide for the possession of and access to a child
  of a party if the person receiving possession of or access to the
  child is a parent of the child;
               (4)  require the payment of support for a party or for a
  child of a party if the person required to make the payment has an
  obligation to support the other party or the child; or
               (5)  award to a party the use and possession of
  specified property that is community property or jointly owned or
  leased property.
         SECTION 5.  Section 85.022(b), Family Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (b)  In a protective order, the court may prohibit the person
  found to have committed family violence from:
               (1)  committing family violence;
               (2)  communicating:
                     (A)  directly with a person protected by an order
  or a member of the family or household of a person protected by an
  order, in a threatening or harassing manner;
                     (B)  a threat through any person to a person
  protected by an order or a member of the family or household of a
  person protected by an order; and
                     (C)  if the court finds good cause, in any manner
  with a person protected by an order or a member of the family or
  household of a person protected by an order, except through the
  party's attorney or a person appointed by the court;
               (3)  going to or near the residence or place of
  employment or business of a person protected by an order or a member
  of the family or household of a person protected by an order;
               (4)  going to or near the residence, child-care
  facility, or school a child protected under the order normally
  attends or in which the child normally resides;
               (5)  engaging in conduct directed specifically toward a
  person who is a person protected by an order or a member of the
  family or household of a person protected by an order, including
  following the person, that is reasonably likely to harass, annoy,
  alarm, abuse, torment, or embarrass the person;
               (6)  possessing a firearm, unless the person is a peace
  officer, as defined by Section 1.07, Penal Code, actively engaged
  in employment as a sworn, full-time paid employee of a state agency
  or political subdivision; [and]
               (7)  harming, threatening, or interfering with the
  care, custody, or control of a pet, companion animal, or assistance
  animal, as defined by Section 121.002, Human Resources Code, that
  is possessed by or is in the actual or constructive care of a person
  protected by an order or by a member of the family or household of a
  person protected by an order; and
               (8)  remotely controlling an electronic device
  affecting the residence, vehicle, or property of:
                     (A)  a person protected by an order; or
                     (B)  a member of the family or household of a
  person protected by an order.
         SECTION 6.  Section 25.07(a), Penal Code, is amended to read
  as follows:
         (a)  A person commits an offense if, in violation of a
  condition of bond set in a family violence, sexual assault or abuse,
  indecent assault, stalking, or trafficking case and related to the
  safety of a victim or the safety of the community, an order issued
  under Subchapter A, Chapter 7B, Code of Criminal Procedure, an
  order issued under Article 17.292, Code of Criminal Procedure, an
  order issued under Section 6.504, Family Code, Chapter 83, Family
  Code, if the temporary ex parte order has been served on the person,
  Chapter 85, Family Code, or Subchapter F, Chapter 261, Family Code,
  or an order issued by another jurisdiction as provided by Chapter
  88, Family Code, the person knowingly or intentionally:
               (1)  commits family violence or an act in furtherance
  of an offense under Section 20A.02, 22.011, 22.012, 22.021, or
  42.072;
               (2)  communicates:
                     (A)  directly with a protected individual or a
  member of the family or household in a threatening or harassing
  manner;
                     (B)  a threat through any person to a protected
  individual or a member of the family or household; or
                     (C)  in any manner with the protected individual
  or a member of the family or household except through the person's
  attorney or a person appointed by the court, if the violation is of
  an order described by this subsection and the order prohibits any
  communication with a protected individual or a member of the family
  or household;
               (3)  goes to or near any of the following places as
  specifically described in the order or condition of bond:
                     (A)  the residence or place of employment or
  business of a protected individual or a member of the family or
  household; or
                     (B)  any child care facility, residence, or school
  where a child protected by the order or condition of bond normally
  resides or attends;
               (4)  possesses a firearm;
               (5)  harms, threatens, or interferes with the care,
  custody, or control of a pet, companion animal, or assistance
  animal that is possessed by a person protected by the order or
  condition of bond; [or]
               (6)  removes, attempts to remove, or otherwise tampers
  with the normal functioning of a global positioning monitoring
  system; or
               (7)  remotely controls an electronic device affecting
  the residence, vehicle, or property of:
                     (A)  a protected individual; or
                     (B)  a member of the family or household of a
  protected individual.
         SECTION 7.  (a) Article 7B.005, Code of Criminal Procedure,
  as amended by this Act, and Sections 85.021 and 85.022, Family Code,
  as amended by this Act, apply only to a protective order rendered on
  or after the effective date of this Act. A protective order rendered
  before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
  effect on the date the order was rendered, and the former law is
  continued in effect for that purpose.
         (b)  Article 17.292, Code of Criminal Procedure, as amended
  by this Act, applies only to a magistrate's order for emergency
  protection entered on or after the effective date of this Act. A
  magistrate's order for emergency protection entered before the
  effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
  date the order was entered, and the former law is continued in
  effect for that purpose.
         (c)  Article 17.49, Code of Criminal Procedure, as amended by
  this Act, applies only to a defendant released on bond in connection
  with an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
  Act. A defendant released on bond in connection with an offense
  committed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
  law in effect when the offense was committed, and the former law is
  continued in effect for that purpose.  For purposes of this
  subsection, an offense was committed before the effective date of
  this Act if any element of the offense occurred before that date.
         (d)  Section 25.07, Penal Code, as amended 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 subsection, an offense was committed
  before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense
  occurred before that date.
         SECTION 8.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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