Bill Text: TX HB2057 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the creation of the offense of criminal conspiracy to interfere with an election.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-08 - Referred to Elections [HB2057 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB2057-Introduced.html

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82R10443 JRH-D
By: Pena H.B. No. 2057

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the creation of the offense of criminal conspiracy to
interfere with an election.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 71.02(a), Penal Code, as amended by
Chapters 153 (S.B. 2225), 1130 (H.B. 2086), and 1357 (S.B. 554),
Acts of the 81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, is reenacted
and amended to read as follows:
(a) A person commits an offense if, with the intent to
establish, maintain, or participate in a combination or in the
profits of a combination or as a member of a criminal street gang,
the person commits or conspires to commit one or more of the
following:
(1) murder, capital murder, arson, aggravated
robbery, robbery, burglary, theft, aggravated kidnapping,
kidnapping, aggravated assault, aggravated sexual assault, sexual
assault, forgery, deadly conduct, assault punishable as a Class A
misdemeanor, burglary of a motor vehicle, or unauthorized use of a
motor vehicle;
(2) any gambling offense punishable as a Class A
misdemeanor;
(3) promotion of prostitution, aggravated promotion
of prostitution, or compelling prostitution;
(4) unlawful manufacture, transportation, repair, or
sale of firearms or prohibited weapons;
(5) unlawful manufacture, delivery, dispensation, or
distribution of a controlled substance or dangerous drug, or
unlawful possession of a controlled substance or dangerous drug
through forgery, fraud, misrepresentation, or deception;
(6) any unlawful wholesale promotion or possession of
any obscene material or obscene device with the intent to wholesale
promote the same;
(7) any offense under Subchapter B, Chapter 43,
depicting or involving conduct by or directed toward a child
younger than 18 years of age;
(8) any felony offense under Chapter 32;
(9) any offense under Chapter 36;
(10) any offense under Chapter 34 or 35;
(11) any offense under Section 37.11(a);
(12) any offense under Chapter 20A;
(13) any offense under Section 37.10; [or]
(14) any offense under Section 38.06, 38.07, 38.09, or
38.11;
(15) [(14)] any offense under Section 42.10;
(16) [(14)] any offense under Section 46.06(a)(1) or
46.14; or
(17) any offense under Chapter 13, 64, 84, or 86,
Election Code.
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 when 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. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails
over another Act of the 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011,
relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
codes.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.