Bill Text: TX HB206 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the punishment for the offense of tampering with certain governmental records based on certain reporting for school districts and open-enrollment charter schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-23 - Left pending in committee [HB206 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB206-Introduced.html
83R618 GCB-D | ||
By: Marquez | H.B. No. 206 |
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relating to the punishment for the offense of tampering with | ||
certain governmental records based on certain reporting for school | ||
districts and open-enrollment charter schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 37.10(c)(2), Penal Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(2) An offense under this section is a felony of the | ||
third degree if it is shown on the trial of the offense that the | ||
governmental record was: | ||
(A) a public school record, report, or assessment | ||
instrument required under Chapter 39, Education Code, data reported | ||
for a school district or open-enrollment charter school to the | ||
Texas Education Agency through the Public Education Information | ||
Management System (PEIMS) described by Section 42.006, Education | ||
Code, under a law or rule requiring that reporting, or [ |
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license, certificate, permit, seal, title, letter of patent, or | ||
similar document issued by government, by another state, or by the | ||
United States, unless the actor's intent is to defraud or harm | ||
another, in which event the offense is a felony of the second | ||
degree; | ||
(B) a written report of a medical, chemical, | ||
toxicological, ballistic, or other expert examination or test | ||
performed on physical evidence for the purpose of determining the | ||
connection or relevance of the evidence to a criminal action; or | ||
(C) a written report of the certification, | ||
inspection, or maintenance record of an instrument, apparatus, | ||
implement, machine, or other similar device used in the course of an | ||
examination or test performed on physical evidence for the purpose | ||
of determining the connection or relevance of the evidence to a | ||
criminal action. | ||
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. |