Bill Text: TX HB2192 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for election fraud.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-09 - Referred to Elections [HB2192 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB2192-Introduced.html
  88R9474 TSS-F
 
  By: Murr H.B. No. 2192
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to increasing the criminal penalty for election fraud.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 276.013(b), Election Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (b)  An offense under this section is a state jail felony 
  [Class A misdemeanor, unless:
               [(1)  the person committed the offense while acting in
  the person's capacity as an elected official, in which case the
  offense is a state jail felony; or
               [(2)  the person is convicted of an attempt, in which
  case the offense is a Class B misdemeanor].
         SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act apply 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, 2023.
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