Bill Text: TX HB222 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 222 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the offense of continuous violence against the family.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-10 - Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence [HB222 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB222-Introduced.html

	84R205 JSC-D

	By: Guillen	H.B. No. 222



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the offense of continuous violence against the family.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Sections 25.11(a) and (b), Penal Code, are
	amended to read as follows:
	(a) A person commits an offense if, during a period that is
	24 [12] months or less in duration, the person two or more times
	engages in conduct that constitutes an offense under Section
	22.01(a)(1) against another person or persons whose relationship to
	or association with the defendant is described by Section
	71.0021(b), 71.003, or 71.005, Family Code.
	(b) If the jury is the trier of fact, members of the jury are
	not required to agree unanimously on the specific conduct in which
	the defendant engaged that constituted an offense under Section
	22.01(a)(1) against the person or persons described by Subsection
	(a) or the exact date when that conduct occurred. The jury must
	agree unanimously that the defendant, during a period that is 24
	[12] months or less in duration, two or more times engaged in
	conduct that constituted an offense under Section 22.01(a)(1)
	against the person or persons described by Subsection (a).
	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, 2015.