Bill Text: TX HB265 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 265 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to enhancing the penalty prescribed for certain acts of official oppression.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-25 - Left pending in committee [HB265 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB265-Introduced.html

	84R1226 JSC-D

	By: Miles	H.B. No. 265



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to enhancing the penalty prescribed for certain acts of
	official oppression.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 39.03, Penal Code, is amended by
	amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (e) to read as
	follows:
	(d) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor,
	except that an offense is a felony of the third degree if:
	(1) the public servant acted with the intent to impair
	the accuracy of data reported to the Texas Education Agency through
	the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS)
	described by Section 42.006, Education Code, under a law requiring
	that reporting; or
	(2) the public servant at the time of the commission of
	the offense was a licensed peace officer who knowingly caused
	bodily injury to another.
	(e) If conduct constituting an offense under this section
	also constitutes an offense under another section of this code, the
	actor may be prosecuted under either section or both sections.
	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.