Bill Text: TX HB266 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced


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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-16 - Left pending in committee [HB266 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB266-Introduced.html
  83R1875 JSC-D
 
  By: Miles H.B. No. 266
 
 
 
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,
  unless at the time of the commission of the offense the actor was a
  licensed peace officer who knowingly caused bodily injury to
  another, in which event it is a felony of the third degree.
         (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, 2013.
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