Bill Text: TX HB2679 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the use of certain previous convictions for enhancing the penalty for certain subsequent offenses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-23 - Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence [HB2679 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB2679-Introduced.html
  85R7668 JSC-D
 
  By: Canales H.B. No. 2679
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the use of certain previous convictions for enhancing
  the penalty for certain subsequent offenses.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 12, Penal Code, is amended
  by adding Section 12.415 to read as follows:
         Sec. 12.415.  CLASSIFICATION OF CERTAIN PREVIOUS OFFENSES
  FOR PURPOSES OF SUBSEQUENT ENHANCEMENT. (a) This section applies
  only to an offense for which the penalty was enhanced as the result
  of a previous conviction under the terms of a provision other than a
  provision under this subchapter.
         (b)  A defendant's conviction of an offense described by
  Subsection (a) may be used to enhance the penalty for a subsequent
  offense for purposes of this subchapter based only on the class or
  degree of offense otherwise applicable to the offense described by
  Subsection (a) if the state had not proved the previous conviction.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to the enhancement of punishment under Subchapter D, Chapter 12,
  Penal Code, for 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, 2017.
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