Bill Text: TX HB2725 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for using certain materially false or misleading statements in the commission of the offense of fraudulent use or possession of identifying information.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-15 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2725 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2725-Comm_Sub.html
87R9284 TSS-D | ||
By: Martinez Fischer, Guillen | H.B. No. 2725 |
|
||
|
||
relating to increasing the criminal penalty for using certain | ||
materially false or misleading statements in the commission of the | ||
offense of fraudulent use or possession of identifying information. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 32.51(c-1), Penal Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c-1) An offense described for purposes of punishment by | ||
Subsections (c)(1)-(3) is increased to the next higher category of | ||
offense if it is shown on the trial of the offense that: | ||
(1) the offense was committed against an elderly | ||
individual as defined by Section 22.04; [ |
||
(2) the actor fraudulently used identifying | ||
information with the intent to facilitate an offense under Article | ||
62.102, Code of Criminal Procedure; or | ||
(3) the actor used a materially false or misleading | ||
statement regarding the availability, provision, or distribution | ||
of a vaccine to obtain the identifying information. | ||
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, 2021. |