Bill Text: TX HB2986 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 2986 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to certain solicitations of professional employment for the provision of legal services; creating an offense.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-19 - Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence [HB2986 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB2986-Introduced.html

	83R9327 RWG-F

	By: Fletcher	H.B. No. 2986



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to certain solicitations of professional employment for
	the provision of legal services; creating an offense.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 38.12, Penal Code, is amended by adding
	Subsection (d-1) and amending Subsections (g) and (h) to read as
	follows:
	(d-1) A person commits an offense if:
	(1) the person, with the intent to obtain professional
	employment for the person or another person, solicits or causes to
	be solicited, in person or by telephone, employment that relates to
	the provision of legal services involving the solicited person; and
	(2) the person obtained the information used to make
	the solicitation described by Subdivision (1) from personal
	information contained in a citation for a violation of Subtitle C,
	Title 7, Transportation code, issued to the solicited person.
	(g) Except as provided by Subsection (h), an offense under
	Subsection (d) or (d-1) is a Class A misdemeanor.
	(h) An offense under Subsection (d) or (d-1) is a felony of
	the third degree if it is shown on the trial of the offense that the
	defendant has previously been convicted under either Subsection (d)
	or (d-1).
	SECTION 2. Section 38.12(d-1), Penal Code, as added 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 covered by the law in effect when the offense was
	committed, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before the
	effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
	before that date.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.