Bill Text: TX HB37 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the creation of the criminal offense of mail theft.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB37 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB37-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the creation of the criminal offense of mail theft.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB37 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB37-Introduced.html
86R3104 JRR-D | ||
By: Minjarez | H.B. No. 37 |
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relating to the creation of the criminal offense of mail theft. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 31, Penal Code, is amended by adding | ||
Section 31.20 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 31.20. MAIL THEFT. (a) In this section, "mail" means | ||
a letter, postal card, package, bag, or other sealed article sent | ||
through a common carrier and addressed to a person other than the | ||
sender. | ||
(b) A person commits an offense if, without the effective | ||
consent of the applicable addressee and with the intent to deprive | ||
that addressee of the mail, the person appropriates pieces of mail | ||
that, in the aggregate, are addressed to at least three persons | ||
other than the actor. | ||
(c) An offense under this section is: | ||
(1) a state jail felony if 10 or fewer pieces of mail | ||
are appropriated; | ||
(2) a felony of the third degree if more than 10 but | ||
fewer than 50 pieces of mail are appropriated; or | ||
(3) a felony of the second degree if 50 or more pieces | ||
of mail are appropriated. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |