Bill Text: TX HB38 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Relating to the penalty for an offense involving motor vehicle airbags.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB38 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB38-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Relating to the penalty for an offense involving motor vehicle airbags.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB38 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB38-Engrossed.html
By: Menendez | H.B. No. 38 |
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relating to the penalty for an offense involving motor vehicle | ||
airbags. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 547.614, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
by amending Subsections (a-2) and (b) and adding Subsection (e) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a-2) A person commits an offense if the person: | ||
(1) knowingly or recklessly makes or sells a | ||
counterfeit airbag to be installed in a motor vehicle; | ||
(2) intentionally alters an airbag that is not | ||
counterfeit in a manner that causes the airbag to not meet all | ||
applicable federal safety regulations for an airbag designed to be | ||
installed in a vehicle of a particular make, model, and year; | ||
(3) represents to another person that a counterfeit | ||
airbag installed in a motor vehicle is not counterfeit; [ |
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(4) knowingly or recklessly sells a motor vehicle in | ||
which an airbag is not installed without clearly disclosing that | ||
the vehicle does not have an airbag; or | ||
(5) causes another person to violate Subsection (a-1) | ||
or Subdivision (1), (2), [ |
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or assists a person in | ||
violating Subsection (a-1) or Subdivision (1), (2), [ |
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(4). | ||
(b) Except as provided by Subsections (c), [ |
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(e), an offense under this section is a state jail felony [ |
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(e) An offense under this section is a felony of the first | ||
degree if it is shown on the trial of the offense that the offense | ||
resulted in the death of a person. | ||
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 | ||
covered 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. |