Bill Text: TX HB38 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
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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-Comm_Sub.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-Comm_Sub.html
By: Menendez (Senate Sponsor - Paxton) | H.B. No. 38 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 11, 2013; | ||
April 17, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Transportation; May 16, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; | ||
May 16, 2013, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 38 | By: Hancock |
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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 Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (e) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(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. | ||
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