Bill Text: TX HB4520 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to employment and retirement consequences for an educator convicted of or placed on deferred adjudication community supervision for the sale, distribution, or display of harmful material to a minor.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 13-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB4520 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4520-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to employment and retirement consequences for an educator convicted of or placed on deferred adjudication community supervision for the sale, distribution, or display of harmful material to a minor.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 13-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB4520 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4520-Comm_Sub.html
By: Harris of Anderson, et al. | H.B. No. 4520 | |
(Senate Sponsor - Bettencourt) | ||
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 2, 2023; | ||
May 4, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance; | ||
May 18, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 16, | ||
Nays 1; May 18, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE VOTE | ||
YeaNayAbsentPNV | ||
HuffmanX | ||
HinojosaX | ||
BettencourtX | ||
CampbellX | ||
CreightonX | ||
FloresX | ||
HallX | ||
HancockX | ||
HughesX | ||
KolkhorstX | ||
NicholsX | ||
PaxtonX | ||
PerryX | ||
SchwertnerX | ||
WestX | ||
WhitmireX | ||
ZaffiriniX | ||
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relating to employment and retirement consequences for an educator | ||
convicted of or placed on deferred adjudication community | ||
supervision for the sale, distribution, or display of harmful | ||
material to a minor. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article 42.018(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) This article applies only to: | ||
(1) conviction or deferred adjudication community | ||
supervision granted on the basis of an offense for which a | ||
conviction or grant of deferred adjudication community supervision | ||
requires the defendant to register as a sex offender under Chapter | ||
62; [ |
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(2) conviction of an offense under Title 5, Penal | ||
Code, if the victim of the offense was under 18 years of age at the | ||
time the offense was committed; or | ||
(3) conviction or deferred adjudication community | ||
supervision granted on the basis of an offense under Section 43.24, | ||
Penal Code. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 21.058(a), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) The procedures described by Subsections (b) and (c) | ||
apply only to: | ||
(1) [ |
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adjudication community supervision for an offense for which a | ||
defendant is required to register as a sex offender under Chapter | ||
62, Code of Criminal Procedure; [ |
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(2) [ |
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Penal Code, if the victim of the offense was under 18 years of age at | ||
the time the offense was committed; or | ||
(3) conviction of or placement on deferred | ||
adjudication community supervision for an offense under Section | ||
43.24, Penal Code. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 824.009(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) In this section, "qualifying felony" means an offense | ||
that is punishable as a felony under the following sections of the | ||
Penal Code: | ||
(1) Section 21.02 (continuous sexual abuse of young | ||
child or disabled individual); | ||
(2) Section 21.12 (improper relationship between | ||
educator and student); [ |
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(3) Section 22.011 (sexual assault) or Section 22.021 | ||
(aggravated sexual assault); or | ||
(4) Section 43.24 (sale, distribution, or display of | ||
harmful material to minor). | ||
SECTION 4. (a) Article 42.018, Code of Criminal Procedure, | ||
as amended by this Act, applies only to a judgment of conviction or | ||
order granting deferred adjudication community supervision entered | ||
on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
(b) Section 824.009, Government Code, as amended by this | ||
Act, applies only to an offense committed on or after the effective | ||
date of this Act. An offense committed before that date 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 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
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