Bill Text: TX HB55 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the punishment for the criminal offense of indecent assault; increasing a criminal penalty.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB55 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB55-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the punishment for the criminal offense of indecent assault; increasing a criminal penalty.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB55 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB55-Introduced.html
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By: Johnson of Dallas | H.B. No. 55 |
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relating to the punishment for the criminal offense of indecent | ||
assault; increasing a criminal penalty. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 22.012, Penal Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (d) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor, | ||
except that the offense is: | ||
(1) a state jail felony if it is shown on the trial of | ||
the offense that: | ||
(A) the defendant has been previously convicted | ||
of an offense under this section, other than an offense punishable | ||
under Paragraph (B); or | ||
(B) the defendant is a health care services | ||
provider or a mental health services provider and the act is: | ||
(i) committed during the course of | ||
providing a treatment or service to the victim; and | ||
(ii) beyond the scope of generally accepted | ||
practices for the treatment or service; or | ||
(2) a felony of the third degree if it is shown on the | ||
trial of the offense that the defendant has been previously | ||
convicted of an offense under this section that is punishable under | ||
Subdivision (1)(B). | ||
(d) In this section, "health care services provider" and | ||
"mental health services provider" have the meanings assigned by | ||
Section 22.011. | ||
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply 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 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 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |