Bill Text: TX HB9 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the criminal punishment and conditions of community supervision for the offense of obstructing a highway or other passageway; increasing a criminal penalty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 21-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-01 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB9 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB9-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 9 | ||
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| relating to the criminal punishment and conditions of community | ||
| supervision for the offense of obstructing a highway or other | ||
| passageway; increasing a criminal penalty. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter K, Chapter 42A, Code of Criminal | ||
| Procedure, is amended by adding Article 42A.517 to read as follows: | ||
| Art. 42A.517. COMMUNITY SUPERVISION FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES | ||
| INVOLVING OBSTRUCTION OF HIGHWAY OR OTHER PASSAGEWAY. A court | ||
| granting community supervision to a defendant convicted of an | ||
| offense punishable as a state jail felony under Section 42.03, | ||
| Penal Code, shall require as a condition of community supervision | ||
| that the defendant submit to not less than 10 days of confinement in | ||
| a county jail. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 42.03(c), Penal Code, is amended to read | ||
| as follows: | ||
| (c) An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor, | ||
| except that the offense is a state jail felony if, in committing the | ||
| offense, the actor knowingly: | ||
| (1) prevents the passage of an authorized emergency | ||
| vehicle, as defined by Section 541.201, Transportation Code, that | ||
| is operating the vehicle's emergency audible or visual signals | ||
| required by Section 546.003, Transportation Code; or | ||
| (2) obstructs access to a hospital licensed under | ||
| Chapter 241, Health and Safety Code, or other health care facility | ||
| that provides emergency medical care, as defined by Section | ||
| 773.003, Health and Safety Code. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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 | ||
| 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 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 9 was passed by the House on May 6, | ||
| 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 90, Nays 55, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 9 was passed by the Senate on May 22, | ||
| 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 25, Nays 5. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
