Bill Text: TX HB925 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to enhancing the penalty prescribed for certain acts of official oppression.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-05 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB925 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB925-Introduced.html
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| By: Moody | H.B. No. 925 | |
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| relating to enhancing the penalty prescribed for certain acts of | ||
| official oppression. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 39.03(d), Penal Code, is amended to read | ||
| as follows: | ||
| (d) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor, | ||
| except that an offense is a felony of the third degree if the public | ||
| servant acted with the intent to impair the accuracy of data | ||
| reported to the Texas Education Agency through the Public Education | ||
| Information Management System (PEIMS) described by Section 42.006, | ||
| Education Code, under a law requiring that reporting. | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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, 2013. | ||
