Bill Text: TX SB1267 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the punishment for the criminal offense of operation of a stash house; increasing a criminal penalty.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-23 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB1267 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1267-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the punishment for the criminal offense of operation of a stash house; increasing a criminal penalty.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-23 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB1267 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1267-Comm_Sub.html
By: Parker | S.B. No. 1267 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 27, 2023; March 9, 2023, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; | ||
April 26, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, | ||
Nays 0; April 26, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the punishment for the criminal offense of operation of | ||
a stash house; increasing a criminal penalty. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 20.07(b), Penal Code, is amended to read | ||
as follows: | ||
(b) An offense under this section is a felony of the third | ||
degree, except that the offense is a felony of the second degree if | ||
it is shown on the trial of the offense that as a direct result of | ||
the commission of the offense: | ||
(1) an individual became a victim of sexual assault, | ||
as defined by Section 22.011, or aggravated sexual assault, as | ||
defined by Section 22.021; or | ||
(2) an individual suffered serious bodily injury or | ||
death [ |
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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 the | ||
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. | ||
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