Bill Text: TX SB486 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual when committed in a disaster area or evacuated area.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-02-03 - Referred to Criminal Justice [SB486 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-SB486-Introduced.html

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89R1733 RDR-D
By: Alvarado, Hinojosa S.B. No. 486

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of
injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual when
committed in a disaster area or evacuated area.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 12.50(b), Penal Code, is amended to read
as follows:
(b) The increase in punishment authorized by this section
applies only to an offense under:
(1) Section 20.05;
(2) Section 20.06;
(3) Section 20.07;
(4) Section 22.01;
(5) Section 22.04;
(6) [(5)] Section 28.02;
(7) [(6)] Section 29.02;
(8) [(7)] Section 30.02;
(9) [(8)] Section 30.03;
(10) [(9)] Section 30.04;
(11) [(10)] Section 30.05; and
(12) [(11)] Section 31.03.
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, 2025.