Bill Text: TX SB787 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to increasing the minimum term of imprisonment for certain felony offenses in which a firearm is used or exhibited.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-13 - Co-author authorized [SB787 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB787-Introduced.html
  88R6689 EAS-D
 
  By: Huffman S.B. No. 787
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to increasing the minimum term of imprisonment for certain
  felony offenses in which a firearm is used or exhibited.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 12, Penal Code, is amended
  by adding Section 12.502 to read as follows:
         Sec. 12.502.  PENALTY FOR CERTAIN FELONY OFFENSES COMMITTED
  WITH FIREARM. (a) The minimum term of imprisonment for a first,
  second, or third degree felony listed in Article 42A.054(a), Code
  of Criminal Procedure, is increased to 10 years if an affirmative
  finding has been entered in the judgment in the case under Article
  42A.054(d), Code of Criminal Procedure.
         (b)  Subsection (a) does not apply to a felony offense for
  which the punishment otherwise required by law includes a minimum
  term of imprisonment that exceeds 10 years.
         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, 2023.
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