Bill Text: TX HB1471 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 1471 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to enhancing the penalty prescribed for certain acts of official oppression.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-05 - Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar [HB1471 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB1471-Comm_Sub.html

	82R25394 E

	By: Miles	H.B. No. 1471

	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1471:

	By: Gallego	C.S.H.B. No. 1471



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	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, Penal Code, is amended by
	amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (e) to read as
	follows:
	(d) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor,
	unless at the time of the commission of the offense the actor was a
	licensed peace officer and the actor intentionally or knowingly
	caused bodily injury to another, in which event it is a felony of
	the third degree.
	(e) If conduct constituting an offense under this section
	also constitutes an offense under another section of this code, the
	actor may be prosecuted under either section or both sections.
	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
	covered by the law in effect when 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, 2011.