Bill Text: TX HB1533 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the prosecution of organized criminal activity involving a controlled substance or dangerous drug.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-25 - No action taken in committee [HB1533 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1533-Introduced.html
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| By: Lozano | H.B. No. 1533 | |
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| relating to the prosecution of organized criminal activity | ||
| involving a controlled substance or dangerous drug. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 71.02(a), Penal Code, is amended to read | ||
| as follows: | ||
| (a) A person commits an offense if, with the intent to | ||
| establish, maintain, or participate in a combination or in the | ||
| profits of a combination or as a member of a criminal street gang, | ||
| the person commits or conspires to commit one or more of the | ||
| following: | ||
| (1) murder, capital murder, arson, aggravated | ||
| robbery, robbery, burglary, theft, aggravated kidnapping, | ||
| kidnapping, aggravated assault, aggravated sexual assault, sexual | ||
| assault, continuous sexual abuse of young child or disabled | ||
| individual, solicitation of a minor, forgery, deadly conduct, | ||
| assault punishable as a Class A misdemeanor, burglary of a motor | ||
| vehicle, or unauthorized use of a motor vehicle; | ||
| (2) any gambling offense punishable as a Class A | ||
| misdemeanor; | ||
| (3) promotion of prostitution, aggravated promotion | ||
| of prostitution, or compelling prostitution; | ||
| (4) unlawful manufacture, transportation, repair, or | ||
| sale of firearms or prohibited weapons; | ||
| (5) unlawful manufacture, delivery, dispensation, or | ||
| distribution of a controlled substance or dangerous drug, or | ||
| unlawful possession of a controlled substance or dangerous drug: | ||
| (A) through forgery, fraud, misrepresentation, | ||
| or deception; or | ||
| (B) with the intent to deliver the controlled | ||
| substance or dangerous drug; | ||
| (5-a) causing the unlawful delivery, dispensation, or | ||
| distribution of a controlled substance or dangerous drug in | ||
| violation of Subtitle B, Title 3, Occupations Code; | ||
| (6) any unlawful wholesale promotion or possession of | ||
| any obscene material or obscene device with the intent to wholesale | ||
| promote the same; | ||
| (7) any offense under Subchapter B, Chapter 43, | ||
| depicting or involving conduct by or directed toward a child | ||
| younger than 18 years of age; | ||
| (8) any felony offense under Chapter 32; | ||
| (9) any offense under Chapter 36; | ||
| (10) any offense under Chapter 34, 35, or 35A; | ||
| (11) any offense under Section 37.11(a); | ||
| (12) any offense under Chapter 20A; | ||
| (13) any offense under Section 37.10; | ||
| (14) any offense under Section 38.06, 38.07, 38.09, or | ||
| 38.11; | ||
| (15) any offense under Section 42.10; | ||
| (16) any offense under Section 46.06(a)(1) or 46.14; | ||
| (17) any offense under Section 20.05 or 20.06; | ||
| (18) any offense under Section 16.02; or | ||
| (19) any offense classified as a felony under the Tax | ||
| Code. | ||
| 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 was | ||
| committed before that date. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
