Bill Text: TX HB1669 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to increasing the punishment for subsequent convictions for indecent exposure.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-09 - Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence [HB1669 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1669-Introduced.html
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By: Anderson of Dallas | H.B. No. 1669 |
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relating to increasing the punishment for subsequent convictions | ||
for indecent exposure. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 21.08, Penal Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(b) An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor, | ||
except that the offense is a state jail felony if it is shown on the | ||
trial of the offense that the defendant has been previously | ||
convicted two or more times of an offense under this section. | ||
(c) For purposes of Subsection (b), a defendant has been | ||
previously convicted under this section if the defendant was | ||
adjudged guilty of the offense or entered a plea of guilty or nolo | ||
contendere in return for a grant of deferred adjudication, | ||
regardless of whether the sentence for the offense was ever imposed | ||
or whether the sentence was probated and the defendant was | ||
subsequently discharged from community supervision. | ||
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, 2015. |