Bill Text: TX HB2032 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 2032 (Prior Session Legislation)

TX State Legislature page for HB2032

Bill Title: Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for certain offenses committed in a vehicle operated by a public transportation system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-10 - Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal [HB2032 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB2032-Comm_Sub.html

	85R21717 AJZ-F

	By: Gervin-Hawkins, et al.	H.B. No. 2032

	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2032:

	By: Moody	C.S.H.B. No. 2032



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to increasing the criminal penalty for certain offenses
	committed in a vehicle operated by a public transportation system.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 12, Penal Code, is amended
	by adding Section 12.501 to read as follows:
	Sec. 12.501. PENALTY IF OFFENSE COMMITTED IN PUBLIC
	TRANSPORTATION VEHICLE. (a) Subject to Subsection (c), the
	punishment for an offense described by Subsection (b) is increased
	to the punishment prescribed for the next higher category of
	offense if it is shown on the trial of the offense that the offense
	was committed in a vehicle operated by an authority created under
	Chapter 451, 452, 453, 457, 458, or 460, Transportation Code.
	(b) The increase in punishment authorized by this section
	applies only to an offense under Chapter 21, 22, or 29.
	(c) This section does not apply to an offense for which the
	punishment otherwise prescribed is the punishment for a first
	degree felony or capital felony.
	(d) For the purposes of this section, "vehicle" means a bus,
	a railcar, rolling stock, or other vehicle used by the public for
	mass transit purposes.
	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, 2017.