Bill Text: TX HB265 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-25 - Left pending in committee [HB265 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB265-Introduced.html

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84R1226 JSC-D
By: Miles H.B. No. 265

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,
except that an offense is a felony of the third degree if:
(1) the public servant acted with the intent to impair
the accuracy of data reported to the Texas Education Agency through
the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS)
described by Section 42.006, Education Code, under a law requiring
that reporting; or
(2) the public servant at the time of the commission of
the offense was a licensed peace officer who knowingly caused
bodily injury to another.
(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
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.