Bill Text: TX HB4124 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the prosecution of the offenses of terroristic threat and unlawful possession of a firearm; creating a criminal offense.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-21 - Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence [HB4124 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4124-Introduced.html
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By: Martinez Fischer | H.B. No. 4124 |
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relating to the prosecution of the offenses of terroristic threat | ||
and unlawful possession of a firearm; creating a criminal offense. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 22.07, Penal Code, is amended by adding | ||
Subsections (a-1) and (e-1) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly | ||
sends a written message, including a text message, e-mail, social | ||
media post, or other similar communication, to another: | ||
(1) in which the actor threatens to cause bodily | ||
injury to another person, including a threat to commit a mass | ||
shooting or other act of terrorism; and | ||
(2) that would cause a reasonable person to fear that | ||
the actor might cause bodily injury to another. | ||
(e-1) An offense under Subsection (a-1) is a Class A | ||
misdemeanor. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 46.04(b), Penal Code, is amended to read | ||
as follows: | ||
(b) A person who has been convicted of an offense under | ||
Section 22.01, punishable as a Class A misdemeanor and involving a | ||
member of the person's family or household, or an offense under | ||
Section 22.07(a-1), commits an offense if the person possesses a | ||
firearm before the fifth anniversary of the later of: | ||
(1) the date of the person's release from confinement | ||
following conviction of an offense described by this subsection | ||
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(2) the date of the person's release from community | ||
supervision following conviction of an offense described by this | ||
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SECTION 3. 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 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |