Bill Text: TX HB420 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the offense of providing an alcoholic beverage to a minor; increasing a criminal penalty.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB420 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB420-Comm_Sub.html

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88R20 MCK-F
By: Slawson H.B. No. 420

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the offense of providing an alcoholic beverage to a
minor; increasing a criminal penalty.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 106.06(a), Alcoholic Beverage Code, as
amended by Chapters 437 (S.B. 55) and 934 (H.B. 1445), Acts of the
73rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, is reenacted and amended
to read as follows:
(a) Except as provided in Subsection (b) [of this section],
a person commits an offense if the person [he] purchases an
alcoholic beverage for or gives or with criminal negligence makes
available an alcoholic beverage to a minor [with criminal
negligence].
SECTION 2. Section 106.06, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (c-1) to
read as follows:
(c) Except as provided by Subsection (c-1), an [An] offense
under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.
(c-1) An offense under this section is a state jail felony
if it is shown on the trial of the offense that the person purchased
an alcoholic beverage for or gave or made an alcoholic beverage
available to a minor who, as a result of the consumption of the
alcoholic beverage, caused another person to suffer serious bodily
injury or death.
SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply 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 when the offense was committed, and that law is
continued in effect for that purpose. For the purposes of this
section, an offense is committed before the effective date of this
Act if any element of the offense occurs before that date.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.