Bill Text: TX HB4843 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to increasing the minimum term of imprisonment and changing the eligibility for community supervision and parole for certain felony offenses in which a firearm is used or exhibited, to certain consequences on conviction of certain of those offenses, and to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of unlawful possession of a firearm by a person convicted of a felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 24-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-28 - Motion withdrawn [HB4843 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB4843-Comm_Sub.html

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88R14279 EAS-F
By: Holland H.B. No. 4843

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of
unlawful possession of a firearm by a person convicted of a felony.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 46.04(e), Penal Code, is amended to read
as follows:
(e) An offense under Subsection (a) is a felony of the
second [third] degree with a minimum term of imprisonment of 10
years. An offense under Subsection (a-1), (b), or (c) is a Class A
misdemeanor.
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, 2023.