Bill Text: TX HB705 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the definition of emergency services personnel for purposes of the enhanced penalty prescribed for an assault committed against a person providing services in that capacity.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB705 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB705-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 705 |
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relating to the definition of emergency services personnel for | ||
purposes of the enhanced penalty prescribed for an assault | ||
committed against a person providing services in that capacity. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 22.01(e)(1), Penal Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(1) "Emergency services personnel" includes | ||
firefighters, emergency medical services personnel as defined by | ||
Section 773.003, Health and Safety Code, emergency room personnel, | ||
and other individuals who, in the course and scope of employment or | ||
as a volunteer, provide services for the benefit of the general | ||
public during emergency situations. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 705 was passed by the House on May 9, | ||
2013, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 705 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
21, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |