Bill Text: TX HB9 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 9 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to the criminal punishment and conditions of community supervision for the offense of obstructing a highway or other passageway; increasing a criminal penalty.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 21-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-06-01 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB9 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB9-Introduced.html

	87R10963 TYPED

	By: Klick	H.B. No. 9



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the criminal punishment and conditions of community
	supervision for the offense of obstructing a highway or other
	passageway; increasing a criminal penalty.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter K, Chapter 42A, Code of Criminal
	Procedure, is amended by adding Article 42A.517 to read as follows:
	Art. 42A.517. COMMUNITY SUPERVISION FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES
	INVOLVING OBSTRUCTION OF HIGHWAY OR OTHER PASSAGEWAY. A court
	granting community supervision to a defendant convicted of an
	offense punishable as a state jail felony under Section 42.03,
	Penal Code, shall require as a condition of community supervision
	that the defendant submit to not less than 10 days of confinement in
	a county jail.
	SECTION 2. Section 42.03(c), Penal Code, is amended to read
	as follows:
	(c) An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor,
	except that the offense is a state jail felony if, in committing the
	offense, the actor knowingly:
	(1) prevents the passage of an authorized emergency
	vehicle, as defined by Section 541.201, Transportation Code, that
	is operating the vehicle's emergency audible or visual signals; or
	(2) obstructs access to a hospital licensed under
	Chapter 241, Health and Safety Code, or other health care facility
	that provides emergency medical care, as defined by Section
	773.003, Health and Safety Code.
	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 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, 2021.