Bill Text: TX SB436 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 436 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to the punishment for the offense of purchasing or selling human organs; increasing a criminal penalty.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-23 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB436 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB436-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Middleton	S.B. No. 436
	(In the Senate - Filed January 12, 2023; February 15, 2023,
	read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
	April 26, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6,
	Nays 0; April 26, 2023, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to the punishment for the offense of purchasing or selling
	human organs; increasing a criminal penalty.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 48.02(d), Penal Code, is amended to read
	as follows:
	(d) An offense under [~~A violation of~~] this section is a
	state jail felony [~~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 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 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.

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