Bill Text: TX HB1686 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the application for and duration of a protective order for victims of certain offenses; enhancing a criminal penalty.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-13 - Referred to Criminal Justice [HB1686 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB1686-Introduced.html

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86R9469 JSC-D
By: Smith H.B. No. 1686

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the application for and duration of a protective order
for victims of certain offenses; enhancing a criminal penalty.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Article 7A.01, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
(a-1) If an application has not yet been filed in the case
under Subsection (a), the attorney representing the state shall
promptly file an application for a protective order with respect to
each victim of an offense listed in Subdivision (1) or (2) of that
subsection following the offender's conviction of or placement on
deferred adjudication community supervision for the offense.
SECTION 2. Article 7A.03, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) An offender's conviction of or placement on deferred
adjudication community supervision for an offense listed in Article
7A.01(a)(1) or (2) constitutes reasonable grounds under Subsection
(a).
SECTION 3. Article 7A.07, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
(a-1) The court shall issue a protective order effective for
the duration of the lives of the offender and victim if the offender
is convicted of or placed on deferred adjudication community
supervision for an offense listed in Article 7A.01(a)(1) or (2).
SECTION 4. Section 25.07(g), Penal Code, is amended to read
as follows:
(g) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor,
except the offense is:
(1) subject to Subdivision (2), a state jail felony if
it is shown at the trial of the offense that the defendant violated
an order issued as a result of an application filed under Article
7A.01(a-1); or
(2) a felony of the third degree if it is shown on the
trial of the offense that the defendant:
(A) [(1)] has previously been convicted two or
more times of an offense under this section or two or more times of
an offense under Section 25.072, or has previously been convicted
of an offense under this section and an offense under Section
25.072; or
(B) [(2)] has violated the order or condition of
bond by committing an assault or the offense of stalking.
SECTION 5. The changes in law made by this Act to Chapter
7A, Code of Criminal Procedure, apply only to a judgment of
conviction entered on or after the effective date of this Act or a
grant of deferred adjudication community supervision made on or
after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.