Bill Text: TX HB2577 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 2577

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the punishment for the offense of indecent exposure; increasing a criminal penalty.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-13 - Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence [HB2577 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB2577-Introduced.html

	88R10986 SHH-D

	By: Cook	H.B. No. 2577



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the punishment for the offense of indecent exposure;
	increasing a criminal penalty.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 21.08, Penal Code, is amended by
	amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
	follows:
	(b) An offense under this section is a Class A [B]
	misdemeanor, except that the offense is a state jail felony if it is
	shown on the trial of the offense that the defendant has been
	previously convicted of an offense under this section.
	(c) For purposes of Subsection (b):
	(1) a defendant has been previously convicted under
	this section if the defendant was adjudged guilty of the offense or
	entered a plea of guilty or nolo contendere in return for a grant of
	deferred adjudication community supervision, regardless of whether
	a sentence for the offense was ever imposed on conviction or whether
	the defendant successfully completed a period of supervision in
	relation to the offense; and
	(2) a conviction under the laws of another state for an
	offense containing elements that are substantially similar to the
	elements of an offense under this section is a conviction of an
	offense under this section.
	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.