Bill Text: TX HB3563 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to creating the criminal offense of tampering with an electronic monitoring device.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-10 - Referred to Criminal Justice [HB3563 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3563-Engrossed.html
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| By: Farrar | H.B. No. 3563 | |
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| relating to creating the criminal offense of tampering with an | ||
| electronic monitoring device. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 38, Penal Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Section 38.112 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 38.112. TAMPERING WITH ELECTRONIC MONITORING DEVICE. | ||
| (a) A person, other than a person who is civilly committed as a | ||
| sexually violent predator under Chapter 841, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, commits an offense if the person is required to submit to | ||
| electronic monitoring of the person's location as a condition of | ||
| release on parole or to mandatory supervision and knowingly removes | ||
| or disables a tracking device that the person is required to wear to | ||
| enable the electronic monitoring of the person's location. | ||
| (b) An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor | ||
| except that the offense is a Class A misdemeanor if the person: | ||
| (1) is required as a condition of release on parole or | ||
| to mandatory supervision to report to a parole officer as defined by | ||
| Section 508.001, Government Code; and | ||
| (2) after removing or disabling the tracking device, | ||
| knowingly fails to report as required on two consecutive occasions. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
