Bill Text: TX SB2006 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to creating the criminal offense of possession of an animal by a person who has been previously convicted of an offense involving animal cruelty.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-21 - Referred to Criminal Justice [SB2006 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB2006-Introduced.html
  86R7301 SCL-D
 
  By: Lucio S.B. No. 2006
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to creating the criminal offense of possession of an
  animal by a person who has been previously convicted of an offense
  involving animal cruelty.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 42, Penal Code, is amended by adding
  Section 42.107 to read as follows:
         Sec. 42.107.  POSSESSION OF ANIMAL BY PERSON CONVICTED OF
  ANIMAL CRUELTY. (a) A person commits an offense if the person:
               (1)  possesses or exercises control over an animal or
  resides in a household  in which an animal is present; and
               (2)  has been previously convicted of an offense under:
                     (A)  Section 42.09, 42.091, 42.092, 42.10, or
  42.105; or 
                     (B)  federal law or a penal law of another state
  containing elements that are substantially similar to the elements
  of an offense described by Paragraph (A).
         (b)  An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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