Bill Text: TX SB2209 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to enhancing the criminal penalty for causing bodily injury while resisting arrest, search, or transportation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-21 - Referred to Criminal Justice [SB2209 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2209-Introduced.html
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| By: Flores | S.B. No. 2209 | |
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| relating to enhancing the criminal penalty for causing bodily | ||
| injury while resisting arrest, search, or transportation. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 38.03(d), Penal Code, is amended to read | ||
| as follows: | ||
| (d) An offense under this section is: | ||
| (1) a state jail felony if the actor's use of force | ||
| causes bodily injury to the peace officer or another person; and | ||
| (2) a felony of the third degree if the actor uses a | ||
| deadly weapon to resist the arrest or search. | ||
| 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 was | ||
| committed before that date. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
