Bill Text: TX SB714 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of capital murder.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-01 - Co-author authorized [SB714 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB714-Introduced.html
86R8479 TSS-F | ||
By: Fallon, Nelson | S.B. No. 714 |
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relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of capital | ||
murder. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 19.03, Penal Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(a) A person commits an offense if the person commits murder | ||
as defined under Section 19.02(b)(1) and: | ||
(1) the person murders a peace officer, [ |
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or emergency medical services personnel who is acting in the lawful | ||
discharge of an official duty and who the person knows is a peace | ||
officer, [ |
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(2) the person intentionally commits the murder in the | ||
course of committing or attempting to commit kidnapping, burglary, | ||
robbery, aggravated sexual assault, arson, obstruction or | ||
retaliation, or terroristic threat under Section 22.07(a)(1), (3), | ||
(4), (5), or (6); | ||
(3) the person commits the murder for remuneration or | ||
the promise of remuneration or employs another to commit the murder | ||
for remuneration or the promise of remuneration; | ||
(4) the person commits the murder while escaping or | ||
attempting to escape from a penal institution; | ||
(5) the person, while incarcerated in a penal | ||
institution, murders another: | ||
(A) who is employed in the operation of the penal | ||
institution; or | ||
(B) with the intent to establish, maintain, or | ||
participate in a combination or in the profits of a combination; | ||
(6) the person: | ||
(A) while incarcerated for an offense under this | ||
section or Section 19.02, murders another; or | ||
(B) while serving a sentence of life imprisonment | ||
or a term of 99 years for an offense under Section 20.04, 22.021, or | ||
29.03, murders another; | ||
(7) the person murders more than one person: | ||
(A) during the same criminal transaction; or | ||
(B) during different criminal transactions but | ||
the murders are committed pursuant to the same scheme or course of | ||
conduct; | ||
(8) the person murders an individual under 10 years of | ||
age; or | ||
(9) the person murders another person in retaliation | ||
for or on account of the service or status of the other person as a | ||
judge or justice of the supreme court, the court of criminal | ||
appeals, a court of appeals, a district court, a criminal district | ||
court, a constitutional county court, a statutory county court, a | ||
justice court, or a municipal court. | ||
(d) In this section, "emergency medical services personnel" | ||
has the meaning assigned by Section 773.003, Health and Safety | ||
Code. | ||
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. |