Bill Text: TX SB754 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for causing bodily injury while resisting arrest, search, or transportation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-01 - Referred to Criminal Justice [SB754 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB754-Introduced.html
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By: Flores | S.B. No. 754 |
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relating to increasing 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 occurred | ||
before that date. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |