81R10387 GCB-D
By: Pierson H.B. No. 2831
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the offense of improper relationship between educator
and student.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 21.12(a), Penal Code, is amended to read
as follows:
(a) An employee of a public or private primary or secondary
school commits an offense if the employee engages in:
(1) sexual contact, sexual intercourse, or deviate
sexual intercourse with a person who is enrolled in a public or
private primary or secondary school [at which the employee works]
and [who] is not the employee's spouse; or
(2) conduct described by Section 33.021, with a person
described by Subdivision (1), regardless of the age of that person.
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
covered by the law in effect when 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, 2009.