By: Carona S.B. No. 1103
(In the Senate - Filed March 2, 2011; March 16, 2011, read
first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
April 7, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
Nays 0; April 7, 2011, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the venue for prosecution of certain theft offenses.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Article 13.08, Code of Criminal
Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
(a) Where property is stolen in one county and removed [by
the offender] to another county, the offender may be prosecuted
either in the county in which [where he took] the property was
stolen or in any other county through or into which the property was
[he may have] removed [the same].
SECTION 2. This Act applies only to a criminal case in which
the indictment, information, or complaint is presented to the court
on or after the effective date of this Act. A criminal case in which
the indictment, information, or complaint was presented to the
court before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law
in effect when the indictment, information, or complaint was
presented, and the former law is continued in effect for that
purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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