82R3662 GCB-D
By: Davis S.B. No. 535
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the persons who may be prosecuted for 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];
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
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, 2011.