83R10003 JRR-D
By: Wu H.B. No. 2228
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the applicability of the exception to prosecution for
the offense of abandoning or endangering a child.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 22.041(h), Penal Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(h) It is an exception to the application of Subsection (b)
[this section] that the actor voluntarily delivered the child to a
designated emergency infant care provider under Section 262.302,
Family 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 occurred
before that date.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.