83R9327 RWG-F
By: Fletcher H.B. No. 2986
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to certain solicitations of professional employment for
the provision of legal services; creating an offense.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 38.12, Penal Code, is amended by adding
Subsection (d-1) and amending Subsections (g) and (h) to read as
follows:
(d-1) A person commits an offense if:
(1) the person, with the intent to obtain professional
employment for the person or another person, solicits or causes to
be solicited, in person or by telephone, employment that relates to
the provision of legal services involving the solicited person; and
(2) the person obtained the information used to make
the solicitation described by Subdivision (1) from personal
information contained in a citation for a violation of Subtitle C,
Title 7, Transportation code, issued to the solicited person.
(g) Except as provided by Subsection (h), an offense under
Subsection (d) or (d-1) is a Class A misdemeanor.
(h) An offense under Subsection (d) or (d-1) is a felony of
the third degree if it is shown on the trial of the offense that the
defendant has previously been convicted under either Subsection (d)
or (d-1).
SECTION 2. Section 38.12(d-1), Penal Code, as added 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 that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before the
effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
before that date.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.