83R757 NAJ-F
By: Herrero H.B. No. 3056
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the penalty for the offense of leaving the scene of an
accident that involves personal injury or death.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 550.021, Transportation Code, is amended
by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (d) to read as
follows:
(c) A person commits an offense if the person does not stop
or does not comply with the requirements of this section. Except
as provided by Subsection (d), an [An] offense under this section:
(1) involving an accident resulting in death of or
serious bodily injury, as defined by Section 1.07, Penal Code, to a
person is a felony of the third degree; and
(2) involving an accident resulting in injury to which
Subdivision (1) does not apply is punishable by:
(A) imprisonment in the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice for not more than five years or confinement in the
county jail for not more than one year;
(B) a fine not to exceed $5,000; or
(C) both the fine and the imprisonment or
confinement.
(d) If it is shown on the trial of an offense under this
section that, at the time of an accident described by Subsection
(a), the person is released on parole or to mandatory supervision,
is placed on community supervision, including deferred
adjudication community supervision, has been previously convicted
two or more times of a felony, or is driving during a period that the
person's driver's license or privilege is suspended or revoked, the
offense under this section:
(1) involving an accident resulting in death of or
serious bodily injury, as defined by Section 1.07, Penal Code, to a
person is a felony of the second degree; and
(2) involving an accident resulting in injury to which
Subdivision (1) does not apply is punishable by:
(A) imprisonment in the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice for not less than 2 years and not more than 20
years;
(B) a fine not to exceed $10,000; or
(C) both the fine and the imprisonment.
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.