83R484 NAJ-D
By: Guillen H.B. No. 61
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the punishment for the offense of arson.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 28.02(d), Penal Code, is amended to read
as follows:
(d) An offense under Subsection (a) is a felony of the
second degree, except that the offense is a felony of the first
degree if it is shown on the trial of the offense that:
(1) bodily injury or death was suffered by any person
by reason of the commission of the offense; or
(2) the property intended to be damaged or destroyed
by the actor was:
(A) a habitation or a place of assembly or
worship;
(B) an agricultural facility in which the primary
purpose is raising, growing, or otherwise caring for livestock in
confinement for the production of food, including a beef cattle
feedlot, milk cow dairy, egg and poultry operation, swine breeding
or growing farm, livestock auction yard, or slaughterhouse; or
(C) located in a state park.
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.