| 1 | | - | By: Phelan, Fallon (Senate Sponsor - Nichols) H.B. No. 2589 |
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| 2 | | - | (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2015; |
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| 3 | | - | May 6, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal |
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| 4 | | - | Justice; May 21, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote: |
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| 5 | | - | Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 21, 2015, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | | - | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 1 | + | H.B. No. 2589 |
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| 19 | 4 | | AN ACT |
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| 20 | 5 | | relating to the prosecution of and punishment for assaulting a |
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| 21 | 6 | | disabled individual; increasing a criminal penalty. |
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| 22 | 7 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 23 | 8 | | SECTION 1. Section 22.021(b), Penal Code, is amended by |
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| 24 | 9 | | amending Subdivision (2) and adding Subdivision (3) to read as |
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| 25 | 10 | | follows: |
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| 26 | 11 | | (2) "Elderly individual" has [and "disabled |
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| 27 | 12 | | individual" have] the meaning [meanings] assigned by Section |
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| 28 | 13 | | 22.04(c). |
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| 29 | 14 | | (3) "Disabled individual" means a person older than 13 |
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| 30 | 15 | | years of age who by reason of age or physical or mental disease, |
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| 31 | 16 | | defect, or injury is substantially unable to protect the person's |
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| 32 | 17 | | self from harm or to provide food, shelter, or medical care for the |
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| 33 | 18 | | person's self. |
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| 34 | 19 | | SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only |
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| 35 | 20 | | to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. |
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| 36 | 21 | | An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is |
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| 37 | 22 | | governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, |
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| 38 | 23 | | and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For |
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| 39 | 24 | | purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the |
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| 40 | 25 | | effective date of this Act if any element of the offense was |
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| 41 | 26 | | committed before that date. |
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| 42 | 27 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |
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| 28 | + | ______________________________ ______________________________ |
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| 29 | + | President of the Senate Speaker of the House |
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| 30 | + | I certify that H.B. No. 2589 was passed by the House on May 4, |
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| 31 | + | 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, 2 present, not |
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| 32 | + | voting. |
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| 33 | + | ______________________________ |
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| 34 | + | Chief Clerk of the House |
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| 35 | + | I certify that H.B. No. 2589 was passed by the Senate on May |
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| 36 | + | 26, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. |
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| 37 | + | ______________________________ |
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| 38 | + | Secretary of the Senate |
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| 39 | + | APPROVED: _____________________ |
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| 40 | + | Date |
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| 41 | + | _____________________ |
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| 42 | + | Governor |
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