86R10097 JRR-D
By: VanDeaver H.B. No. 2034
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to increasing the criminal punishment for the offense of
invasive visual recording.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 21.15(c), Penal Code, is amended to read
as follows:
(c) An offense under this section is a state jail felony,
except that the offense is a felony of the third degree if the
victim of the offense was younger than 18 years of age at the time
the offense was committed, regardless of whether the actor knew the
age of the victim at the time of the offense.
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, 2019.