86R15852 MAW-D
By: Farrar H.B. No. 3563
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to creating the criminal offense of tampering with an
electronic monitoring device.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 38, Penal Code, is amended by adding
Section 38.112 to read as follows:
Sec. 38.112. TAMPERING WITH ELECTRONIC MONITORING DEVICE.
(a) A person, other than a person who is civilly committed as a
sexually violent predator under Chapter 841, Health and Safety
Code, commits an offense if the person is required to submit to
electronic monitoring of the person's location as a condition of
release on parole or to mandatory supervision and knowingly removes
or disables a tracking device that the person is required to wear to
enable the electronic monitoring of the person's location.
(b) An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor
except that the offense is a Class A misdemeanor if the person:
(1) is required as a condition of release on parole or
to mandatory supervision to report to a parole officer as defined by
Section 508.001, Government Code; and
(2) after removing or disabling the tracking device,
knowingly fails to report as required on two consecutive occasions.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.