| 1 | 1 | | 87R10963 TYPED |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Campbell S.B. No. 1163 |
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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to the criminal punishment and conditions of community |
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| 8 | 8 | | supervision for the offense of obstructing a highway or other |
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| 9 | 9 | | passageway; increasing a criminal penalty. |
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| 10 | 10 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 11 | 11 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter K, Chapter 42A, Code of Criminal |
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| 12 | 12 | | Procedure, is amended by adding Article 42A.517 to read as follows: |
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| 13 | 13 | | Art. 42A.517. COMMUNITY SUPERVISION FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES |
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| 14 | 14 | | INVOLVING OBSTRUCTION OF HIGHWAY OR OTHER PASSAGEWAY. A court |
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| 15 | 15 | | granting community supervision to a defendant convicted of an |
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| 16 | 16 | | offense punishable as a state jail felony under Section 42.03, |
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| 17 | 17 | | Penal Code, shall require as a condition of community supervision |
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| 18 | 18 | | that the defendant submit to not less than 10 days of confinement in |
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| 19 | 19 | | a county jail. |
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| 20 | 20 | | SECTION 2. Section 42.03(c), Penal Code, is amended to read |
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| 21 | 21 | | as follows: |
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| 22 | 22 | | (c) An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor, |
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| 23 | 23 | | except that the offense is a state jail felony if, in committing the |
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| 24 | 24 | | offense, the actor knowingly: |
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| 25 | 25 | | (1) prevents the passage of an authorized emergency |
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| 26 | 26 | | vehicle, as defined by Section 541.201, Transportation Code, that |
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| 27 | 27 | | is operating the vehicle's emergency audible or visual signals; or |
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| 28 | 28 | | (2) obstructs access to a hospital licensed under |
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| 29 | 29 | | Chapter 241, Health and Safety Code, or other health care facility |
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| 30 | 30 | | that provides emergency medical care, as defined by Section |
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| 31 | 31 | | 773.003, Health and Safety Code. |
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| 32 | 32 | | SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to |
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| 33 | 33 | | an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. An |
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| 34 | 34 | | offense committed before the effective date of this Act is governed |
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| 35 | 35 | | by the law in effect when the offense was committed, and the former |
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| 36 | 36 | | law is continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of this |
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| 37 | 37 | | section, an offense was committed before the effective date of this |
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| 38 | 38 | | Act if any element of the offense occurred before that date. |
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| 39 | 39 | | SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |
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