By: Hefner (Senate Sponsor - Middleton) H.B. No. 2306
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 24, 2023;
April 24, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on
Criminal Justice; May 11, 2023, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 11, 2023, sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE VOTE
YeaNayAbsentPNV
WhitmireX
FloresX
BettencourtX
HinojosaX
HuffmanX
KingX
MilesX
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of voyeurism.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 21.17(a), Penal Code, is amended to read
as follows:
(a) A person commits an offense if the person, with the
intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of the actor,
observes, including remotely through the use of electronic means,
another person without the other person's consent while the other
person is in a dwelling or structure in which the other person has a
reasonable expectation of privacy.
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, 2023.
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