Texas 2023 - 88th Regular

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1	1	88R6095 BDP-D
2	2	By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 1972
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to employment and retirement consequences for an educator
8	8	convicted of or placed on deferred adjudication community
9	9	supervision for the sale, distribution, or display of harmful
10	10	material to a minor.
11	11	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	12	SECTION 1. Article 42.018(a), Code of Criminal Procedure,
13	13	is amended to read as follows:
14	14	(a) This article applies only to:
15	15	(1) conviction or deferred adjudication community
16	16	supervision granted on the basis of an offense for which a
17	17	conviction or grant of deferred adjudication community supervision
18	18	requires the defendant to register as a sex offender under Chapter
19	19	62; [or]
20	20	(2) conviction of an offense under Title 5, Penal
21	21	Code, if the victim of the offense was under 18 years of age at the
22	22	time the offense was committed; or
23	23	(3) conviction or deferred adjudication community
24	24	supervision granted on the basis of an offense under Section 43.24,
25	25	Penal Code.
26	26	SECTION 2. Section 21.058(a), Education Code, is amended to
27	27	read as follows:
28	28	(a) The procedures described by Subsections (b) and (c)
29	29	apply only to:
30	30	(1) [to] conviction of or placement on deferred
31	31	adjudication community supervision for an offense for which a
32	32	defendant is required to register as a sex offender under Chapter
33	33	62, Code of Criminal Procedure; [or]
34	34	(2) [to] conviction of a felony offense under Title 5,
35	35	Penal Code, if the victim of the offense was under 18 years of age at
36	36	the time the offense was committed; or
37	37	(3) conviction of or placement on deferred
38	38	adjudication community supervision for an offense under Section
39	39	43.24, Penal Code.
40	40	SECTION 3. Section 824.009(a), Government Code, is amended
41	41	to read as follows:
42	42	(a) In this section, "qualifying felony" means an offense
43	43	that is punishable as a felony under the following sections of the
44	44	Penal Code:
45	45	(1) Section 21.02 (continuous sexual abuse of young
46	46	child or disabled individual);
47	47	(2) Section 21.12 (improper relationship between
48	48	educator and student); [or]
49	49	(3) Section 22.011 (sexual assault) or Section 22.021
50	50	(aggravated sexual assault); or
51	51	(4) Section 43.24 (sale, distribution, or display of
52	52	harmful material to minor).
53	53	SECTION 4. (a) Article 42.018, Code of Criminal Procedure,
54	54	as amended by this Act, applies only to a judgment of conviction or
55	55	order granting deferred adjudication community supervision entered
56	56	on or after the effective date of this Act.
57	57	(b) Section 824.009, Government Code, as amended by this
58	58	Act, applies only to an offense committed on or after the effective
59	59	date of this Act. An offense committed before that date is governed
60	60	by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, and the
61	61	former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of
62	62	this section, an offense was committed before the effective date of
63	63	this Act if any element of the offense occurred before that date.
64	64	SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.