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| 1 | 1 | By: King S.B. No. 1208 | |
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| 2 | + | (In the Senate - Filed February 10, 2025; | |
| 3 | + | February 28, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on | |
| 4 | + | Criminal Justice; April 10, 2025, reported favorably by the | |
| 5 | + | following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 10, 2025, sent to printer.) | |
| 6 | + | Click here to see the committee vote | |
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| 6 | 9 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 7 | 10 | AN ACT | |
| 8 | 11 | relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of | |
| 9 | 12 | interference with public duties. | |
| 10 | 13 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 11 | 14 | SECTION 1. Section 38.15(b), Penal Code, is amended to read | |
| 12 | 15 | as follows: | |
| 13 | 16 | (b) An offense under this section is a state jail felony | |
| 14 | 17 | [Class B misdemeanor]. | |
| 15 | 18 | SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | |
| 16 | 19 | to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. | |
| 17 | 20 | An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is | |
| 18 | 21 | governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, | |
| 19 | 22 | and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For | |
| 20 | 23 | purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the | |
| 21 | 24 | effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred | |
| 22 | 25 | before that date. | |
| 23 | 26 | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | |
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