By: Flores S.B. No. 1451
(In the Senate - Filed February 19, 2025; March 6, 2025,
read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
March 13, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
Nays 0; March 13, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of
stealing or receiving a stolen check or similar sight order.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 32.24(b), Penal Code, is amended to read
as follows:
(b) An offense under this section is a state jail felony
[Class A misdemeanor].
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 is 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, 2025.
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