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| 1 | 1 | By: Flores S.B. No. 1451 | |
| 2 | + | (In the Senate - Filed February 19, 2025; March 6, 2025, | |
| 3 | + | read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; | |
| 4 | + | March 13, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, | |
| 5 | + | Nays 0; March 13, 2025, sent to printer.) | |
| 6 | + | Click here to see the committee vote | |
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| 6 | 11 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 7 | 12 | AN ACT | |
| 8 | 13 | relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of | |
| 9 | 14 | stealing or receiving a stolen check or similar sight order. | |
| 10 | 15 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 11 | 16 | SECTION 1. Section 32.24(b), Penal Code, is amended to read | |
| 12 | 17 | as follows: | |
| 13 | 18 | (b) An offense under this section is a state jail felony | |
| 14 | 19 | [Class A misdemeanor]. | |
| 15 | 20 | SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | |
| 16 | 21 | to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. | |
| 17 | 22 | An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is | |
| 18 | 23 | governed by the law in effect on the date the offense is committed, | |
| 19 | 24 | and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For | |
| 20 | 25 | purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the | |
| 21 | 26 | effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred | |
| 22 | 27 | before that date. | |
| 23 | 28 | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | |
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