By: Kolkhorst S.B. No. 745
(In the Senate - Filed January 8, 2025; February 7, 2025,
read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
April 3, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
Nays 0; April 3, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to enhancing the criminal penalty for the offense of
intoxication manslaughter in certain circumstances.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 49.09(b-2), Penal Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(b-2) An offense under Section 49.08 is a felony of the
first degree if it is shown on the trial of the offense that the
person caused the death of:
(1) a person described by Subsection (b-1); or
(2) more than one person during the same criminal
transaction.
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, 2025.
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