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House Bill 1095 |
House Author: Menendez |
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Effective: 9-1-05 |
Senate Sponsor: Deuell |
House Bill 1095 amends the Penal Code to create the offense of harassment of a public servant. The bill makes it a third degree felony if a person, with the intent to assault, harass, or alarm, causes another person the actor knows to be a public servant to contact the blood, certain bodily fluids, or feces of the actor, any other person, or an animal while the public servant is lawfully discharging an official duty. House Bill 1095 provides that the court must order a person who is charged with such an offense against a public servant or certain officers in a correctional facility to undergo tests for certain communicable diseases. The bill also requires the court to order a person convicted of the prescribed offense to make restitution to the victim of the offense or the victim's employer for expenses incurred for the testing of the victim for such communicable diseases and any treatment needed if the victim contracts such diseases as a result of the offense.