1-1 By: Staples S.B. No. 437
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 29, 2001; January 30, 2001,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
1-4 March 6, 2001, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0, 1 present, not
1-6 voting; March 6, 2001, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 437 By: Staples
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the offense of theft of service.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 31.04, Penal Code, is
1-13 amended to read as follows:
1-14 (a) A person commits theft of service if, with intent to
1-15 avoid payment for service that he knows is provided only for
1-16 compensation:
1-17 (1) he intentionally or knowingly secures performance
1-18 of the service by deception, threat, or false token;
1-19 (2) having control over the disposition of services of
1-20 another to which he is not entitled, he intentionally or knowingly
1-21 diverts the other's services to his own benefit or to the benefit
1-22 of another not entitled to them; [or]
1-23 (3) having control of personal property under a
1-24 written rental agreement, he holds the property beyond the
1-25 expiration of the rental period without the effective consent of
1-26 the owner of the property, thereby depriving the owner of the
1-27 property of its use in further rentals; or
1-28 (4) he intentionally or knowingly agrees to provide
1-29 compensation and, after the service is rendered, fails to provide
1-30 payment on demand.
1-31 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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