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By:  Keel                                                         H.B. No. 1425



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the prosecution of the offense of sexual assault 
committed against residents of certain facilities.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 22.011(b), Penal Code, is amended to 
read as follows:    
	(b)  A sexual assault under Subsection (a)(1) is without the 
consent of the other person if:
		(1)  the actor compels the other person to submit or 
participate by the use of physical force or violence;
		(2)  the actor compels the other person to submit or 
participate by threatening to use force or violence against the 
other person, and the other person believes that the actor has the 
present ability to execute the threat;
		(3)  the other person has not consented and the actor 
knows the other person is unconscious or physically unable to 
resist;
		(4)  the actor knows that as a result of mental disease 
or defect the other person is at the time of the sexual assault 
incapable either of appraising the nature of the act or of resisting 
it;
		(5)  the other person has not consented and the actor 
knows the other person is unaware that the sexual assault is 
occurring;
		(6)  the actor has intentionally impaired the other 
person's power to appraise or control the other person's conduct by 
administering any substance without the other person's knowledge;
		(7)  the actor compels the other person to submit or 
participate by threatening to use force or violence against any 
person, and the other person believes that the actor has the ability 
to execute the threat;
		(8)  the actor is a public servant who coerces the other 
person to submit or participate;
		(9)  the actor is a mental health services provider or a 
health care services provider who causes the other person, who is a 
patient or former patient of the actor, to submit or participate by 
exploiting the other person's emotional dependency on the actor; 
[or]
		(10)  the actor is a clergyman who causes the other 
person to submit or participate by exploiting the other person's 
emotional dependency on the clergyman in the clergyman's 
professional character as spiritual adviser; or
		(11)  the actor is an employee of a facility where the 
other person is a resident, unless the employee and resident are 
formally or informally married to each other under Chapter 2, 
Family Code.
	SECTION 2.  Section 22.011(c), Penal Code, is amended by 
adding Subdivision (5) to read as follows:
		(5)  "Employee of a facility" means a person who is an 
employee of a facility defined by Section 250.001, Health and 
Safety Code, or any other person who provides services for a 
facility for compensation, including a  contract laborer.
	SECTION 3.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.                      
	(b)  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 covered 
by the law in effect when the offense was committed, and the former 
law is continued in effect for that purpose.  For purposes of this 
subsection, an offense was committed before the effective date of 
this Act if any element of the offense was committed before that 
date.