By: Phillips Senate Sponsor-Deuell H.B. No. 442

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 16, 2007; April 17, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; May 21, 2007, reported favorably, as amended, by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 21, 2007, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to taking or attempting to take a stun gun from a peace officer or certain other officers.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 38.14(a)(2), Penal Code, is amended to read as follows:

(2) "Stun gun" means an electronic [a] device that emits an electrical charge and is designed and primarily employed to incapacitate [propel darts or other projectiles attached to wires that, on contact, will deliver an electrical pulse capable of incapacitating] a person or animal through:

(A) direct contact with electrodes on the device;

(B) a projection of wired probes attached to the device; or

(C) a spark or a stream of plasma or ionized gas or another conductive stream emitting from the device.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.

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