TO: | Honorable John Whitmire, Chair, Senate Committee on Criminal Justice |
FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | SB130 by West, Royce (Relating to conduct that constitutes the offense of endangering a child.), As Introduced |
The bill would amend the Penal Code relating to the offense of abandoning or endangering a child to include injected, ingested, inhaled, or otherwise introduced into the human body a controlled substance listed in Schedule I, as established by the commissioner of public health, in the presence of a child to conduct placing a child in imminent danger of death, bodily injury, or physical or mental impairment. Abandoning or endangering a child by intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal negligence, by act or omission, engaging in conduct that places a child younger than 15 years in imminent danger of death, bodily injury, or physical or mental impairment is punishable as a state jail felony.
The bill would take effect on September 1, 2007 and apply to an offense committed on or after the effective date.
The probable impact to local government of implementing the bill cannot be determined due to the unavailability of reliable data or information related to the circumstances involved in the use of a controlled substance listed in Schedule I, as established by the commissioner of public health, in the presence of a child.
Source Agencies: | 696 Department of Criminal Justice
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LBB Staff: | JOB, ES, GG, TM
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