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.
A state jail felony is punishable by confinement in a state jail for any term of not more than two years or less than 180 days, or, in addition to confinement, a fine not to exceed $10,000.
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LBB Staff: | JOB, TM
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