BILL ANALYSIS |
C.S.H.B. 1061 |
By: Turner, Chris |
Criminal Jurisprudence |
Committee Report (Substituted) |
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Interested parties express concern that current law does not adequately protect law enforcement officials from acts of retaliation, specifically with respect to the dissemination of personal information. These parties point to recent incidents in which private data belonging to employees of certain law enforcement agencies, including social security numbers and passwords, was published online by a hacking group. C.S.H.B. 1061 seeks to help protect against this type of incident.
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
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RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
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ANALYSIS
C.S.H.B. 1061 amends the Penal Code to establish a rebuttable presumption, in a prosecution for an offense involving interference with a peace officer while the peace officer is performing a duty or exercising authority imposed or granted by law, that the actor interferes with the peace officer if it is shown on the trial of the offense that the actor intentionally disseminated the officer's personal, private, or confidential information.
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EFFECTIVE DATE
September 1, 2015.
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COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL AND SUBSTITUTE
While C.S.H.B. 1061 may differ from the original in minor or nonsubstantive ways, the following comparison is organized and formatted in a manner that indicates the substantial differences between the introduced and committee substitute versions of the bill.
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