| TO: | Honorable John Whitmire, Chair, Senate Committee on Criminal Justice |
| FROM: | Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | HB644 by Canales (Relating to the contents of a search warrant and to the offense of tampering with a governmental record consisting of a search warrant.), As Engrossed |
The provisions of the bill addressing felony sanctions are the subject of this analysis. The bill would amend the Penal Code to make tampering with a search warrant issued by a magistrate a third degree felony.
A third degree felony is punishable by confinement in prison for a term of two to 10 years and an optional fine not to exceed $10,000.
Expanding the list of behaviors for which a criminal penalty can be applied is expected to increase correctional supervision and/or incarceration populations and thereby increase demands on county and/or state correctional resources. This analysis assumes implementing the provisions of the bill would not result in a significant impact on state correctional agencies, programs, or workloads.
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| LBB Staff: | UP, LM
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