By: Birdwell  S.B. No. 524
         (In the Senate - Filed January 19, 2017; February 6, 2017,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
  April 20, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
  Nays 0, 1 present not voting; April 20, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to increasing the punishment for the offense of abuse of a
  corpse.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 42.08(b), Penal Code, is amended to read
  as follows:
         (b)  An offense under this section is a state jail felony
  [Class A misdemeanor].
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
  An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
  governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,
  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For
  purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the
  effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred
  before that date.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
 
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