The provisions of the bill addressing felony sanctions are the subject of this analysis. The bill would amend the Family Code as it relates to creating a criminal offense related to the rights of a living child born after an abortion. Under the provisions of the bill, the punishment for this offense would be a third degree felony.

A third degree felony is punishable by confinement in prison for a term from 2 to 10 years and, in addition to confinement, may be subject to an optional fine not to exceed $10,000.

Creating a new offense for which a criminal penalty is applied is expected to result in additional demands upon the correctional resources of counties or of the State due to an increase in the number of individuals placed under supervision in the community or sentenced to a term of confinement within state correctional institutions. This analysis assumes the provisions of the bill addressing felony sanctions would not result in a significant impact on state correctional populations or on the demand for state correctional resources.