88R13262 AJZ-F
 
  By: Ramos H.B. No. 2537
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of sexual
  assault.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 22.011(b), Penal Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (b)  A sexual assault under Subsection (a)(1) is without the
  consent of the other person if:
               (1)  the actor compels the other person to submit or
  participate by the use of physical force, violence, or coercion;
               (2)  the actor compels the other person to submit or
  participate by threatening to use force or violence against the
  other person or to cause harm to the other person, and the other
  person believes that the actor has the present ability to execute
  the threat;
               (3)  the other person has not consented and the actor
  knows the other person is unconscious or physically unable to
  resist;
               (4)  the actor knows that as a result of mental disease
  or defect the other person is at the time of the sexual assault
  incapable either of appraising the nature of the act or of resisting
  it;
               (5)  the other person has not consented and the actor
  knows the other person is unaware that the sexual assault is
  occurring;
               (6)  the actor has intentionally impaired the other
  person's power to appraise or control the other person's conduct by
  administering any substance without the other person's knowledge;
               (7)  the actor compels the other person to submit or
  participate by threatening to use force or violence against any
  person, and the other person believes that the actor has the ability
  to execute the threat;
               (8)  the actor is a public servant who coerces the other
  person to submit or participate;
               (9)  the actor is a mental health services provider or a
  health care services provider who causes the other person, who is a
  patient or former patient of the actor, to submit or participate by
  exploiting the other person's emotional dependency on the actor;
               (10)  the actor is a clergyman who causes the other
  person to submit or participate by exploiting the other person's
  emotional dependency on the clergyman in the clergyman's
  professional character as spiritual adviser;
               (11)  the actor is an employee of a facility where the
  other person is a resident, unless the employee and resident are
  formally or informally married to each other under Chapter 2,
  Family Code;
               (12)  the actor is a health care services provider who,
  in the course of performing an assisted reproduction procedure on
  the other person, uses human reproductive material from a donor
  knowing that the other person has not expressly consented to the use
  of material from that donor;
               (13)  the actor is a coach or tutor who causes the other
  person to submit or participate by using the actor's power or
  influence to exploit the other person's dependency on the actor;
  [or]
               (14)  the actor is a caregiver hired to assist the other
  person with activities of daily life and causes the other person to
  submit or participate by exploiting the other person's dependency
  on the actor; or
               (15)  the actor is a law enforcement officer and the
  other person is arrested or detained or otherwise in the custody of
  law enforcement.
         SECTION 2.  Section 22.011(c), Penal Code, is amended by
  adding Subdivision (8) to read as follows:
               (8)  "Law enforcement officer" means a peace officer,
  reserve law enforcement officer, county jailer, school marshal, or
  public security officer, as each of those terms is defined by
  Section 1701.001, Occupations Code, who is licensed under Chapter
  1701 of that code.
         SECTION 3.  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 when 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 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.