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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to offenses involving the manufacture or delivery of |
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certain controlled substances and the enforcement and prevention of |
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those offenses; creating a criminal offense. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Article 2.32(b), Code of Criminal Procedure, is |
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amended to read as follows: |
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(b) Unless good cause exists that makes electronic |
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recording infeasible, a law enforcement agency shall make a |
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complete and contemporaneous electronic recording of any custodial |
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interrogation that occurs in a place of detention and is of a person |
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suspected of committing or charged with the commission of an |
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offense under: |
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(1) Section 19.02, Penal Code (murder); |
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(2) Section 19.03, Penal Code (capital murder); |
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(3) Section 19.07, Penal Code (lethal opioid |
|
poisoning); |
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(4) Section 20.03, Penal Code (kidnapping); |
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(5) [(4)] Section 20.04, Penal Code (aggravated |
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kidnapping); |
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(6) [(5)] Section 20A.02, Penal Code (trafficking of |
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persons); |
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(7) [(6)] Section 20A.03, Penal Code (continuous |
|
trafficking of persons); |
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(8) [(7)] Section 21.02, Penal Code (continuous |
|
sexual abuse of young child or disabled individual); |
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(9) [(8)] Section 21.11, Penal Code (indecency with a |
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child); |
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(10) [(9)] Section 21.12, Penal Code (improper |
|
relationship between educator and student); |
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(11) [(10)] Section 22.011, Penal Code (sexual |
|
assault); |
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(12) [(11)] Section 22.021, Penal Code (aggravated |
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sexual assault); or |
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(13) [(12)] Section 43.25, Penal Code (sexual |
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performance by a child). |
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SECTION 2. Article 12.01, Code of Criminal Procedure, is |
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amended to read as follows: |
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Art. 12.01. FELONIES. Except as provided in Article 12.03, |
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felony indictments may be presented within these limits, and not |
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afterward: |
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(1) no limitation: |
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(A) murder and manslaughter; |
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(B) sexual assault under Section 22.011(a)(2), |
|
Penal Code, or aggravated sexual assault under Section |
|
22.021(a)(1)(B), Penal Code; |
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(C) sexual assault, if: |
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(i) during the investigation of the offense |
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biological matter is collected and the matter: |
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(a) has not yet been subjected to |
|
forensic DNA testing; or |
|
(b) has been subjected to forensic DNA |
|
testing and the testing results show that the matter does not match |
|
the victim or any other person whose identity is readily |
|
ascertained; or |
|
(ii) probable cause exists to believe that |
|
the defendant has committed the same or a similar sex offense |
|
against five or more victims; |
|
(D) continuous sexual abuse of young child or |
|
disabled individual under Section 21.02, Penal Code; |
|
(E) indecency with a child under Section 21.11, |
|
Penal Code; |
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(F) an offense involving leaving the scene of an |
|
accident under Section 550.021, Transportation Code, if the |
|
accident resulted in the death of a person; |
|
(G) trafficking of persons under Section |
|
20A.02(a)(7) or (8), Penal Code; |
|
(H) continuous trafficking of persons under |
|
Section 20A.03, Penal Code; [or] |
|
(I) compelling prostitution under Section |
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43.05(a)(2), Penal Code; or |
|
(J) lethal opioid poisoning under Section 19.07, |
|
Penal Code; |
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(2) ten years from the date of the commission of the |
|
offense: |
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(A) theft of any estate, real, personal or mixed, |
|
by an executor, administrator, guardian or trustee, with intent to |
|
defraud any creditor, heir, legatee, ward, distributee, |
|
beneficiary or settlor of a trust interested in such estate; |
|
(B) theft by a public servant of government |
|
property over which the public servant exercises control in the |
|
public servant's official capacity; |
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(C) forgery or the uttering, using, or passing of |
|
forged instruments; |
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(D) injury to an elderly or disabled individual |
|
punishable as a felony of the first degree under Section 22.04, |
|
Penal Code; |
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(E) sexual assault, except as provided by |
|
Subdivision (1) or (7); |
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(F) arson; |
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(G) trafficking of persons under Section |
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20A.02(a)(1), (2), (3), or (4), Penal Code; or |
|
(H) compelling prostitution under Section |
|
43.05(a)(1), Penal Code; |
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(3) seven years from the date of the commission of the |
|
offense: |
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(A) misapplication of fiduciary property or |
|
property of a financial institution; |
|
(B) fraudulent securing of document execution; |
|
(C) a felony violation under Chapter 162, Tax |
|
Code; |
|
(D) false statement to obtain property or credit |
|
under Section 32.32, Penal Code; |
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(E) money laundering; |
|
(F) credit card or debit card abuse under Section |
|
32.31, Penal Code; |
|
(G) fraudulent use or possession of identifying |
|
information under Section 32.51, Penal Code; |
|
(H) exploitation of a child, elderly individual, |
|
or disabled individual under Section 32.53, Penal Code; |
|
(I) health care fraud under Section 35A.02, Penal |
|
Code; or |
|
(J) bigamy under Section 25.01, Penal Code, |
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except as provided by Subdivision (6); |
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(4) five years from the date of the commission of the |
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offense: |
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(A) theft or robbery; |
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(B) except as provided by Subdivision (5), |
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kidnapping or burglary; |
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(C) injury to an elderly or disabled individual |
|
that is not punishable as a felony of the first degree under Section |
|
22.04, Penal Code; |
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(D) abandoning or endangering a child; or |
|
(E) insurance fraud; |
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(5) if the investigation of the offense shows that the |
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victim is younger than 17 years of age at the time the offense is |
|
committed, 20 years from the 18th birthday of the victim of one of |
|
the following offenses: |
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(A) sexual performance by a child under Section |
|
43.25, Penal Code; |
|
(B) aggravated kidnapping under Section |
|
20.04(a)(4), Penal Code, if the defendant committed the offense |
|
with the intent to violate or abuse the victim sexually; or |
|
(C) burglary under Section 30.02, Penal Code, if |
|
the offense is punishable under Subsection (d) of that section and |
|
the defendant committed the offense with the intent to commit an |
|
offense described by Subdivision (1)(B) or (D) of this article or |
|
Paragraph (B) of this subdivision; |
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(6) ten years from the 18th birthday of the victim of |
|
the offense: |
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(A) trafficking of persons under Section |
|
20A.02(a)(5) or (6), Penal Code; |
|
(B) injury to a child under Section 22.04, Penal |
|
Code; or |
|
(C) bigamy under Section 25.01, Penal Code, if |
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the investigation of the offense shows that the person, other than |
|
the legal spouse of the defendant, whom the defendant marries or |
|
purports to marry or with whom the defendant lives under the |
|
appearance of being married is younger than 18 years of age at the |
|
time the offense is committed; |
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(7) two years from the date the offense was |
|
discovered: sexual assault punishable as a state jail felony under |
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Section 22.011(f)(2), Penal Code; or |
|
(8) three years from the date of the commission of the |
|
offense: all other felonies. |
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SECTION 3. Article 17.03(b-2), Code of Criminal Procedure, |
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is amended to read as follows: |
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(b-2) Except as provided by Articles 15.21, 17.033, and |
|
17.151, a defendant may not be released on personal bond if the |
|
defendant: |
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(1) is charged with: |
|
(A) an offense involving violence; or |
|
(B) an offense under Section 19.07, Penal Code |
|
(lethal opioid poisoning); or |
|
(2) while released on bail or community supervision |
|
for an offense described by Subdivision (1) [involving violence], |
|
is charged with committing: |
|
(A) any offense punishable as a felony; or |
|
(B) an offense under the following provisions of |
|
the Penal Code: |
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(i) Section 22.01(a)(1) (assault); |
|
(ii) Section 22.05 (deadly conduct); |
|
(iii) Section 22.07 (terroristic threat); |
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or |
|
(iv) Section 42.01(a)(7) or (8) (disorderly |
|
conduct involving firearm). |
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SECTION 4. Article 17.032(b), Code of Criminal Procedure, |
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is amended to read as follows: |
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(b) Notwithstanding Article 17.03(b), or a bond schedule |
|
adopted or a standing order entered by a judge, a magistrate shall |
|
release a defendant on personal bond unless good cause is shown |
|
otherwise if: |
|
(1) the defendant is not charged with and has not been |
|
previously convicted of a violent offense or an offense under |
|
Section 19.07, Penal Code; |
|
(2) the defendant is examined by the service provider |
|
that contracts with the jail to provide mental health or |
|
intellectual and developmental disability services, the local |
|
mental health authority, the local intellectual and developmental |
|
disability authority, or another qualified mental health or |
|
intellectual and developmental disability expert under Article |
|
16.22; |
|
(3) the applicable expert, in a written report |
|
submitted to the magistrate under Article 16.22: |
|
(A) concludes that the defendant has a mental |
|
illness or is a person with an intellectual disability and is |
|
nonetheless competent to stand trial; and |
|
(B) recommends mental health treatment or |
|
intellectual and developmental disability services for the |
|
defendant, as applicable; |
|
(4) the magistrate determines, in consultation with |
|
the local mental health authority or local intellectual and |
|
developmental disability authority, that appropriate |
|
community-based mental health or intellectual and developmental |
|
disability services for the defendant are available in accordance |
|
with Section 534.053 or 534.103, Health and Safety Code, or through |
|
another mental health or intellectual and developmental disability |
|
services provider; and |
|
(5) the magistrate finds, after considering all the |
|
circumstances, a pretrial risk assessment, if applicable, and any |
|
other credible information provided by the attorney representing |
|
the state or the defendant, that release on personal bond would |
|
reasonably ensure the defendant's appearance in court as required |
|
and the safety of the community and the victim of the alleged |
|
offense. |
|
SECTION 5. Article 17.50(b), Code of Criminal Procedure, is |
|
amended to read as follows: |
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(b) As soon as practicable but not later than the next day |
|
after the date a magistrate issues an order imposing a condition of |
|
bond on a defendant under this chapter for a violent offense or an |
|
offense under Section 19.07, Penal Code, the magistrate shall |
|
notify the sheriff of the condition and provide to the sheriff the |
|
following information: |
|
(1) the information listed in Section 411.042(b)(6), |
|
Government Code, as that information relates to an order described |
|
by this subsection; |
|
(2) the name and address of any named person the |
|
condition of bond is intended to protect, and if different and |
|
applicable, the name and address of the victim of the alleged |
|
offense; |
|
(3) the date the order releasing the defendant on bond |
|
was issued; and |
|
(4) the court that issued the order releasing the |
|
defendant on bond. |
|
SECTION 6. Article 18A.101, Code of Criminal Procedure, is |
|
amended to read as follows: |
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Art. 18A.101. OFFENSES FOR WHICH INTERCEPTION ORDER MAY BE |
|
ISSUED. A judge of competent jurisdiction may issue an |
|
interception order only if the prosecutor applying for the order |
|
shows probable cause to believe that the interception will provide |
|
evidence of the commission of: |
|
(1) a felony under any of the following provisions of |
|
the Health and Safety Code: |
|
(A) Chapter 481, other than felony possession of |
|
marihuana; |
|
(B) Chapter 483; or |
|
(C) Section 485.032; |
|
(2) an offense under any of the following provisions |
|
of the Penal Code: |
|
(A) Section 19.02; |
|
(B) Section 19.03; |
|
(C) Section 19.07; |
|
(D) Section 20.03; |
|
(E) [(D)] Section 20.04; |
|
(F) [(E)] Chapter 20A; |
|
(G) [(F)] Chapter 34, if the criminal activity |
|
giving rise to the proceeds involves the commission of an offense |
|
under Title 5, Penal Code, or an offense under federal law or the |
|
laws of another state containing elements that are substantially |
|
similar to the elements of an offense under Title 5; |
|
(H) [(G)] Section 38.11; |
|
(I) [(H)] Section 43.04; |
|
(J) [(I)] Section 43.041; |
|
(K) [(J)] Section 43.05; or |
|
(L) [(K)] Section 43.26; or |
|
(3) an attempt, conspiracy, or solicitation to commit |
|
an offense listed in Subdivision (1) or (2). |
|
SECTION 7. Section 1, Article 38.071, Code of Criminal |
|
Procedure, is amended to read as follows: |
|
Sec. 1. This article applies only to a hearing or proceeding |
|
in which the court determines that a child younger than 13 years of |
|
age would be unavailable to testify in the presence of the defendant |
|
about an offense defined by any of the following sections of the |
|
Penal Code: |
|
(1) Section 19.02 (Murder); |
|
(2) Section 19.03 (Capital Murder); |
|
(3) Section 19.04 (Manslaughter); |
|
(4) Section 19.07 (Lethal Opioid Poisoning); |
|
(5) Section 20.04 (Aggravated Kidnapping); |
|
(6) [(5)] Section 21.11 (Indecency with a Child); |
|
(7) [(6)] Section 22.011 (Sexual Assault); |
|
(8) [(7)] Section 22.02 (Aggravated Assault); |
|
(9) [(8)] Section 22.021 (Aggravated Sexual Assault); |
|
(10) [(9)] Section 22.04(e) (Injury to a Child, |
|
Elderly Individual, or Disabled Individual); |
|
(11) [(10)] Section 22.04(f) (Injury to a Child, |
|
Elderly Individual, or Disabled Individual), if the conduct is |
|
committed intentionally or knowingly; |
|
(12) [(11)] Section 25.02 (Prohibited Sexual |
|
Conduct); |
|
(13) [(12)] Section 29.03 (Aggravated Robbery); |
|
(14) [(13)] Section 43.25 (Sexual Performance by a |
|
Child); |
|
(15) [(14)] Section 21.02 (Continuous Sexual Abuse of |
|
Young Child or Disabled Individual); |
|
(16) [(15)] Section 43.05(a)(2) (Compelling |
|
Prostitution); or |
|
(17) [(16)] Section 20A.02(a)(7) or (8) (Trafficking |
|
of Persons). |
|
SECTION 8. Article 42A.054(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, |
|
is amended to read as follows: |
|
(a) Article 42A.053 does not apply to a defendant adjudged |
|
guilty of an offense under: |
|
(1) Section 15.03, Penal Code, if the offense is |
|
punishable as a felony of the first degree; |
|
(2) Section 19.02, Penal Code (Murder); |
|
(3) Section 19.03, Penal Code (Capital Murder); |
|
(4) Section 20.04, Penal Code (Aggravated |
|
Kidnapping); |
|
(5) Section 20A.02, Penal Code (Trafficking of |
|
Persons); |
|
(6) Section 20A.03, Penal Code (Continuous |
|
Trafficking of Persons); |
|
(7) Section 21.11, Penal Code (Indecency with a |
|
Child); |
|
(8) Section 22.011, Penal Code (Sexual Assault); |
|
(9) Section 22.021, Penal Code (Aggravated Sexual |
|
Assault); |
|
(10) Section 22.04(a)(1), Penal Code (Injury to a |
|
Child, Elderly Individual, or Disabled Individual), if: |
|
(A) the offense is punishable as a felony of the |
|
first degree; and |
|
(B) the victim of the offense is a child; |
|
(11) Section 29.03, Penal Code (Aggravated Robbery); |
|
(12) Section 30.02, Penal Code (Burglary), if: |
|
(A) the offense is punishable under Subsection |
|
(d) of that section; and |
|
(B) the actor committed the offense with the |
|
intent to commit a felony under Section 21.02, 21.11, 22.011, |
|
22.021, or 25.02, Penal Code; |
|
(13) Section 43.04, Penal Code (Aggravated Promotion |
|
of Prostitution); |
|
(14) Section 43.05, Penal Code (Compelling |
|
Prostitution); |
|
(15) Section 43.25, Penal Code (Sexual Performance by |
|
a Child); |
|
(16) Chapter 481, Health and Safety Code, for which |
|
punishment is increased under: |
|
(A) Section 481.140 of that code (Use of Child in |
|
Commission of Offense); or |
|
(B) Section 481.134(c), (d), (e), or (f) of that |
|
code (Drug-free Zones) if it is shown that the defendant has been |
|
previously convicted of an offense for which punishment was |
|
increased under any of those subsections; [or] |
|
(17) Section 481.1123, Health and Safety Code |
|
(Manufacture or Delivery of Substance in Penalty Group 1-B), if the |
|
offense is punishable under Subsection (d), (e), or (f) of that |
|
section; or |
|
(18) Section 19.07, Penal Code (Lethal Opioid |
|
Poisoning). |
|
SECTION 9. Article 42A.056, Code of Criminal Procedure, is |
|
amended to read as follows: |
|
Art. 42A.056. LIMITATION ON JURY-RECOMMENDED COMMUNITY |
|
SUPERVISION. A defendant is not eligible for community supervision |
|
under Article 42A.055 if the defendant: |
|
(1) is sentenced to a term of imprisonment that |
|
exceeds 10 years; |
|
(2) is convicted of a state jail felony for which |
|
suspension of the imposition of the sentence occurs automatically |
|
under Article 42A.551; |
|
(3) is adjudged guilty of an offense under Section |
|
19.02 or 19.07, Penal Code; |
|
(4) is convicted of an offense under Section 21.11, |
|
22.011, or 22.021, Penal Code, if the victim of the offense was |
|
younger than 14 years of age at the time the offense was committed; |
|
(5) is convicted of an offense under Section 20.04, |
|
Penal Code, if: |
|
(A) the victim of the offense was younger than 14 |
|
years of age at the time the offense was committed; and |
|
(B) the actor committed the offense with the |
|
intent to violate or abuse the victim sexually; |
|
(6) is convicted of an offense under Section 20A.02, |
|
20A.03, 43.04, 43.05, or 43.25, Penal Code; |
|
(7) is convicted of an offense for which punishment is |
|
increased under Section 481.134(c), (d), (e), or (f), Health and |
|
Safety Code, if it is shown that the defendant has been previously |
|
convicted of an offense for which punishment was increased under |
|
any of those subsections; or |
|
(8) is convicted of an offense under Section 481.1123, |
|
Health and Safety Code, if the offense is punishable under |
|
Subsection (d), (e), or (f) of that section. |
|
SECTION 10. Article 42A.102(b), Code of Criminal Procedure, |
|
is amended to read as follows: |
|
(b) In all other cases, the judge may grant deferred |
|
adjudication community supervision unless: |
|
(1) the defendant is charged with an offense: |
|
(A) under Section 20A.02, 20A.03, 49.045, 49.05, |
|
49.065, 49.07, or 49.08, Penal Code; |
|
(B) under Section 49.04 or 49.06, Penal Code, |
|
and, at the time of the offense: |
|
(i) the defendant held a commercial |
|
driver's license or a commercial learner's permit; or |
|
(ii) the defendant's alcohol concentration, |
|
as defined by Section 49.01, Penal Code, was 0.15 or more; |
|
(C) for which punishment may be increased under |
|
Section 49.09, Penal Code; |
|
(D) for which punishment may be increased under |
|
Section 481.134(c), (d), (e), or (f), Health and Safety Code, if it |
|
is shown that the defendant has been previously convicted of an |
|
offense for which punishment was increased under any one of those |
|
subsections; or |
|
(E) under Section 481.1123, Health and Safety |
|
Code, that is punishable under Subsection (d), (e), or (f) of that |
|
section; |
|
(2) the defendant: |
|
(A) is charged with an offense under Section |
|
21.11, 22.011, 22.021, 43.04, or 43.05, Penal Code, regardless of |
|
the age of the victim, or a felony described by Article 42A.453(b), |
|
other than a felony described by Subdivision (1)(A) or (3)(B) of |
|
this subsection; and |
|
(B) has previously been placed on community |
|
supervision for an offense under Paragraph (A); |
|
(3) the defendant is charged with an offense under: |
|
(A) Section 21.02, Penal Code; [or] |
|
(B) Section 22.021, Penal Code, that is |
|
punishable under Subsection (f) of that section or under Section |
|
12.42(c)(3) or (4), Penal Code; or |
|
(C) Section 19.07, Penal Code; or |
|
(4) the defendant is charged with an offense under |
|
Section 19.02, Penal Code, except that the judge may grant deferred |
|
adjudication community supervision on determining that the |
|
defendant did not cause the death of the deceased, did not intend to |
|
kill the deceased or another, and did not anticipate that a human |
|
life would be taken. |
|
SECTION 11. Section 37.007(a), Education Code, is amended |
|
to read as follows: |
|
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (k), a student shall be |
|
expelled from a school if the student, on school property or while |
|
attending a school-sponsored or school-related activity on or off |
|
of school property: |
|
(1) engages in conduct that contains the elements of |
|
the offense of unlawfully carrying weapons under Section 46.02, |
|
Penal Code, or elements of an offense relating to prohibited |
|
weapons under Section 46.05, Penal Code; |
|
(2) engages in conduct that contains the elements of |
|
the offense of: |
|
(A) aggravated assault under Section 22.02, |
|
Penal Code, sexual assault under Section 22.011, Penal Code, or |
|
aggravated sexual assault under Section 22.021, Penal Code; |
|
(B) arson under Section 28.02, Penal Code; |
|
(C) murder under Section 19.02, Penal Code, |
|
capital murder under Section 19.03, Penal Code, or criminal |
|
attempt, under Section 15.01, Penal Code, to commit murder or |
|
capital murder; |
|
(D) indecency with a child under Section 21.11, |
|
Penal Code; |
|
(E) aggravated kidnapping under Section 20.04, |
|
Penal Code; |
|
(F) aggravated robbery under Section 29.03, |
|
Penal Code; |
|
(G) manslaughter under Section 19.04, Penal |
|
Code; |
|
(H) criminally negligent homicide under Section |
|
19.05, Penal Code; [or] |
|
(I) continuous sexual abuse of young child or |
|
disabled individual under Section 21.02, Penal Code; or |
|
(J) lethal opioid poisoning under Section 19.07, |
|
Penal Code; or |
|
(3) engages in conduct specified by Section |
|
37.006(a)(2)(C) or (D), if the conduct is punishable as a felony. |
|
SECTION 12. Section 201.062(a), Estates Code, is amended to |
|
read as follows: |
|
(a) A probate court may enter an order declaring that the |
|
parent of a child under 18 years of age may not inherit from or |
|
through the child under the laws of descent and distribution if the |
|
court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the parent has: |
|
(1) voluntarily abandoned and failed to support the |
|
child in accordance with the parent's obligation or ability for at |
|
least three years before the date of the child's death, and did not |
|
resume support for the child before that date; |
|
(2) voluntarily and with knowledge of the pregnancy: |
|
(A) abandoned the child's mother beginning at a |
|
time during her pregnancy with the child and continuing through the |
|
birth; |
|
(B) failed to provide adequate support or medical |
|
care for the mother during the period of abandonment before the |
|
child's birth; and |
|
(C) remained apart from and failed to support the |
|
child since birth; or |
|
(3) been convicted or has been placed on community |
|
supervision, including deferred adjudication community |
|
supervision, for being criminally responsible for the death or |
|
serious injury of a child under the following sections of the Penal |
|
Code or adjudicated under Title 3, Family Code, for conduct that |
|
caused the death or serious injury of a child and that would |
|
constitute a violation of one of the following sections of the Penal |
|
Code: |
|
(A) Section 19.02 (murder); |
|
(B) Section 19.03 (capital murder); |
|
(C) Section 19.04 (manslaughter); |
|
(D) Section 19.07 (lethal opioid poisoning); |
|
(E) Section 21.11 (indecency with a child); |
|
(F) [(E)] Section 22.01 (assault); |
|
(G) [(F)] Section 22.011 (sexual assault); |
|
(H) [(G)] Section 22.02 (aggravated assault); |
|
(I) [(H)] Section 22.021 (aggravated sexual |
|
assault); |
|
(J) [(I)] Section 22.04 (injury to a child, |
|
elderly individual, or disabled individual); |
|
(K) [(J)] Section 22.041 (abandoning or |
|
endangering child); |
|
(L) [(K)] Section 25.02 (prohibited sexual |
|
conduct); |
|
(M) [(L)] Section 43.25 (sexual performance by a |
|
child); or |
|
(N) [(M)] Section 43.26 (possession or promotion |
|
of child pornography). |
|
SECTION 13. Section 53.045(a), Family Code, is amended to |
|
read as follows: |
|
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (e), the prosecuting |
|
attorney may refer the petition to the grand jury of the county in |
|
which the court in which the petition is filed presides if the |
|
petition alleges that the child engaged in delinquent conduct that |
|
constitutes habitual felony conduct as described by Section 51.031 |
|
or that included the violation of any of the following provisions: |
|
(1) Section 19.02, Penal Code (murder); |
|
(2) Section 19.03, Penal Code (capital murder); |
|
(3) Section 19.04, Penal Code (manslaughter); |
|
(4) Section 20.04, Penal Code (aggravated |
|
kidnapping); |
|
(5) Section 22.011, Penal Code (sexual assault) or |
|
Section 22.021, Penal Code (aggravated sexual assault); |
|
(6) Section 22.02, Penal Code (aggravated assault); |
|
(7) Section 29.03, Penal Code (aggravated robbery); |
|
(8) Section 22.04, Penal Code (injury to a child, |
|
elderly individual, or disabled individual), if the offense is |
|
punishable as a felony, other than a state jail felony; |
|
(9) Section 22.05(b), Penal Code (felony deadly |
|
conduct involving discharging a firearm); |
|
(10) Subchapter D, Chapter 481, Health and Safety |
|
Code, if the conduct constitutes a felony of the first degree or an |
|
aggravated controlled substance felony (certain offenses involving |
|
controlled substances); |
|
(11) Section 15.03, Penal Code (criminal |
|
solicitation); |
|
(12) Section 21.11(a)(1), Penal Code (indecency with a |
|
child); |
|
(13) Section 15.031, Penal Code (criminal |
|
solicitation of a minor); |
|
(14) Section 15.01, Penal Code (criminal attempt), if |
|
the offense attempted was an offense under Section 19.02, Penal |
|
Code (murder), or Section 19.03, Penal Code (capital murder), or an |
|
offense listed by Article 42A.054(a), Code of Criminal Procedure; |
|
(15) Section 28.02, Penal Code (arson), if bodily |
|
injury or death is suffered by any person by reason of the |
|
commission of the conduct; |
|
(16) Section 49.08, Penal Code (intoxication |
|
manslaughter); [or] |
|
(17) Section 19.07, Penal Code (lethal opioid |
|
poisoning); or |
|
(18) Section 15.02, Penal Code (criminal conspiracy), |
|
if the offense made the subject of the criminal conspiracy includes |
|
a violation of any of the provisions referenced in Subdivisions (1) |
|
through (17) [(16)]. |
|
SECTION 14. Section 161.001(b), Family Code, is amended to |
|
read as follows: |
|
(b) The court may order termination of the parent-child |
|
relationship if the court finds by clear and convincing evidence: |
|
(1) that the parent has: |
|
(A) voluntarily left the child alone or in the |
|
possession of another not the parent and expressed an intent not to |
|
return; |
|
(B) voluntarily left the child alone or in the |
|
possession of another not the parent without expressing an intent |
|
to return, without providing for the adequate support of the child, |
|
and remained away for a period of at least three months; |
|
(C) voluntarily left the child alone or in the |
|
possession of another without providing adequate support of the |
|
child and remained away for a period of at least six months; |
|
(D) knowingly placed or knowingly allowed the |
|
child to remain in conditions or surroundings which endanger the |
|
physical or emotional well-being of the child; |
|
(E) engaged in conduct or knowingly placed the |
|
child with persons who engaged in conduct which endangers the |
|
physical or emotional well-being of the child; |
|
(F) failed to support the child in accordance |
|
with the parent's ability during a period of one year ending within |
|
six months of the date of the filing of the petition; |
|
(G) abandoned the child without identifying the |
|
child or furnishing means of identification, and the child's |
|
identity cannot be ascertained by the exercise of reasonable |
|
diligence; |
|
(H) voluntarily, and with knowledge of the |
|
pregnancy, abandoned the mother of the child beginning at a time |
|
during her pregnancy with the child and continuing through the |
|
birth, failed to provide adequate support or medical care for the |
|
mother during the period of abandonment before the birth of the |
|
child, and remained apart from the child or failed to support the |
|
child since the birth; |
|
(I) contumaciously refused to submit to a |
|
reasonable and lawful order of a court under Subchapter D, Chapter |
|
261; |
|
(J) been the major cause of: |
|
(i) the failure of the child to be enrolled |
|
in school as required by the Education Code; or |
|
(ii) the child's absence from the child's |
|
home without the consent of the parents or guardian for a |
|
substantial length of time or without the intent to return; |
|
(K) executed before or after the suit is filed an |
|
unrevoked or irrevocable affidavit of relinquishment of parental |
|
rights as provided by this chapter; |
|
(L) been convicted or has been placed on |
|
community supervision, including deferred adjudication community |
|
supervision, for being criminally responsible for the death or |
|
serious injury of a child under the following sections of the Penal |
|
Code, or under a law of another jurisdiction that contains elements |
|
that are substantially similar to the elements of an offense under |
|
one of the following Penal Code sections, or adjudicated under |
|
Title 3 for conduct that caused the death or serious injury of a |
|
child and that would constitute a violation of one of the following |
|
Penal Code sections: |
|
(i) Section 19.02 (murder); |
|
(ii) Section 19.03 (capital murder); |
|
(iii) Section 19.04 (manslaughter); |
|
(iv) Section 19.07 (lethal opioid |
|
poisoning); |
|
(v) Section 21.11 (indecency with a child); |
|
(vi) [(v)] Section 22.01 (assault); |
|
(vii) [(vi)] Section 22.011 (sexual |
|
assault); |
|
(viii) [(vii)] Section 22.02 (aggravated |
|
assault); |
|
(ix) [(viii)] Section 22.021 (aggravated |
|
sexual assault); |
|
(x) [(ix)] Section 22.04 (injury to a |
|
child, elderly individual, or disabled individual); |
|
(xi) [(x)] Section 22.041 (abandoning or |
|
endangering child); |
|
(xii) [(xi)] Section 25.02 (prohibited |
|
sexual conduct); |
|
(xiii) [(xii)] Section 43.25 (sexual |
|
performance by a child); |
|
(xiv) [(xiii)] Section 43.26 (possession or |
|
promotion of child pornography); |
|
(xv) [(xiv)] Section 21.02 (continuous |
|
sexual abuse of young child or disabled individual); |
|
(xvi) [(xv)] Section 20A.02(a)(7) or (8) |
|
(trafficking of persons); and |
|
(xvii) [(xvi)] Section 43.05(a)(2) |
|
(compelling prostitution); |
|
(M) had his or her parent-child relationship |
|
terminated with respect to another child based on a finding that the |
|
parent's conduct was in violation of Paragraph (D) or (E) or |
|
substantially equivalent provisions of the law of another state; |
|
(N) constructively abandoned the child who has |
|
been in the permanent or temporary managing conservatorship of the |
|
Department of Family and Protective Services for not less than six |
|
months, and: |
|
(i) the department has made reasonable |
|
efforts to return the child to the parent; |
|
(ii) the parent has not regularly visited |
|
or maintained significant contact with the child; and |
|
(iii) the parent has demonstrated an |
|
inability to provide the child with a safe environment; |
|
(O) failed to comply with the provisions of a |
|
court order that specifically established the actions necessary for |
|
the parent to obtain the return of the child who has been in the |
|
permanent or temporary managing conservatorship of the Department |
|
of Family and Protective Services for not less than nine months as a |
|
result of the child's removal from the parent under Chapter 262 for |
|
the abuse or neglect of the child; |
|
(P) used a controlled substance, as defined by |
|
Chapter 481, Health and Safety Code, in a manner that endangered the |
|
health or safety of the child, and: |
|
(i) failed to complete a court-ordered |
|
substance abuse treatment program; or |
|
(ii) after completion of a court-ordered |
|
substance abuse treatment program, continued to abuse a controlled |
|
substance; |
|
(Q) knowingly engaged in criminal conduct that |
|
has resulted in the parent's: |
|
(i) conviction of an offense; and |
|
(ii) confinement or imprisonment and |
|
inability to care for the child for not less than two years from the |
|
date of filing the petition; |
|
(R) been the cause of the child being born |
|
addicted to alcohol or a controlled substance, other than a |
|
controlled substance legally obtained by prescription; |
|
(S) voluntarily delivered the child to a |
|
designated emergency infant care provider under Section 262.302 |
|
without expressing an intent to return for the child; |
|
(T) been convicted of: |
|
(i) the murder of the other parent of the |
|
child under Section 19.02 or 19.03, Penal Code, or under a law of |
|
another state, federal law, the law of a foreign country, or the |
|
Uniform Code of Military Justice that contains elements that are |
|
substantially similar to the elements of an offense under Section |
|
19.02 or 19.03, Penal Code; |
|
(ii) criminal attempt under Section 15.01, |
|
Penal Code, or under a law of another state, federal law, the law of |
|
a foreign country, or the Uniform Code of Military Justice that |
|
contains elements that are substantially similar to the elements of |
|
an offense under Section 15.01, Penal Code, to commit the offense |
|
described by Subparagraph (i); |
|
(iii) criminal solicitation under Section |
|
15.03, Penal Code, or under a law of another state, federal law, the |
|
law of a foreign country, or the Uniform Code of Military Justice |
|
that contains elements that are substantially similar to the |
|
elements of an offense under Section 15.03, Penal Code, of the |
|
offense described by Subparagraph (i); or |
|
(iv) the sexual assault of the other parent |
|
of the child under Section 22.011 or 22.021, Penal Code, or under a |
|
law of another state, federal law, or the Uniform Code of Military |
|
Justice that contains elements that are substantially similar to |
|
the elements of an offense under Section 22.011 or 22.021, Penal |
|
Code; or |
|
(U) been placed on community supervision, |
|
including deferred adjudication community supervision, or another |
|
functionally equivalent form of community supervision or |
|
probation, for being criminally responsible for the sexual assault |
|
of the other parent of the child under Section 22.011 or 22.021, |
|
Penal Code, or under a law of another state, federal law, or the |
|
Uniform Code of Military Justice that contains elements that are |
|
substantially similar to the elements of an offense under Section |
|
22.011 or 22.021, Penal Code; and |
|
(2) that termination is in the best interest of the |
|
child. |
|
SECTION 15. Section 262.2015(b), Family Code, is amended to |
|
read as follows: |
|
(b) The court may find under Subsection (a) that a parent |
|
has subjected the child to aggravated circumstances if: |
|
(1) the parent abandoned the child without |
|
identification or a means for identifying the child; |
|
(2) the child or another child of the parent is a |
|
victim of serious bodily injury or sexual abuse inflicted by the |
|
parent or by another person with the parent's consent; |
|
(3) the parent has engaged in conduct against the |
|
child or another child of the parent that would constitute an |
|
offense under the following provisions of the Penal Code: |
|
(A) Section 19.02 (murder); |
|
(B) Section 19.03 (capital murder); |
|
(C) Section 19.04 (manslaughter); |
|
(D) Section 21.11 (indecency with a child); |
|
(E) Section 22.011 (sexual assault); |
|
(F) Section 22.02 (aggravated assault); |
|
(G) Section 22.021 (aggravated sexual assault); |
|
(H) Section 22.04 (injury to a child, elderly |
|
individual, or disabled individual); |
|
(I) Section 22.041 (abandoning or endangering |
|
child); |
|
(J) Section 25.02 (prohibited sexual conduct); |
|
(K) Section 43.25 (sexual performance by a |
|
child); |
|
(L) Section 43.26 (possession or promotion of |
|
child pornography); |
|
(M) Section 21.02 (continuous sexual abuse of |
|
young child or disabled individual); |
|
(N) Section 43.05(a)(2) (compelling |
|
prostitution); [or] |
|
(O) Section 20A.02(a)(7) or (8) (trafficking of |
|
persons); or |
|
(P) Section 19.07 (lethal opioid poisoning); |
|
(4) the parent voluntarily left the child alone or in |
|
the possession of another person not the parent of the child for at |
|
least six months without expressing an intent to return and without |
|
providing adequate support for the child; |
|
(5) the parent has been convicted for: |
|
(A) the murder of another child of the parent and |
|
the offense would have been an offense under 18 U.S.C. Section |
|
1111(a) if the offense had occurred in the special maritime or |
|
territorial jurisdiction of the United States; |
|
(B) the voluntary manslaughter of another child |
|
of the parent and the offense would have been an offense under 18 |
|
U.S.C. Section 1112(a) if the offense had occurred in the special |
|
maritime or territorial jurisdiction of the United States; |
|
(C) aiding or abetting, attempting, conspiring, |
|
or soliciting an offense under Paragraph (A) or (B); or |
|
(D) the felony assault of the child or another |
|
child of the parent that resulted in serious bodily injury to the |
|
child or another child of the parent; or |
|
(6) the parent is required under any state or federal |
|
law to register with a sex offender registry. |
|
SECTION 16. Subchapter A, Chapter 411, Government Code, is |
|
amended by adding Section 411.02094 to read as follows: |
|
Sec. 411.02094. FENTANYL OFFENSES ENFORCEMENT TRAINING |
|
PROGRAM. (a) The department, in coordination with local law |
|
enforcement agencies, shall establish and administer a fentanyl |
|
offenses enforcement training program for peace officers employed |
|
by local law enforcement agencies that will prepare the officers |
|
to: |
|
(1) collaborate and cooperate with and assist any law |
|
enforcement agency in the interdiction, investigation, and |
|
prosecution of offenses under Section 481.1123, Health and Safety |
|
Code; and |
|
(2) collaborate and cooperate with and assist district |
|
attorneys, county attorneys, the border prosecution unit, and other |
|
prosecutors in the investigation and prosecution of allegations of |
|
offenses under Section 481.1123, Health and Safety Code. |
|
(b) The training program under Subsection (a) must include: |
|
(1) information on: |
|
(A) criminal activity related to a controlled |
|
substance listed in Penalty Group 1-B under Section 481.1022, |
|
Health and Safety Code, occurring along the Texas-Mexico border, |
|
including manufacture and delivery of those controlled substances |
|
carried out by cartels, transnational gangs, and other groups |
|
engaged in organized criminal activity; and |
|
(B) methods for identifying intrastate criminal |
|
activity associated with the manufacture or delivery of a |
|
controlled substance listed in Penalty Group 1-B under Section |
|
481.1022, Health and Safety Code, and other organized criminal |
|
activity related to those controlled substances; and |
|
(2) best practices for: |
|
(A) investigating and prosecuting the criminal |
|
activity described by Subdivision (1); and |
|
(B) the safest method, as determined by the |
|
Health and Human Services Commission, for handling a controlled |
|
substance listed in Penalty Group 1-B under Section 481.1022, |
|
Health and Safety Code. |
|
SECTION 17. Section 411.074(b), Government Code, is amended |
|
to read as follows: |
|
(b) A person may not be granted an order of nondisclosure of |
|
criminal history record information under this subchapter and is |
|
not entitled to petition the court for an order of nondisclosure |
|
under this subchapter if: |
|
(1) the person requests the order of nondisclosure |
|
for, or the person has been previously convicted of or placed on |
|
deferred adjudication community supervision for: |
|
(A) an offense requiring registration as a sex |
|
offender under Chapter 62, Code of Criminal Procedure; |
|
(B) an offense under Section 20.04, Penal Code, |
|
regardless of whether the offense is a reportable conviction or |
|
adjudication for purposes of Chapter 62, Code of Criminal |
|
Procedure; |
|
(C) an offense under Section 19.02, 19.03, 19.07, |
|
20A.02, 20A.03, 22.04, 22.041, 25.07, 25.072, or 42.072, Penal |
|
Code; or |
|
(D) any other offense involving family violence, |
|
as defined by Section 71.004, Family Code; or |
|
(2) the court makes an affirmative finding that the |
|
offense for which the order of nondisclosure is requested involved |
|
family violence, as defined by Section 71.004, Family Code. |
|
SECTION 18. Section 411.1471(a), Government Code, is |
|
amended to read as follows: |
|
(a) This section applies to a defendant who is: |
|
(1) arrested for a felony prohibited under any of the |
|
following Penal Code sections: |
|
(A) Section 19.02; |
|
(B) Section 19.03; |
|
(C) Section 19.07; |
|
(D) Section 20.03; |
|
(E) [(D)] Section 20.04; |
|
(F) [(E)] Section 20.05; |
|
(G) [(F)] Section 20.06; |
|
(H) [(G)] Section 20A.02; |
|
(I) [(H)] Section 20A.03; |
|
(J) [(I)] Section 21.02; |
|
(K) [(J)] Section 21.11; |
|
(L) [(K)] Section 22.01; |
|
(M) [(L)] Section 22.011; |
|
(N) [(M)] Section 22.02; |
|
(O) [(N)] Section 22.021; |
|
(P) [(O)] Section 25.02; |
|
(Q) [(P)] Section 29.02; |
|
(R) [(Q)] Section 29.03; |
|
(S) [(R)] Section 30.02; |
|
(T) [(S)] Section 31.03; |
|
(U) [(T)] Section 43.03; |
|
(V) [(U)] Section 43.04; |
|
(W) [(V)] Section 43.05; |
|
(X) [(W)] Section 43.25; or |
|
(Y) [(X)] Section 43.26; or |
|
(2) convicted of an offense: |
|
(A) under Title 5, Penal Code, other than an |
|
offense described by Subdivision (1), that is punishable as a Class |
|
A misdemeanor or any higher category of offense, except for an |
|
offense punishable as a Class A misdemeanor under Section 22.05, |
|
Penal Code; or |
|
(B) under Section 21.08, 25.04, 43.021, or 43.24, |
|
Penal Code. |
|
SECTION 19. Section 499.027(b), Government Code, is amended |
|
to read as follows: |
|
(b) An inmate is not eligible under this subchapter to be |
|
considered for release to intensive supervision parole if: |
|
(1) the inmate is awaiting transfer to the |
|
institutional division, or serving a sentence, for an offense for |
|
which the judgment contains an affirmative finding under Article |
|
42A.054(c) or (d), Code of Criminal Procedure; |
|
(2) the inmate is awaiting transfer to the |
|
institutional division, or serving a sentence, for an offense |
|
listed in one of the following sections of the Penal Code: |
|
(A) Section 19.02 (murder); |
|
(B) Section 19.03 (capital murder); |
|
(C) Section 19.04 (manslaughter); |
|
(D) Section 20.03 (kidnapping); |
|
(E) Section 20.04 (aggravated kidnapping); |
|
(F) Section 21.11 (indecency with a child); |
|
(G) Section 22.011 (sexual assault); |
|
(H) Section 22.02 (aggravated assault); |
|
(I) Section 22.021 (aggravated sexual assault); |
|
(J) Section 22.04 (injury to a child, elderly |
|
individual, or disabled individual); |
|
(K) Section 25.02 (prohibited sexual conduct); |
|
(L) Section 25.08 (sale or purchase of a child); |
|
(M) Section 28.02 (arson); |
|
(N) Section 29.02 (robbery); |
|
(O) Section 29.03 (aggravated robbery); |
|
(P) Section 30.02 (burglary), if the offense is |
|
punished as a first-degree felony under that section; |
|
(Q) Section 43.04 (aggravated promotion of |
|
prostitution); |
|
(R) Section 43.05 (compelling prostitution); |
|
(S) Section 43.24 (sale, distribution, or |
|
display of harmful material to minor); |
|
(T) Section 43.25 (sexual performance by a |
|
child); |
|
(U) Section 46.10 (deadly weapon in penal |
|
institution); |
|
(V) Section 15.01 (criminal attempt), if the |
|
offense attempted is listed in this subsection; |
|
(W) Section 15.02 (criminal conspiracy), if the |
|
offense that is the subject of the conspiracy is listed in this |
|
subsection; |
|
(X) Section 15.03 (criminal solicitation), if |
|
the offense solicited is listed in this subsection; |
|
(Y) Section 21.02 (continuous sexual abuse of |
|
young child or disabled individual); |
|
(Z) Section 20A.02 (trafficking of persons); |
|
(AA) Section 20A.03 (continuous trafficking of |
|
persons); [or] |
|
(BB) Section 43.041 (aggravated online promotion |
|
of prostitution); or |
|
(CC) Section 19.07 (lethal opioid poisoning); or |
|
(3) the inmate is awaiting transfer to the |
|
institutional division, or serving a sentence, for an offense under |
|
Chapter 481, Health and Safety Code, punishable by a minimum term of |
|
imprisonment or a maximum fine that is greater than the minimum term |
|
of imprisonment or the maximum fine for a first degree felony. |
|
SECTION 20. Section 508.149(a), Government Code, is amended |
|
to read as follows: |
|
(a) An inmate may not be released to mandatory supervision |
|
if the inmate is serving a sentence for or has been previously |
|
convicted of: |
|
(1) an offense for which the judgment contains an |
|
affirmative finding under Article 42A.054(c) or (d), Code of |
|
Criminal Procedure; |
|
(2) a first degree felony or a second degree felony |
|
under Section 19.02, Penal Code; |
|
(3) a capital felony under Section 19.03, Penal Code; |
|
(4) a first degree felony or a second degree felony |
|
under Section 20.04, Penal Code; |
|
(5) an offense under Section 21.11, Penal Code; |
|
(6) a felony under Section 22.011, Penal Code; |
|
(7) a first degree felony or a second degree felony |
|
under Section 22.02, Penal Code; |
|
(8) a first degree felony under Section 22.021, Penal |
|
Code; |
|
(9) a first degree felony under Section 22.04, Penal |
|
Code; |
|
(10) a first degree felony under Section 28.02, Penal |
|
Code; |
|
(11) a second degree felony under Section 29.02, Penal |
|
Code; |
|
(12) a first degree felony under Section 29.03, Penal |
|
Code; |
|
(13) a first degree felony under Section 30.02, Penal |
|
Code; |
|
(14) a felony for which the punishment is increased |
|
under Section 481.134 or Section 481.140, Health and Safety Code; |
|
(15) an offense under Section 43.25, Penal Code; |
|
(16) an offense under Section 21.02, Penal Code; |
|
(17) a first degree felony under Section 15.03, Penal |
|
Code; |
|
(18) an offense under Section 43.05, Penal Code; |
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(19) an offense under Section 20A.02, Penal Code; |
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(20) an offense under Section 20A.03, Penal Code; |
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(21) a first degree felony under Section 71.02 or |
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71.023, Penal Code; [or] |
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(22) an offense under Section 19.07, Penal Code; or |
|
(23) an offense under Section 481.1123, Health and |
|
Safety Code, punished under Subsection (d), (e), or (f) of that |
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section. |
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SECTION 21. Section 481.141, Health and Safety Code, is |
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amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: |
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(d) Punishment may not be increased under this section if |
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the defendant is also prosecuted under Section 19.07, Penal Code, |
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for conduct occurring during the same criminal episode. |
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SECTION 22. Section 301.4535(a), Occupations Code, is |
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amended to read as follows: |
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(a) The board shall suspend a nurse's license or refuse to |
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issue a license to an applicant on proof that the nurse or applicant |
|
has been initially convicted of: |
|
(1) murder under Section 19.02, Penal Code, capital |
|
murder under Section 19.03, Penal Code, [or] manslaughter under |
|
Section 19.04, Penal Code, or lethal opioid poisoning under Section |
|
19.07, Penal Code; |
|
(2) kidnapping or unlawful restraint under Chapter 20, |
|
Penal Code, and the offense was punished as a felony or state jail |
|
felony; |
|
(3) sexual assault under Section 22.011, Penal Code; |
|
(4) aggravated sexual assault under Section 22.021, |
|
Penal Code; |
|
(5) continuous sexual abuse of young child or disabled |
|
individual under Section 21.02, Penal Code, or indecency with a |
|
child under Section 21.11, Penal Code; |
|
(6) aggravated assault under Section 22.02, Penal |
|
Code; |
|
(7) intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly injuring |
|
a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual under Section |
|
22.04, Penal Code; |
|
(8) intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly |
|
abandoning or endangering a child under Section 22.041, Penal Code; |
|
(9) aiding suicide under Section 22.08, Penal Code, |
|
and the offense was punished as a state jail felony; |
|
(10) an offense involving a violation of certain court |
|
orders or conditions of bond under Section 25.07, 25.071, or |
|
25.072, Penal Code, punished as a felony; |
|
(11) an agreement to abduct a child from custody under |
|
Section 25.031, Penal Code; |
|
(12) the sale or purchase of a child under Section |
|
25.08, Penal Code; |
|
(13) robbery under Section 29.02, Penal Code; |
|
(14) aggravated robbery under Section 29.03, Penal |
|
Code; |
|
(15) an offense for which a defendant is required to |
|
register as a sex offender under Chapter 62, Code of Criminal |
|
Procedure; or |
|
(16) an offense under the law of another state, |
|
federal law, or the Uniform Code of Military Justice that contains |
|
elements that are substantially similar to the elements of an |
|
offense listed in this subsection. |
|
SECTION 23. Subchapter H, Chapter 1701, Occupations Code, |
|
is amended by adding Section 1701.359 to read as follows: |
|
Sec. 1701.359. FENTANYL OFFENSES ENFORCEMENT TRAINING |
|
PROGRAM. The commission may: |
|
(1) recognize, or with the consent of the Department |
|
of Public Safety administer or assist in administering, the |
|
fentanyl offenses enforcement training program established under |
|
Section 411.02094, Government Code, as a continuing education |
|
program for officers; and |
|
(2) credit an officer who successfully completes the |
|
program described by Subdivision (1) with the appropriate number of |
|
continuing education hours. |
|
SECTION 24. Section 19.01(b), Penal Code, is amended to |
|
read as follows: |
|
(b) Criminal homicide is murder, capital murder, |
|
manslaughter, [or] criminally negligent homicide, or lethal opioid |
|
poisoning. |
|
SECTION 25. Chapter 19, Penal Code, is amended by adding |
|
Section 19.07 to read as follows: |
|
Sec. 19.07. LETHAL OPIOID POISONING. (a) A person commits |
|
an offense if the person knowingly manufactures or delivers a |
|
controlled substance listed in Penalty Group 1-B under Section |
|
481.1022, Health and Safety Code, in violation of Section 481.1123, |
|
Health and Safety Code, and an individual dies as a result of |
|
injecting, ingesting, inhaling, or introducing into the |
|
individual's body any amount of the controlled substance |
|
manufactured or delivered by the actor, regardless of whether the |
|
controlled substance was used by itself or with another substance, |
|
including a drug, adulterant, or dilutant. |
|
(b) It is a defense to prosecution under this section that |
|
the actor's conduct in manufacturing or delivering the controlled |
|
substance was authorized under Chapter 481, Health and Safety Code, |
|
or other state or federal law. |
|
(c) If conduct that constitutes an offense under this |
|
section also constitutes an offense under another section of this |
|
chapter, the actor may be prosecuted under this section or the other |
|
law, but not both. |
|
(d) An offense under this section is a felony of the first |
|
degree. |
|
SECTION 26. Section 71.02(a), Penal Code, is amended to |
|
read as follows: |
|
(a) A person commits an offense if, with the intent to |
|
establish, maintain, or participate in a combination or in the |
|
profits of a combination or as a member of a criminal street gang, |
|
the person commits or conspires to commit one or more of the |
|
following: |
|
(1) murder, capital murder, lethal opioid poisoning, |
|
arson, aggravated robbery, robbery, burglary, theft, aggravated |
|
kidnapping, kidnapping, aggravated assault, aggravated sexual |
|
assault, sexual assault, continuous sexual abuse of young child or |
|
disabled individual, solicitation of a minor, forgery, deadly |
|
conduct, assault punishable as a Class A misdemeanor, burglary of a |
|
motor vehicle, or unauthorized use of a motor vehicle; |
|
(2) any gambling offense punishable as a Class A |
|
misdemeanor; |
|
(3) promotion of prostitution, aggravated promotion |
|
of prostitution, or compelling prostitution; |
|
(4) unlawful manufacture, transportation, repair, or |
|
sale of firearms or prohibited weapons; |
|
(5) unlawful manufacture, delivery, dispensation, or |
|
distribution of a controlled substance or dangerous drug, or |
|
unlawful possession of a controlled substance or dangerous drug |
|
through forgery, fraud, misrepresentation, or deception; |
|
(5-a) causing the unlawful delivery, dispensation, or |
|
distribution of a controlled substance or dangerous drug in |
|
violation of Subtitle B, Title 3, Occupations Code; |
|
(6) any unlawful wholesale promotion or possession of |
|
any obscene material or obscene device with the intent to wholesale |
|
promote the same; |
|
(7) any offense under Subchapter B, Chapter 43, |
|
depicting or involving conduct by or directed toward a child |
|
younger than 18 years of age; |
|
(8) any felony offense under Chapter 32; |
|
(9) any offense under Chapter 36; |
|
(10) any offense under Chapter 34, 35, or 35A; |
|
(11) any offense under Section 37.11(a); |
|
(12) any offense under Chapter 20A; |
|
(13) any offense under Section 37.10; |
|
(14) any offense under Section 38.06, 38.07, 38.09, or |
|
38.11; |
|
(15) any offense under Section 42.10; |
|
(16) any offense under Section 46.06(a)(1) or 46.14; |
|
(17) any offense under Section 20.05 or 20.06; |
|
(18) any offense under Section 16.02; or |
|
(19) any offense classified as a felony under the Tax |
|
Code. |
|
SECTION 27. (a) The fentanyl offenses enforcement task |
|
force is established under this section to: |
|
(1) compile data on criminal activity in the |
|
Texas-Mexico border region related to the manufacture or delivery |
|
of a controlled substance listed in Penalty Group 1-B under Section |
|
481.1022, Health and Safety Code; and |
|
(2) develop best practices for: |
|
(A) investigating, interdicting, and prosecuting |
|
criminal activity that constitutes an offense under Section |
|
481.1123, Health and Safety Code; and |
|
(B) safely handling a controlled substance |
|
listed in Penalty Group 1-B under Section 481.1022, Health and |
|
Safety Code. |
|
(b) The governor shall appoint to the task force: |
|
(1) two members representing the Department of Public |
|
Safety; |
|
(2) two members representing the Health and Human |
|
Services Commission; and |
|
(3) two members representing the Texas Commission on |
|
Law Enforcement. |
|
(c) Not later than six months after the date the governor |
|
appoints members to the task force, the task force shall submit to |
|
the governor and the director of the Department of Public Safety a |
|
report containing the data and best practices described by |
|
Subsection (a) of this section. |
|
(d) The task force established under this section is |
|
abolished and this section expires December 1, 2024. |
|
SECTION 28. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails |
|
over another Act of the 88th Legislature, Regular Session, 2023, |
|
relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted |
|
codes. |
|
SECTION 29. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |