By: Hughes  S.B. No. 610
         (In the Senate - Filed January 26, 2023; February 17, 2023,
  read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
  March 13, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9,
  Nays 0; March 13, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to an unauthorized vote by a delegate or alternate
  delegate to a federal Article V convention; creating a criminal
  offense.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 393, Government Code, is
  amended by adding Section 393.1035 to read as follows:
         Sec. 393.1035.  CRIMINAL PENALTY. (a) A delegate or
  alternate delegate commits an offense if the delegate or alternate
  delegate knowingly casts an unauthorized vote.
         (b)  An offense under this section is a state jail felony.
         (c)  A judge granting community supervision to a defendant
  convicted of an offense under this section shall require as a
  condition of community supervision that the defendant submit to not
  less than 10 days of confinement in county jail. If a sentence of
  confinement is imposed on the revocation of community supervision,
  the term of confinement served under this subsection may not be
  credited toward completion of the sentence imposed.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
 
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