By: Kolkhorst  S.B. No. 726
         (In the Senate - Filed February 6, 2023; March 1, 2023, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
  April 19, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
  Nays 0; April 19, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to enhancing the criminal penalty for the offense of
  intoxication manslaughter in certain circumstances.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 49.09(b-2), Penal Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (b-2)  An offense under Section 49.08 is a felony of the
  first degree if it is shown on the trial of the offense that the
  person caused the death of:
               (1)  a person described by Subsection (b-1); or
               (2)  more than one person during the same criminal
  transaction.
         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, 2023.
 
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