higher penalty for injury to a child in disaster areas

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89R1733 RDR-D

By: Alvarado, Hinojosa
S.B. No. 486

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of

injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual when

committed in a disaster area or evacuated area.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 12.50(b), Penal Code, is amended to read

as follows:

(b) The increase in punishment authorized by this section

applies only to an offense under:

(1) Section 20.05;

(2) Section 20.06;

(3) Section 20.07;

(4) Section 22.01;

(5) Section 22.04;

(6) [ (5) ] Section 28.02;

(7) [ (6) ] Section 29.02;

(8) [ (7) ] Section 30.02;

(9) [ (8) ] Section 30.03;

(10) [ (9) ] Section 30.04;

(11) [ (10) ] Section 30.05; and

(12) [ (11) ] Section 31.03.

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, 2025.