SB486 - 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.

  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.