Texas HB 816: Relating to the creation of a commission to review certain penal laws of this state and to make certain recommendations regarding those laws, to criminal offenses previously compiled in statutes outside the Penal Code, to repealing certain of those offenses, and to conforming punishments for certain of those offenses to the penalty structure provided in the Penal Code; increasing the punishment for the criminal offenses of sedition, sabotage, and capital sabotage; imposing a civil penalty.

Status: Received from the House (as of 2021-04-19)

State: Texas · Session: 87 · Bill: HB 816

Subjects: CERTAIN PENAL LAWS, COMMISSION TO STUDY (V1021), CRIMINAL APPEALS, COURT OF (V1605), Crimes--Miscellaneous (I0200), Criminal Procedure--General (I0208), Governor (I0375), LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR (S0096), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE (S0306), SUPREME COURT (V0311), State Agencies, Boards & Commissions--Newly Proposed (I0773)

Sponsors: Collier, Krause, Moody, Murr

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