Sec. 12.48. CERTAIN OFFENSES RESULTING IN LOSS TO NURSING AND CONVALESCENT HOMES. If it is shown on the trial of an offense under Chapter 31 or 32 that, as a result of a loss incurred because of the conduct charged, a trustee was appointed and emergency assistance funds, other than funds used to pay the expenses of the trustee, were used for a nursing or convalescent home under Subchapter D, Chapter 242, Health and Safety Code, the punishment for the offense is increased to the punishment prescribed for the next higher category of offense except that a felony of the first degree is punished as a felony of the first degree.
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 439, Sec. 4, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Structure Texas Statutes
Subchapter D. Exceptional Sentences
Section 12.41. Classification of Offenses Outside This Code
Section 12.425. Penalties for Repeat and Habitual Felony Offenders on Trial for State Jail Felony
Section 12.43. Penalties for Repeat and Habitual Misdemeanor Offenders
Section 12.44. Reduction of State Jail Felony Punishment to Misdemeanor Punishment
Section 12.45. Admission of Unadjudicated Offense
Section 12.46. Use of Prior Convictions
Section 12.47. Penalty if Offense Committed Because of Bias or Prejudice
Section 12.48. Certain Offenses Resulting in Loss to Nursing and Convalescent Homes
Section 12.49. Penalty if Controlled Substance Used to Commit Offense
Section 12.50. Penalty if Offense Committed in Disaster Area or Evacuated Area