By: Harris of Anderson, et al. H.B. No. 4520         (Senate Sponsor - Bettencourt)          (In the Senate - Received from the House May 2, 2023;   May 4, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;   May 18, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 16,   Nays 1; May 18, 2023, sent to printer.)Click here to see the committee vote         COMMITTEE VOTE              YeaNayAbsentPNV          HuffmanX          HinojosaX          BettencourtX          CampbellX          CreightonX          FloresX          HallX          HancockX          HughesX          KolkhorstX          NicholsX          PaxtonX          PerryX          SchwertnerX          WestX          WhitmireX          ZaffiriniX     A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT     relating to employment and retirement consequences for an educator   convicted of or placed on deferred adjudication community   supervision for the sale, distribution, or display of harmful   material to a minor.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Article 42.018(a), Code of Criminal Procedure,   is amended to read as follows:          (a)  This article applies only to:                (1)  conviction or deferred adjudication community   supervision granted on the basis of an offense for which a   conviction or grant of deferred adjudication community supervision   requires the defendant to register as a sex offender under Chapter   62; [or]                (2)  conviction of an offense under Title 5, Penal   Code, if the victim of the offense was under 18 years of age at the   time the offense was committed; or                (3)  conviction or deferred adjudication community   supervision granted on the basis of an offense under Section 43.24,   Penal Code.          SECTION 2.  Section 21.058(a), Education Code, is amended to   read as follows:          (a)  The procedures described by Subsections (b) and (c)   apply only to:                (1)  [to] conviction of or placement on deferred   adjudication community supervision for an offense for which a   defendant is required to register as a sex offender under Chapter   62, Code of Criminal Procedure; [or]                (2)  [to] conviction of a felony offense under Title 5,   Penal Code, if the victim of the offense was under 18 years of age at   the time the offense was committed; or                (3)  conviction of or placement on deferred   adjudication community supervision for an offense under Section   43.24, Penal Code.          SECTION 3.  Section 824.009(a), Government Code, is amended   to read as follows:          (a)  In this section, "qualifying felony" means an offense   that is punishable as a felony under the following sections of the   Penal Code:                (1)  Section 21.02 (continuous sexual abuse of young   child or disabled individual);                (2)  Section 21.12 (improper relationship between   educator and student); [or]                (3)  Section 22.011 (sexual assault) or Section 22.021   (aggravated sexual assault); or                (4)  Section 43.24 (sale, distribution, or display of   harmful material to minor).          SECTION 4.  (a) Article 42.018, Code of Criminal Procedure,   as amended by this Act, applies only to a judgment of conviction or   order granting deferred adjudication community supervision entered   on or after the effective date of this Act.          (b)  Section 824.009, Government Code, as amended by this   Act, applies only to an offense committed on or after the effective   date of this Act. An offense committed before that date 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 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.     * * * * *