CRIMINAL PENALTY; PROSECUTION OF OFFENSE
Applied in 26 court decisions — leading case In Re Commitment of Fisher (2005)
Most recently applied in Reed v. Taylor (May 2019)
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1188, Sec. 4.01, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) A person commits an offense if, after having been adjudicated and civilly committed as a sexually violent predator under this chapter, the person violates a civil commitment requirement imposed under Section 841.082(a)(1), (2), (4), or (5).
(b) An offense under this section is a felony of the third degree.
(c) On request of the local prosecuting attorney, the special prosecution unit may assist in the trial of an offense under this section.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.