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HB4247 • 2025

Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for destruction of a flag.

Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for destruction of a flag.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Metcalf
Last action
2025-04-14
Official status
04/14/2025 H Left pending in committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for destruction of a flag.

Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for destruction of a flag.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for destruction of a flag.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  2. 2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  3. 2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  4. 2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  5. 2025-03-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  6. 2025-03-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to State Affairs

  7. 2025-03-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for destruction of a flag.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) HB 4247 - Introduced version - Bill Text

89R2844 CJD-D

By: Metcalf

H.B. No. 4247

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to increasing the criminal penalty for destruction of a

flag.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 42.11(d), Penal Code, is amended to read

as follows:

(d) An offense under this section is a
state jail felony

[
Class A misdemeanor
].

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 was

committed before that date.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.