Tex. Penal Code § 22.08 · Chapter 22. ASSAULTIVE OFFENSES
AIDING SUICIDE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person commits an offense if, with intent to promote or assist the commission of suicide by another, he aids or attempts to aid the other to commit or attempt to commit suicide.
(b) An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor unless the actor's conduct causes suicide or attempted suicide that results in serious bodily injury, in which event the offense is a state jail felony.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.22.htm
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Cited by 4 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Penal Code § 22.08. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 166.047HONORING DIRECTIVE DOES NOT CONSTITUTE OFFENSE OF AIDING SUICIDE.Printed as Section 22.08, Penal Code
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 166.096HONORING OUT-OF-HOSPITAL DNR ORDER DOES NOT CONSTITUTE OFFENSE OF AIDING SUICIDE.Printed as Section 22.08, Penal Code
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 250.006CONVICTIONS BARRING EMPLOYMENT.Printed as Section 22.08, Penal Code
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