Tex. Penal Code § 25.072 · Chapter 25. OFFENSES AGAINST THE FAMILY
REPEATED VIOLATION OF CERTAIN COURT ORDERS OR CONDITIONS OF BOND IN FAMILY VIOLENCE, CHILD ABUSE OR NEGLECT, SEXUAL ASSAULT OR ABUSE, INDECENT ASSAULT, STALKING, OR TRAFFICKING CASE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person commits an offense if, during a period that is 12 months or less in duration, the person two or more times engages in conduct that constitutes an offense under Section 25.07.
(b) If the jury is the trier of fact, members of the jury must agree unanimously that the defendant, during a period that is 12 months or less in duration, two or more times engaged in conduct that constituted an offense under Section 25.07.
(c) A defendant may not be convicted in the same criminal action of another offense an element of which is any conduct that is alleged as an element of the offense under Subsection (a) unless the other offense:
(1) is charged in the alternative;
(2) occurred outside the period in which the offense alleged under Subsection (a) was committed; or
(3) is considered by the trier of fact to be a lesser included offense of the offense alleged under Subsection (a).
(d) A defendant may not be charged with more than one count under Subsection (a) if all of the specific conduct that is alleged to have been engaged in is alleged to have been committed in violation of a single court order or single setting of bond.
(e) An offense under this section is a felony of the third degree, except the offense is a felony of the second degree if it is shown on the trial of the offense that at least one time the person engaged in conduct that was punishable as a state jail felony under Section 25.07(g)(1)(B).
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 96 (S.B. 743), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2013.
Amended by:
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 955 (S.B. 194), Sec. 11(d), eff. September 1, 2019.
Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 577 (H.B. 2073), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2025.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.25.htm
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Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Penal Code § 25.072. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Code of Criminal Procedure
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 13A.203PROTECTIVE ORDER OFFENSES.Printed as Section 25.07 or 25.072, Penal Code
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 56A.001DEFINITIONS.Printed as Section 25.07, 25.071, or 25.072, Penal Code
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 56A.0521ADDITIONAL RIGHTS OF VICTIMS OF CERTAIN FAMILY VIOLENCE OFFENSES, STALKING, AND VIOLATION OF PROTECTIVE ORDER OR CONDITION OF BOND.Printed as Section 25.07, 25.071, or 25.072, Penal Code
Government Code
- Tex. Gov't Code § 25.0172BEXAR COUNTY COURT AT LAW PROVISIONS.Printed as Section 25.07 or 25.072, Penal Code
- Tex. Gov't Code § 25.2223TARRANT COUNTY CRIMINAL COURT PROVISIONS.Printed as Sections 25.07, 25.072, and 42.07(a)(2), Penal Code
- Tex. Gov't Code § 411.074REQUIRED CONDITIONS FOR RECEIVING AN ORDER OF NONDISCLOSURE.Printed as Section 19.02, 19.03, 20A.02, 20A.03, 22.04, 22.041, 25.07, 25.072, or 42.072, Penal Code
- Tex. Gov't Code § 411.1711CERTAIN EXEMPTIONS FROM CONVICTIONS.Printed as Section 25.07 or 25.072, Penal Code
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