H.B. No. 9
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to the criminal punishment and conditions of community
  supervision for the offense of obstructing a highway or other
  passageway; increasing a criminal penalty.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter K, Chapter 42A, Code of Criminal
  Procedure, is amended by adding Article 42A.517 to read as follows:
         Art. 42A.517.  COMMUNITY SUPERVISION FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES
  INVOLVING OBSTRUCTION OF HIGHWAY OR OTHER PASSAGEWAY. A court
  granting community supervision to a defendant convicted of an
  offense punishable as a state jail felony under Section 42.03,
  Penal Code, shall require as a condition of community supervision
  that the defendant submit to not less than 10 days of confinement in
  a county jail.
         SECTION 2.  Section 42.03(c), Penal Code, is amended to read
  as follows:
         (c)  An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor,
  except that the offense is a state jail felony if, in committing the
  offense, the actor knowingly:
               (1)  prevents the passage of an authorized emergency
  vehicle, as defined by Section 541.201, Transportation Code, that
  is operating the vehicle's emergency audible or visual signals
  required by Section 546.003, Transportation Code; or
               (2)  obstructs access to a hospital licensed under
  Chapter 241, Health and Safety Code, or other health care facility
  that provides emergency medical care, as defined by Section
  773.003, Health and Safety Code.
         SECTION 3.  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 occurred
  before that date.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 9 was passed by the House on May 6,
  2021, by the following vote:  Yeas 90, Nays 55, 2 present, not
  voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 9 was passed by the Senate on May 22,
  2021, by the following vote:  Yeas 25, Nays 5.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
  APPROVED:  _____________________
                     Date          
   
            _____________________
                   Governor