Texas Penal Code
§ 25.11 — CONTINUOUS VIOLENCE AGAINST THE FAMILY
PE § 25.11Title 6. OFFENSES AGAINST THE FAMILY · Ch. 25. OFFENSES AGAINST THE FAMILY
Statute text
View on source(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 22.01(a)(1) against another person or persons whose relationship to or association with the defendant is described by Section 71.0021(b), 71.003, or 71.005, Family Code.
(b)If the jury is the trier of fact, members of the jury are not required to agree unanimously on the specific conduct in which the defendant engaged that constituted an offense under Section 22.01(a)(1) against the person or persons described by Subsection (a), the exact date when that conduct occurred, or the county in which each instance of the conduct occurred. 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 22.01(a)(1) against the person or persons described by Subsection (a).
(c)A defendant may not be convicted in the same criminal action of another offense the victim of which is an alleged victim of the offense under Subsection (a) and 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).
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Legislative history
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1360 (H.B. 1661), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2019.