Texas: The Issue Is: Work underway to make penalty tougher for criminals who cut off ankle monitors

There is a bipartisan effort to make the penalty tougher for criminals who cut off their ankle monitors. Bills filed by State Rep. Rafael Anchia (D-Dallas), create a felony offense to remove an electronic ankle monitor, would require hospitals to be notified if a violent criminal is being allowed on campus and would make the assault of a hospital worker a 3rd-degree felony.