FORGERY FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT >=$750<$2500 IAT

Texas Penal Code § 32.21 defines forgery: with intent to defraud or harm another, altering, making, completing, executing, or authenticating a writing so that it purports to be the act of another who did not authorize it — a forged check or signed instrument, for example — or passing, publishing, or possessing such a writing with intent to utter it. This filing is graded under § 32.21(e-1), the value-based scheme added in 2017 for forgeries committed to obtain or attempt to obtain property or a service. Under § 32.21(e-1)(3), the offense is a Class A misdemeanor when the value of the property or service obtained or sought is $750 or more but less than $2,500. The value bracket, proved at trial, is what separates this filing from the Class B bracket below it and the state jail felony bracket above it.

Ranges are the statutory maximums for the level; enhancements, prior convictions and plea agreements change what is actually imposed.

Across 568 Texas bail settings for this charge (3 counties, Apr 2022 – Jun 2025), the median cash or surety bond was $3,000 (middle half: $2,000 – $7,500). 7% of defendants were released on a personal bond, and bail was denied in 5 cases. When this was the only charge at booking (167 records), the median was $2,500 and 11% got a personal bond.

Showing the 3 counties with the most records; use the selector for any county with at least 30. Per-charge bond settings on original magistrations, from Texas OCA bail reporting under SB 6. Bail is set case by case — these are statistics, not a prediction.

• FORGERY FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT § 32.21(d)
• FORGERY GOVT/NATIONAL INST/MONEY/SECURITY § 32.21(e)
• FORGERY FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT >=$2500<$30K IAT § 32.21(e-1)(4)
• FORGERY TO DEFRAUD OR HARM OF ANOTHER § 32.21(c)
• FORGERY FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT >=$100<$750 IAT § 32.21(e-1)(2)
• FORGERY FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT >=$30K<$150K IAT § 32.21(e-1)(5)
• FORGERY FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT ENH IAT § 32.21(e-2)