Bill Text: TX HB1667 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub


Bill Title: Relating to increasing the punishment for the offense of promotion of prostitution.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-10 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB1667 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB1667-Comm_Sub.html
  85R6425 LHC-D
 
  By: Meyer, Thompson of Harris, Parker H.B. No. 1667
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to increasing the punishment for the offense of promotion
  of prostitution.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 43.03(b), Penal Code, is amended to read
  as follows:
         (b)  An offense under this section is a state jail felony
  [Class A misdemeanor], except that the offense is:
               (1)  a felony of the third degree [state jail felony] if
  the actor has been previously convicted of an offense under this
  section; or
               (2)  a felony of the second degree if the actor engages
  in conduct described by Subsection (a)(1) or (2) involving a person
  younger than 18 years of age engaging in prostitution, regardless
  of whether the actor knows the age of the person at the time of [the
  actor commits] the offense.
         SECTION 2.  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 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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