Bill Text: TX HB1697 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the definitions of family violence and household member for purposes of crime victims' compensation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-22 - Left pending in committee [HB1697 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB1697-Introduced.html
  88R6440 CJD-D
 
  By: Collier H.B. No. 1697
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the definitions of family violence and household member
  for purposes of crime victims' compensation.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Articles 56B.003(6) and (7), Code of Criminal
  Procedure, are amended to read as follows:
               (6)  "Family violence" has the meaning assigned by
  Section 71.004 [71.004(1)], Family Code.
               (7)  "Household member" means an individual who[:
                     [(A)  is related by consanguinity or affinity to
  the victim; and
                     [(B)]  resided in the same permanent household as
  the victim at the time that the criminally injurious conduct
  occurred.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to compensation for criminally injurious conduct occurring on or
  after the effective date of this Act. Compensation for criminally
  injurious conduct occurring before the effective date of this Act
  is governed by the law in effect on the date the conduct occurred,
  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For
  purposes of this section, criminally injurious conduct occurred
  before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense
  underlying the conduct occurred before that date.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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