Bill Text: TX HB272 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to the prosecution of the offense of fraudulent use or possession of credit card or debit card information.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Passed) 2025-06-20 - Effective on 9/1/25 [HB272 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB272-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 272

AN ACT
relating to the prosecution of the offense of fraudulent use or
possession of credit card or debit card information.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 13A, Code of Criminal
Procedure, is amended by adding Article 13A.2551 to read as
follows:
Art. 13A.2551. FRAUDULENT USE OR POSSESSION OF CREDIT CARD
OR DEBIT CARD INFORMATION. An offense under Section 32.315, Penal
Code, may be prosecuted in any county in which the offense was
committed or in the county of residence for any person whose credit
card or debit card information was unlawfully obtained, possessed,
transferred, or used by the defendant.
SECTION 2. Article 38.19(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) This article applies to the trial of an offense under
any of the following sections of the Penal Code:
(1) Section 32.21 (Forgery);
(2) Section 32.31 (Credit Card or Debit Card Abuse);
[or]
(3) Section 32.51 (Fraudulent Use or Possession of
Identifying Information); or
(4) Section 32.315 (Fraudulent Use or Possession of
Credit Card or Debit Card Information).
SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
a criminal proceeding that commences on or after the effective date
of this Act. A criminal proceeding that commenced before the
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
date the proceeding commenced, and the former law is continued in
effect for that purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 272 was passed by the House on April
30, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 121, Nays 19, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 272 was passed by the Senate on May
26, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor