Bill Text: TX HB3852 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub


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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-24 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB3852 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3852-Comm_Sub.html
 
 
  By: Perez (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 3852
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2023;
  May 4, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
  Justice; May 19, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote:  
  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 19, 2023, sent to printer.)
Click here to see the committee vote
 
 
 
  COMMITTEE VOTE
 
 
         YeaNayAbsentPNV
         WhitmireX
         FloresX
         BettencourtX
         HinojosaX
         HuffmanX
         KingX
         MilesX
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
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.  Chapter 13, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
  amended by adding Article 13.292 to read as follows:
         Art. 13.292.  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, 2023.
 
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