Bill Text: TX HB844 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to crime victims' compensation for criminally injurious conduct in connection with trafficking of persons.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB844 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB844-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 844 | ||
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| relating to crime victims' compensation for criminally injurious | ||
| conduct in connection with trafficking of persons. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 56B, Code of Criminal | ||
| Procedure, is amended by adding Article 56B.0035 to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| Art. 56B.0035. CRIMINALLY INJURIOUS CONDUCT. (a) For | ||
| purposes of this chapter, criminally injurious conduct includes the | ||
| solicitation or patronization of forced labor or services, | ||
| including sexual conduct, by any person if the solicitation or | ||
| patronization occurs in connection with a scheme or course of | ||
| conduct that constitutes the trafficking of persons. | ||
| (b) A victim of criminally injurious conduct described by | ||
| Subsection (a) is a trafficking victim for the purposes of grant | ||
| programs administered by the office of the governor. | ||
| 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 844 was passed by the House on May 4, | ||
| 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 2, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 844 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 18, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
