Bill Text: TX HB844 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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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-Introduced.html
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-Introduced.html
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By: Patterson | H.B. No. 844 |
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relating to the definition of trafficking for purposes of the | ||
offense of trafficking of persons. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 20A.01(4), Penal Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(4) "Traffic" means to transport, entice, recruit, | ||
harbor, provide, solicit, patronize, or otherwise obtain another | ||
person by any means. | ||
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, 2023. |