Bill Text: TX SB146 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to compensation to victims of stalking for relocation and housing rental expenses.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-01-27 - Referred to Criminal Justice [SB146 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB146-Introduced.html
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By: Rodríguez | S.B. No. 146 |
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relating to compensation to victims of stalking for relocation and | ||
housing rental expenses. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article 56.32(a)(9), Code of Criminal Procedure, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
(9) "Pecuniary loss" means the amount of expense | ||
reasonably and necessarily incurred as a result of personal injury | ||
or death for: | ||
(A) medical, hospital, nursing, or psychiatric | ||
care or counseling, or physical therapy; | ||
(B) actual loss of past earnings and anticipated | ||
loss of future earnings and necessary travel expenses because of: | ||
(i) a disability resulting from the | ||
personal injury; | ||
(ii) the receipt of medically indicated | ||
services related to the disability resulting from the personal | ||
injury; or | ||
(iii) participation in or attendance at | ||
investigative, prosecutorial, or judicial processes related to the | ||
criminally injurious conduct and participation in or attendance at | ||
any postconviction or postadjudication proceeding relating to | ||
criminally injurious conduct; | ||
(C) care of a child or dependent; | ||
(D) funeral and burial expenses, including, for | ||
an immediate family member or household member of the victim, the | ||
necessary expenses of traveling to and attending the funeral; | ||
(E) loss of support to a dependent, consistent | ||
with Article 56.41(b)(5); | ||
(F) reasonable and necessary costs of cleaning | ||
the crime scene; | ||
(G) reasonable replacement costs for clothing, | ||
bedding, or property of the victim seized as evidence or rendered | ||
unusable as a result of the criminal investigation; | ||
(H) reasonable and necessary costs for | ||
relocation and housing rental assistance payments [ |
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by Article 56.42(d)[ |
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(I) for an immediate family member or household | ||
member of a deceased victim, bereavement leave of not more than 10 | ||
work days; and | ||
(J) reasonable and necessary costs of traveling | ||
to and from a place of execution for the purpose of witnessing the | ||
execution, including one night's lodging near the place at which | ||
the execution is conducted. | ||
SECTION 2. Article 56.42(d), Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(d) A victim who is a victim of stalking, family violence, | ||
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assault who is assaulted in the victim's place of residence, may | ||
receive a onetime-only assistance payment in an amount not to | ||
exceed: | ||
(1) $2,000 to be used for relocation expenses, | ||
including expenses for rental deposit, utility connections, | ||
expenses relating to the moving of belongings, motor vehicle | ||
mileage expenses, and for out-of-state moves, transportation, | ||
lodging, and meals; and | ||
(2) $1,800 to be used for housing rental expenses. | ||
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a victim of a criminal offense committed or a violation that | ||
occurs on or after the effective date of this Act. The victim of a | ||
criminal offense committed or a violation that occurs before the | ||
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the | ||
date the offense was committed or the violation occurred, and the | ||
former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of | ||
this section, a criminal offense was committed or a violation | ||
occurred before the effective date of this Act if any element of the | ||
offense or violation occurred before that date. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |