Bill Text: TX SB1653 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the punishment for the offense of promotion of prostitution.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB1653 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1653-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the punishment for the offense of promotion of prostitution.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB1653 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1653-Comm_Sub.html
By: Huffman | S.B. No. 1653 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 6, 2023; March 16, 2023, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; | ||
April 12, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, | ||
Nays 0; April 12, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the punishment for the offense of promotion of | ||
prostitution. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 43.03(b), Penal Code, is amended to read | ||
as follows: | ||
(b) An offense under this section is a felony of the third | ||
degree, except that the offense is: | ||
(1) a felony of the second degree if the actor has been | ||
previously convicted of an offense under this section; or | ||
(2) a felony of the first degree if the actor engages | ||
in conduct described by Subsection (a)(1) or (2) involving a person | ||
younger than 18 years of age [ |
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of whether the actor knows the age of the person at the time of the | ||
offense. | ||
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. | ||
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