Bill Text: TX SB1713 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to compensation under the Crime Victims' Compensation Act for forensic medical examinations performed with respect to victims of family violence.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-12 - Committee report printed and distributed [SB1713 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB1713-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Whitmire S.B. No. 1713
(In the Senate - Filed March 11, 2011; March 23, 2011, read
first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
May 12, 2011, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 12, 2011,
sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1713 By: Whitmire

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to compensation under the Crime Victims' Compensation Act
for forensic medical examinations performed with respect to victims
of family violence.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subdivision (9), Subsection (a), Article 56.32,
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, as provided
by Article 56.42(d), incurred by a victim of family violence or a
victim of sexual assault who is assaulted in the victim's place of
residence for relocation and housing rental assistance payments;
(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; and
(K) a forensic medical examination performed
with respect to a victim of family violence.
SECTION 2. 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. 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 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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