Bill Text: TX SB1713 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to compensation under the Crime Victims' Compensation Act for forensic medical examinations performed with respect to victims of family violence.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-12 - Committee report printed and distributed [SB1713 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1713-Comm_Sub.html
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 |
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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; [ |
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(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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