Bill Text: TX SB957 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the denial or reduction of an award otherwise payable under the Crime Victims' Compensation Act.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-16 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB957 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB957-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the denial or reduction of an award otherwise payable under the Crime Victims' Compensation Act.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-16 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB957 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB957-Comm_Sub.html
By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 957 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 3, 2021; March 11, 2021, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; | ||
April 29, 2021, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 29, 2021, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 957 | By: Whitmire |
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relating to the denial or reduction of an award otherwise payable | ||
under the Crime Victims' Compensation Act. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article 56B.107, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) Except as otherwise provided by this article, the [ |
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attorney general may deny or reduce an award otherwise payable: | ||
(1) if the claimant or victim has not substantially | ||
cooperated with an appropriate law enforcement agency; | ||
(2) if, as a result of the claimant's or victim's | ||
behavior, the claimant or victim bears a share of the | ||
responsibility for the act or omission giving rise to the claim; | ||
(3) to the extent that pecuniary loss is recouped from | ||
a collateral source; or | ||
(4) if the claimant or victim was engaging in an | ||
activity that at the time of the criminally injurious conduct was | ||
prohibited by law, including a rule. | ||
(c) The attorney general may not deny or reduce an award | ||
under Subsection (a)(1) based on the interactions of the claimant | ||
or victim with a law enforcement agency at the crime scene or | ||
hospital unless the attorney general finds that the claimant or | ||
victim, subsequent to the claimant's or victim's interactions at | ||
the crime scene or hospital, failed or refused to substantially | ||
cooperate with the law enforcement agency. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to compensation for criminally injurious conduct occurring on or | ||
after the effective date of this Act. Compensation for criminally | ||
injurious conduct occurring before the effective date of this Act | ||
is governed by the law in effect on the date the conduct occurred, | ||
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For | ||
purposes of this section, criminally injurious conduct occurred | ||
before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense | ||
underlying the conduct occurred before that date. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
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