Bill Text: TX HB270 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to civil liability for discriminatory false reports to law enforcement agencies or emergency service providers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB270 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB270-Introduced.html
| 89R474 SCL-D | ||
| By: Rosenthal | H.B. No. 270 | |
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| relating to civil liability for discriminatory false reports to law | ||
| enforcement agencies or emergency service providers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Title 4, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Chapter 100B to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 100B. LIABILITY FOR DISCRIMINATION | ||
| Sec. 100B.001. LIABILITY FOR DISCRIMINATORY FALSE REPORTS | ||
| TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND EMERGENCY SERVICE PROVIDERS. (a) A | ||
| person who submits a false report to a law enforcement agency or | ||
| emergency service provider, with the intent that the law | ||
| enforcement agency or emergency service provider take action | ||
| against a falsely accused person, is liable to the falsely accused | ||
| person for an amount not to exceed $250 if the report was submitted | ||
| due to bias or prejudice against the falsely accused person's race, | ||
| color, disability, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, | ||
| gender, sexual orientation, or gender identity. | ||
| (b) If a falsely accused person prevails in an action | ||
| brought under Subsection (a), the person may recover attorney's | ||
| fees and costs incurred in bringing the action. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 100B.001, Civil Practice and Remedies | ||
| Code, as added by this Act, applies only to a cause of action that | ||
| accrues on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
