Bill Text: TX HB3005 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the confidentiality of identifying information of victims of certain offenses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-24 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB3005 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3005-Comm_Sub.html

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88R12064 MZM-D
By: Flores, Neave Criado, Morales of Harris, H.B. No. 3005
Moody

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the confidentiality of identifying information of
victims of certain offenses.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Subchapter D, Chapter 58, Code of
Criminal Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER D. CONFIDENTIALITY OF IDENTIFYING INFORMATION OF
VICTIMS OF STALKING, INVASIVE VISUAL RECORDING, OR INDECENT ASSAULT
SECTION 2. Article 58.151, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
amended to read as follows:
Art. 58.151. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "victim"
means a person who is the subject of:
(1) an offense that allegedly constitutes:
(A) stalking under Section 42.072, Penal Code;
(B) invasive visual recording under Section
21.15, Penal Code; or
(C) indecent assault under Section 22.012, Penal
Code; or
(2) an offense that is part of the same criminal
episode, as defined by Section 3.01, Penal Code, as an offense
described by Subdivision (1) [under Section 42.072, Penal Code].
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.