Bill Text: TX HB3072 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the punishment for the offense of prostitution.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-19 - Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence [HB3072 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB3072-Introduced.html

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87R10305 EAS-D
By: Shaheen H.B. No. 3072

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the punishment for the offense of prostitution.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 43.02(c) and (c-1), Penal Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(c) An offense under Subsection (a) is a Class B
misdemeanor, except that the offense is:
(1) a Class A misdemeanor if the actor has previously
been convicted one or two times of an offense under Subsection (a);
or
(2) a state jail felony if the actor:
(A) has previously been convicted three or more
times of an offense under Subsection (a);
(B) is a peace officer;
(C) is a public security officer or reserve law
enforcement officer, as those terms are defined by Section
1701.001, Occupations Code; or
(D) is an employee of a public primary or
secondary school in this state.
(c-1) An offense under Subsection (b) is a Class A
misdemeanor, except that the offense is:
(1) a state jail felony if the actor:
(A) has previously been convicted of an offense
under Subsection (b);
(B) is a peace officer;
(C) is a public security officer or reserve law
enforcement officer, as those terms are defined by Section
1701.001, Occupations Code; or
(D) is an employee of a public primary or
secondary school in this state; or
(2) a felony of the second degree if the person with
whom the actor agrees to engage in sexual conduct is:
(A) younger than 18 years of age, regardless of
whether the actor knows the age of the person at the time of the
offense;
(B) represented to the actor as being younger
than 18 years of age; or
(C) believed by the actor to be younger than 18
years of age.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For
purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the
effective date of this Act if any element of the offense was
committed before that date.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.