Bill Text: TX HB347 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the prosecution of the offense of invasive visual recording in a lactation room.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB347 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB347-Introduced.html

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89R1639 LHC-D
By: Talarico H.B. No. 347

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the prosecution of the offense of invasive visual
recording in a lactation room.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 21.15(a), Penal Code, is amended by
adding Subdivision (5) to read as follows:
(5) "Lactation room" means a room or portioned area
provided for or primarily used for the purpose of:
(A) expressing breast milk;
(B) breast-feeding an infant child; or
(C) addressing other needs related to
breast-feeding.
SECTION 2. Section 21.15(b), Penal Code, is amended to read
as follows:
(b) A person commits an offense if, without the other
person's consent and with intent to invade the privacy of the other
person, the person:
(1) photographs or by videotape or other electronic
means records, broadcasts, or transmits a visual image of an
intimate area of another person if the other person has a reasonable
expectation that the intimate area is not subject to public view;
(2) photographs or by videotape or other electronic
means records, broadcasts, or transmits a visual image of another
in a bathroom, [or] changing room, or lactation room; or
(3) knowing the character and content of the
photograph, recording, broadcast, or transmission, promotes a
photograph, recording, broadcast, or transmission described by
Subdivision (1) or (2).
SECTION 3. 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 occurred
before that date.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.