Bill Text: TX HB72 | 2023 | 88th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the punishment for the offense of trafficking of persons.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-10-06 - Filed [HB72 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB72-Introduced.html
| By: Cook | H.B. No. 72 | |
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| relating to the punishment for the offense of trafficking of | ||
| persons. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 20A.02(b), Penal Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (b) Except as otherwise provided by this subsection and | ||
| Subsection (b-1), an offense under this section is a felony of the | ||
| second degree. An offense under this section is a felony of the | ||
| first degree if: | ||
| (1) the applicable conduct constitutes an offense | ||
| under Subsection (a)(5), (6), (7), or (8), regardless of whether | ||
| the actor knows the age of the child at the time of the offense; | ||
| (2) the commission of the offense results in the death | ||
| of the person who is trafficked; | ||
| (3) the commission of the offense results in the death | ||
| of an unborn child of the person who is trafficked; or | ||
| (4) the actor recruited, enticed, or obtained the | ||
| trafficked person [ |
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| (A) shelter or facility operating as a | ||
| residential treatment center that serves runaway youth, foster | ||
| children, the homeless, or persons subjected to human trafficking, | ||
| domestic violence, or sexual assault; or | ||
| (B) correctional facility while the trafficked | ||
| person was confined in the facility. | ||
| 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 occurred | ||
| before that date. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
| last day of the legislative session. | ||
