Bill Text: TX HB959 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to compensation under the Crime Victims' Compensation Act for certain lost wages.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-02 - Referred to Appropriations [HB959 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB959-Introduced.html

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88R4714 MZM-D
By: Collier H.B. No. 959

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to compensation under the Crime Victims' Compensation Act
for certain lost wages.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Article 56B.106(d), Code of Criminal Procedure,
is amended to read as follows:
(d) An immediate family member or household member of a
deceased victim may not receive more than $5,000 [$1,000] in lost
wages as a result of bereavement leave taken by the family or
household member.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to compensation for criminally injurious conduct occurring on or
after the effective date of this Act. Compensation for criminally
injurious conduct occurring before the effective date of this Act
is governed by the law in effect on the date the conduct occurred,
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For
purposes of this section, criminally injurious conduct occurred
before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense
underlying the conduct occurred before that date.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.