Bill Text: TX SR704 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction on S.B. 12.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-05-28 - Reported enrolled [SR704 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SR704-Enrolled.html

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By: Hughes S.R. No. 704

SENATE RESOLUTION
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Texas, 88th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2023, That Senate Rule 12.03 be
suspended in part as provided by Senate Rule 12.08 to enable the
conference committee appointed to resolve the differences on
Senate Bill 12 (the authority to regulate sexually oriented
performances and to restricting those performances on the
premises of a commercial enterprise, on public property, or in
the presence of an individual younger than 18 years of age;
authorizing a civil penalty; creating a criminal offense) to
consider and take action on the following matter:
Senate Rule 12.03(4) is suspended to permit the committee
to add text on a matter not included in either the house or senate
version of the bill in proposed SECTION 3 of the bill, by adding
Section 43.28(a)(1)(E), Penal Code, to read as follows:
(E) the exhibition of sexual gesticulations
using accessories or prosthetics that exaggerate male or female
sexual characteristics
Explanation: The change is necessary to add additional
conduct to the definition of sexual conduct.
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President of the Senate
I hereby certify that the
above Resolution was adopted by
the Senate on May 28, 2023, by the
following vote: Yeas 19, Nays 12.
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Secretary of the Senate