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

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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-Introduced.html

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88R33323 AJZ-D
By: Hughes S.R. No. 704

R E S O L U T I O N
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.