Bill Text: TX HB611 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the creation of the criminal offense of unlawful disclosure of residence address or telephone number.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB611 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB611-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the creation of the criminal offense of unlawful disclosure of residence address or telephone number.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB611 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB611-Comm_Sub.html
By: Capriglione, Garcia (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) | H.B. No. 611 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 2023; | ||
April 26, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Criminal Justice; May 19, 2023, reported favorably by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 19, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the creation of the criminal offense of unlawful | ||
disclosure of residence address or telephone number. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 42, Penal Code, is amended by adding | ||
Section 42.074 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 42.074. UNLAWFUL DISCLOSURE OF RESIDENCE ADDRESS OR | ||
TELEPHONE NUMBER. (a) A person commits an offense if the person | ||
posts on a publicly accessible website the residence address or | ||
telephone number of an individual with the intent to cause harm or a | ||
threat of harm to the individual or a member of the individual's | ||
family or household. | ||
(b) An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor, | ||
except that the offense is a Class A misdemeanor if the offense | ||
results in the bodily injury of: | ||
(1) the individual whose residence address or | ||
telephone number was posted on a publicly accessible website; or | ||
(2) a member of the individual's family or household. | ||
(c) This section does not apply to a public servant who | ||
posted information described by Subsection (a) to a publicly | ||
accessible website in the performance of the public servant's | ||
duties as required by or in accordance with state or federal law. | ||
(d) If conduct that constitutes an offense under this | ||
section also constitutes an offense under Section 36.06(a-1), the | ||
actor may be prosecuted under either section but not both. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
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