Bill Text: TX HB883 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to using the Internet to obtain identifying information about an elderly individual for a fraudulent purpose.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-28 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB883 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB883-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 883 | ||
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| relating to using the Internet to obtain identifying information | ||
| about an elderly individual for a fraudulent purpose. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 325.006, Business & Commerce Code, is | ||
| amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (f) to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (c) The court may increase the amount of an award of actual | ||
| damages in an action brought under this section to an amount not to | ||
| exceed three times the actual damages sustained if the court finds | ||
| that the violation: | ||
| (1) has reoccurred with sufficient frequency to | ||
| constitute a pattern or practice; or | ||
| (2) adversely affected an elderly individual. | ||
| (f) In this section, "elderly individual" has the meaning | ||
| assigned by Section 22.04, Penal Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 883 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 18, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 883 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 15, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
