Bill Text: TX HB883 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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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-Introduced.html

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86R7962 CLG-F
By: Thierry H.B. No. 883

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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.