86R2077 MAW-D
 
  By: Parker, et al. H.B. No. 981
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the offense of money laundering.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 34.01(2), Penal Code, is amended to read
  as follows:
               (2)  "Funds" includes:
                     (A)  coin or paper money of the United States or
  any other country that is designated as legal tender and that
  circulates and is customarily used and accepted as a medium of
  exchange in the country of issue;
                     (B)  United States silver certificates, United
  States Treasury notes, and Federal Reserve System notes;
                     (C)  an official foreign bank note that is
  customarily used and accepted as a medium of exchange in a foreign
  country and a foreign bank draft; and
                     (D)  currency or its equivalent, including an
  electronic fund, a personal check, a bank check, a traveler's
  check, a money order, a bearer negotiable instrument, a bearer
  investment security, a bearer security, a certificate of stock in a
  form that allows title to pass on delivery, [or] a stored value card
  as defined by Section 604.001, Business & Commerce Code, or a
  digital currency.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
  An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
  governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,
  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For
  purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the
  effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred
  before that date.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.