Bill Text: TX SB1011 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 1011

Bill Title: Relating to the punishment for the offense of trafficking of persons.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-23 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB1011 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB1011-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Parker	S.B. No. 1011

	(Cook)


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the punishment for the offense of trafficking of
	persons.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 20A.02(b), Penal Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(b) Except as otherwise provided by this subsection and
	Subsection (b-1), an offense under this section is a felony of the
	second degree. An offense under this section is a felony of the
	first degree if:
	(1) the applicable conduct constitutes an offense
	under Subsection (a)(5), (6), (7), or (8), regardless of whether
	the actor knows the age of the child at the time of the offense;
	(2) the commission of the offense results in the death
	of the person who is trafficked;
	(3) the commission of the offense results in the death
	of an unborn child of the person who is trafficked; or
	(4) the actor recruited, enticed, or obtained the
	trafficked person [~~victim of the offense~~] from a:
	(A) shelter or facility operating as a
	residential treatment center that serves runaway youth, foster
	children, the homeless, or persons subjected to human trafficking,
	domestic violence, or sexual assault; or
	(B) correctional facility while the trafficked
	person was confined in the facility.
	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, 2023.