Bill Text: TX SB2271 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to compensation under the Crime Victims' Compensation Act for certain expenses.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-02 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB2271 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2271-Comm_Sub.html
By: Miles | S.B. No. 2271 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2019; March 21, 2019, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; | ||
April 23, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, | ||
Nays 0; April 23, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to compensation under the Crime Victims' Compensation Act | ||
for certain expenses. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article 56.42(d), Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(d) A [ |
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or trafficking of persons, [ |
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assaulted in the victim's place of residence, or a child who is a | ||
victim of a murder attempt in the child's place of residence may | ||
receive a onetime-only assistance payment in an amount not to | ||
exceed: | ||
(1) $2,000 to be used for relocation expenses, | ||
including expenses for rental deposit, utility connections, | ||
expenses relating to the moving of belongings, motor vehicle | ||
mileage expenses, and for out-of-state moves, transportation, | ||
lodging, and meals; and | ||
(2) $1,800 to be used for housing rental expenses. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a victim of a criminal offense committed on or after the | ||
effective date of this Act. A criminal 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, a criminal | ||
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. | ||
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