| 1 | 1 | | By: Miller of Erath, Harper-Brown H.B. No. 1529 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth) |
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| 3 | 3 | | (In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 2011; |
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| 4 | 4 | | April 28, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on |
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| 5 | 5 | | Criminal Justice; May 12, 2011, reported favorably by the |
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| 6 | 6 | | following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 12, 2011, sent to printer.) |
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| 7 | 7 | | |
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| 8 | 8 | | |
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| 9 | 9 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 10 | 10 | | AN ACT |
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| 11 | 11 | | relating to the offense of fraudulent use or possession of |
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| 12 | 12 | | identifying information. |
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| 13 | 13 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 14 | 14 | | SECTION 1. Section 32.51(a)(1), Penal Code, is amended to |
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| 15 | 15 | | read as follows: |
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| 16 | 16 | | (1) "Identifying information" means information that |
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| 17 | 17 | | alone or in conjunction with other information identifies a person, |
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| 18 | 18 | | including a person's: |
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| 19 | 19 | | (A) name and [social security number,] date of |
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| 20 | 20 | | birth[, or government-issued identification number]; |
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| 21 | 21 | | (B) unique biometric data, including the |
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| 22 | 22 | | person's fingerprint, voice print, or retina or iris image; |
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| 23 | 23 | | (C) unique electronic identification number, |
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| 24 | 24 | | address, routing code, or financial institution account number; |
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| 25 | 25 | | [and] |
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| 26 | 26 | | (D) telecommunication identifying information or |
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| 27 | 27 | | access device; and |
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| 28 | 28 | | (E) social security number or other |
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| 29 | 29 | | government-issued identification number. |
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| 30 | 30 | | SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only |
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| 31 | 31 | | to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. |
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| 32 | 32 | | An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is |
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| 33 | 33 | | governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, |
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| 34 | 34 | | and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For |
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| 35 | 35 | | purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the |
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| 36 | 36 | | effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred |
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| 37 | 37 | | before that date. |
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| 38 | 38 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |
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| 39 | 39 | | * * * * * |
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