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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to the offense of money laundering. |
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| 8 | 8 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 9 | 9 | | SECTION 1. Section 34.01(2), Penal Code, is amended to read |
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| 10 | 10 | | as follows: |
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| 11 | 11 | | (2) "Funds" includes: |
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| 12 | 12 | | (A) coin or paper money of the United States or |
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| 13 | 13 | | any other country that is designated as legal tender and that |
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| 14 | 14 | | circulates and is customarily used and accepted as a medium of |
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| 15 | 15 | | exchange in the country of issue; |
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| 16 | 16 | | (B) United States silver certificates, United |
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| 17 | 17 | | States Treasury notes, and Federal Reserve System notes; |
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| 18 | 18 | | (C) an official foreign bank note that is |
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| 19 | 19 | | customarily used and accepted as a medium of exchange in a foreign |
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| 20 | 20 | | country and a foreign bank draft; and |
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| 21 | 21 | | (D) currency or its equivalent, including an |
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| 22 | 22 | | electronic fund, a personal check, a bank check, a traveler's |
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| 23 | 23 | | check, a money order, a bearer negotiable instrument, a bearer |
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| 24 | 24 | | investment security, a bearer security, a certificate of stock in a |
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| 25 | 25 | | form that allows title to pass on delivery, [or] a stored value card |
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| 26 | 26 | | as defined by Section 604.001, Business & Commerce Code, or a |
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| 27 | 27 | | digital currency. |
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| 28 | 28 | | SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only |
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| 29 | 29 | | to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. |
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| 30 | 30 | | An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is |
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| 31 | 31 | | governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, |
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| 32 | 32 | | and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For |
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| 33 | 33 | | purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the |
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| 34 | 34 | | effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred |
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| 35 | 35 | | before that date. |
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| 36 | 36 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |
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