H.R. No. 2477
R E S O L U T I O N
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the State of
Texas, 88th Legislature, Regular Session, 2023, That House Rule 13,
Section 9(a), be suspended in part as provided by House Rule 13,
Section 9(f), to enable the conference committee appointed to
resolve the differences on House Bill 4635 (organized crime,
racketeering activities, and collection of unlawful debts) to
consider and take action on the following matter:
House Rule 13, Sections 9(a)(1), (2), and (3) are suspended
to permit the committee to change, alter, or amend text not in
disagreement by adding text on a matter not in disagreement and
omitting text not in disagreement in proposed SECTION 6 of the bill,
so that the text of added Section 72.01(7), Penal Code, reads as
follows:
(7) "Unlawful debt" means any money or other thing of
value constituting principal or interest of a debt that is wholly or
partly legally unenforceable in this state because the debt was
incurred or contracted:
(A) in violation of:
(i) the Texas Racing Act (Subtitle A-1,
Title 13, Occupations Code, and Article 179e, Revised Civil
Statutes);
(ii) Subtitle A, Title 4, Finance Code, or
Section 11, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, relating to interest
and usury, if the usurious rate is at least twice the enforceable
rate; or
(iii) Chapter 47, relating to gambling; or
(B) in gambling activity in violation of federal
law or in the business of lending money at a rate usurious under
state law if the usurious rate is at least twice the enforceable
rate.
Explanation: The change is necessary to provide the scope of
a usurious rate for purposes of the definition of "unlawful debt"
and make a nonsubstantive change to a citation.
Guillen
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Speaker of the House
I certify that H.R. No. 2477 was adopted by the House on May
28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 112, Nays 28, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House