| 1 | | - | By: Huffman, Blanco S.B. No. 1019 |
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| 1 | + | By: Huffman S.B. No. 1019 |
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| 2 | + | (In the Senate - Filed January 30, 2025; February 24, 2025, |
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| 3 | + | read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; |
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| 4 | + | March 19, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, |
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| 5 | + | Nays 0; March 19, 2025, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | + | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 6 | 9 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 7 | 10 | | AN ACT |
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| 8 | 11 | | relating to the admissibility of certain hearsay statements in the |
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| 9 | 12 | | adjudication of certain sexual or assaultive offenses committed |
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| 10 | 13 | | against a child or a person with a disability. |
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| 11 | 14 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 12 | 15 | | SECTION 1. Sections 54.031(a) and (d), Family Code, are |
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| 13 | 16 | | amended to read as follows: |
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| 14 | 17 | | (a) This section applies to a hearing under this title in |
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| 15 | 18 | | which a child is alleged to be a delinquent child on the basis of a |
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| 16 | 19 | | violation of any of the following provisions of the Penal Code, if a |
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| 17 | 20 | | child 18 [12] years of age or younger or a person with a disability |
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| 18 | 21 | | is the alleged victim of the violation: |
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| 19 | 22 | | (1) Chapter 21 (Sexual Offenses) or 22 (Assaultive |
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| 20 | 23 | | Offenses); |
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| 21 | 24 | | (2) Section 25.02 (Prohibited Sexual Conduct); |
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| 22 | 25 | | (3) Section 43.25 (Sexual Performance by a Child); |
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| 23 | 26 | | (4) Section 20A.02(a)(7) or (8) (Trafficking of |
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| 24 | 27 | | Persons); or |
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| 25 | 28 | | (5) Section 43.05(a)(2) (Compelling Prostitution). |
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| 26 | 29 | | (d) In this section, "person with a disability" has the same |
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| 27 | 30 | | meaning as "disabled individual" as defined by Section 22.04, Penal |
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| 28 | 31 | | Code [means a person 13 years of age or older who because of age or |
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| 29 | 32 | | physical or mental disease, disability, or injury is substantially |
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| 30 | 33 | | unable to protect the person's self from harm or to provide food, |
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| 31 | 34 | | shelter, or medical care for the person's self]. |
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| 32 | 35 | | SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply to a |
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| 33 | 36 | | case in a juvenile court that commences on or after the effective |
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