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78R2979 BDH-D
By: Miller H.B. No. 406
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to proceeds received by a person accused or convicted of a
crime from publicizing the crime.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subdivision (7), Article 59.01, Code of Criminal
Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
(7) "Proceeds" includes income a person accused or
convicted of a crime or the person's representative or assignee
receives from:
(A) a movie, book, magazine article, tape
recording, phonographic record, radio or television presentation,
telephone service, an electronic media format, including an
Internet website, or live entertainment in which the crime was
reenacted; or
(B) the sale of tangible property the value of
which is increased by the notoriety gained from the conviction of an
offense by the person accused or convicted of the crime.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.