78R7590 BDH-D

By:  Wise                                                         H.B. No. 2273



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to criminal solicitation of a minor using electronic 
means.        
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Sections 15.031(a) and (b), Penal Code, are 
amended to read as follows:
	(a)  A person commits an offense if, with intent that an 
offense listed by Section 3g(a)(1), Article 42.12, Code of Criminal 
Procedure, be committed, the person requests, commands, or attempts 
to induce by any means, including electronic means, a minor to 
engage in specific conduct that, under the circumstances 
surrounding the actor's conduct as the actor believes them to be, 
would constitute an offense listed by Section 3g(a)(1), Article 
42.12, or make the minor a party to the commission of an offense 
listed by Section 3g(a)(1), Article 42.12.
	(b)  A person commits an offense if, with intent that an 
offense under Section 21.11, 22.011, 22.021, or 43.25 be committed, 
the person [by any means] requests, commands, or attempts to induce 
by any means, including electronic means, a minor or another whom 
the person believes to be a minor to engage in specific conduct 
that, under the circumstances surrounding the actor's conduct as 
the actor believes them to be, would constitute an offense under one 
of those sections or would make the minor or other believed by the 
person to be a minor a party to the commission of an offense under 
one of those sections.
	SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies 
only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this 
Act.  For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before 
the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs 
before the effective date.
	(b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this 
Act is governed by the law in effect when the offense was committed, 
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.