S.B. No. 1015




AN ACT

relating to the confidentiality of certain information regarding, 
and to the compensation of, a crime victim.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 552, Government Code, is 
amended by adding Section 552.1325 to read as follows:
	Sec. 552.1325.  CRIME VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT:  CERTAIN 
INFORMATION CONFIDENTIAL.  (a)  In this section:
		(1)  "Crime victim" means a person who is a victim as 
defined by Article 56.32, Code of Criminal Procedure.
		(2)  "Victim impact statement" means a victim impact 
statement under Article 56.03, Code of Criminal Procedure.
	(b)  The following information that is held by a governmental 
body or filed with a court and that is contained in a victim impact 
statement or was submitted for purposes of preparing a victim 
impact statement is confidential:
		(1)  the name, social security number, address, and 
telephone number of a crime victim; and
		(2)  any other information the disclosure of which 
would identify or tend to identify the crime victim.
	SECTION 2.  Subdivision (9), Subsection (a), Article 56.32, 
Code of Criminal Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
		(9)  "Pecuniary loss" means the amount of expense 
reasonably and necessarily incurred as a result of personal injury 
or death for:
			(A)  medical, hospital, nursing, or psychiatric 
care or counseling, or physical therapy;
			(B)  actual loss of past earnings and anticipated 
loss of future earnings and necessary travel expenses because of:
				(i)  a disability resulting from the 
personal injury;                     
				(ii)  the receipt of medically indicated 
services related to the disability resulting from the personal 
injury; or
				(iii)  participation in or attendance at 
investigative, prosecutorial, or judicial processes related to the 
criminally injurious conduct and participation in or attendance at 
any postconviction or postadjudication proceeding relating to 
criminally injurious conduct;
			(C)  care of a child or dependent;                                           
			(D)  funeral and burial expenses;                                            
			(E)  loss of support to a dependent, consistent 
with Article 56.41(b)(5);  
			(F)  reasonable and necessary costs of cleaning 
the crime scene;           
			(G)  reasonable replacement costs for clothing, 
bedding, or property of the victim seized as evidence or rendered 
unusable as a result of the criminal investigation; [and]
			(H)  reasonable and necessary costs, as provided 
by Article 56.42(d), incurred by a victim of family violence or a 
victim of sexual assault who is assaulted in the victim's place of 
residence for relocation and housing rental assistance payments; 
and
			(I)  reasonable and necessary costs of traveling 
to and from a place of execution for the purpose of witnessing the 
execution, including one night's lodging near the place at which 
the execution is conducted.
	SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act in amending 
Subdivision (9), Subsection (a), Article 56.32, Code of Criminal 
Procedure, applies only to compensation for costs incurred on or 
after the effective date of this Act.  Compensation for costs 
incurred before the effective date of this Act is covered by the law 
in effect on the date the costs were incurred, and the former law is 
continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.

                                                                              




______________________________    ______________________________
President of the Senate             Speaker of the House
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1015 passed the Senate on 
April 16, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0; 
May 29, 2003, Senate refused to concur in House amendments and 
requested appointment of Conference Committee; May 30, 2003, House 
granted request of the Senate; May 31, 2003, Senate adopted 
Conference Committee Report by the following vote:  Yeas 30, 
Nays 0.




______________________________ 
   Secretary of the Senate             
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1015 passed the House, with 
amendments, on May 25, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 117, 
Nays 0, two present not voting; May 30, 2003, House granted request 
of the Senate for appointment of Conference Committee; 
May 31, 2003, House adopted Conference Committee Report by the 
following vote:  Yeas 146, Nays 0, one present not voting.




______________________________ 
   Chief Clerk of the House            



Approved:


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           Date



______________________________ 
          Governor