Amend CSHB 2086 by adding the following appropriately 
numbered SECTION and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:
	SECTION __.  Title 4, Civil Practices and Remedies Code, is 
amended by adding a new chapter 98A to read as follows:

SUBCHAPTER 98A. CIVIL RACKETEERING.
	Sec. 98A.001.  CIVIL RACKETEERING.  (1)  A person commits 
racketeering if for financial gain, the person knowingly engages in 
an organized enterprise that commits, facilitates, or promotes:
			(A)  any gambling offense punishable at least as a 
Class A misdemeanor;
			(B)  the promotion of prostitution, as described 
by Section 43.03, Penal Code;
			(C)  compelling prostitution, as described by 
Section 43.05, Penal Code;
			(D)  the unlawful manufacture, transportation, 
repair, or sale of firearms or prohibited weapons;
			(E)  the unlawful manufacture, delivery, 
dispensation, or distribution of a controlled substance or 
dangerous drug, or unlawful possession of a controlled substance or 
dangerous drug through forgery, fraud, misrepresentation, or 
deception;
			(F)  any offense under Subchapter B, Chapter 43, 
Penal Code, depicting or involving conduct by or directed toward a 
child younger than 18 years of age; or
			(G)  trafficking of persons, as described by 
Chapter 20A, Penal Code; and
		(2)  the event, omission, transaction, or occurrence, 
or the series of events, omissions, transactions, or occurrences, 
relating to the act that meets the requirements of Subdivision (1) 
takes place or occurs in more than one county in Texas.
	Sec. 98A.002.  SUIT TO ABATE RACKETEERING.  (a)  The 
attorney general may bring suit in the name of the state against any 
person who engages in a pattern or practice of racketeering and may 
seek to recover civil remedies, costs of suit, including reasonable 
attorney's fees, and any appropriate injunctive relief, including 
the creation of a receivership, the enforcement of a constructive 
trust, prejudgment writs of attachment under Chapter 61 for the 
purpose of the freezing, preserving, and disgorging of assets, or 
other remedies or restraints the court considers proper.
	(b)  This subchapter does not authorize suit by a person that 
sustains injury as a result of racketeering.
	(c)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, 
the provisions of sections 59.13 and 59.14, Code of Criminal 
Procedure, shall apply to any remedy under this section, and in no 
event shall the remedies herein result in the impairment of a 
security interest in property subject to a bona fide lien.
	Sec. 98A.003.  REMEDIES NOT EXCLUSIVE.  A proceeding under 
this subchapter may be in addition to or in the alternative of any 
other action, civil or criminal, available under the laws of this 
state.
	Sec. 98A.004.  EVIDENCE.  (a)  In a proceeding under this 
subchapter, the state bears the burden of proof by a preponderance 
of the evidence.
	(b)  An individual may not be held liable in damages or for 
other relief under this subchapter based on the conduct of another 
unless the finder of fact, by a preponderance of the evidence, finds 
that the individual authorized, requested, commanded, participated 
in, ratified, or recklessly tolerated the unlawful conduct of the 
other.
	(d)  A person may not be held liable in damages or for other 
relief under this subchapter based on the conduct of an agent unless 
the finder of fact, by a preponderance of the evidence, finds that a 
director or high managerial agent of the person performed, 
authorized, requested, commanded, participated in, ratified, or 
recklessly tolerated the unlawful conduct of the agent.
	(e)  A bank or savings and loan association insured by the 
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, a credit union insured by 
the National Credit Union Administration, or a holder of a money 
transmission license under Chapter 151, Finance Code, may not be 
held liable in damages or for other relief under this subchapter 
unless the finder of fact, by a preponderance of the evidence, finds 
that the board of directors performed, authorized, requested, 
commanded, participate in, ratified or recklessly tolerated the 
unlawful conduct.