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Amend HB 2529 (senate committee report) in SECTION 1 of the bill, by striking added Section 20A.02(a-1), Penal Code (page 1, lines 24 through 36), and substituting the following:
(a-1) For purposes of Subsection (a)(3), "coercion" as defined by Section 1.07 includes destroying, concealing, confiscating, or withholding from the trafficked person, or threatening to destroy, conceal, confiscate, or withhold from the trafficked person, the trafficked person's actual or purported:
(1) government records; or
(2) identifying information or documents.