By: Middleton S.B. No. 436

(In the Senate - Filed January 12, 2023; February 15, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; April 26, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 26, 2023, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the punishment for the offense of purchasing or selling human organs; increasing a criminal penalty.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 48.02(d), Penal Code, is amended to read as follows:

(d) An offense under [A violation of] this section is a state jail felony [Class A misdemeanor].

SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. 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. For purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred before that date.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.

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