Amend HB 783 (senate committee printing) in SECTION 1 of the bill, in added Chapter 98C, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, as follows:
(1) In Section 98C.001(1) (page 1, line 29), strike "photograph,".
(2) In Section 98C.001(1) (page 1, line 30), strike "through social media" and substitute "in visual material on a social media platform".
(3) Strike Sections 98C.001(2), (3), and (4) (page 1, lines 33 through 42) and substitute the following:
(2) "Social media platform" has the meaning assigned by Section 120.001, Business & Commerce Code.
(3) "Visual material" has the meaning assigned by Section 43.26, Penal Code.
(4) Strike Section 98C.004(a) (page 1, lines 52 through 56) and substitute the following:
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a person is liable to another person injured by the person's online impersonation if:
(1) the person knowingly and with the intent to harm, defraud, intimidate, or threaten the injured person used the online impersonation to create a false identity; and
(2) the online impersonation is, to a reasonable person, virtually indistinguishable from an actual person.