| |
| |
| |
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to using the Internet to obtain identifying information |
|
|
about an elderly individual for a fraudulent purpose. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. Section 325.006, Business & Commerce Code, is |
|
|
amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (f) to |
|
|
read as follows: |
|
|
(c) The court may increase the amount of an award of actual |
|
|
damages in an action brought under this section to an amount not to |
|
|
exceed three times the actual damages sustained if the court finds |
|
|
that the violation: |
|
|
(1) has reoccurred with sufficient frequency to |
|
|
constitute a pattern or practice; or |
|
|
(2) adversely affected an elderly individual. |
|
|
(f) In this section, "elderly individual" has the meaning |
|
|
assigned by Section 22.04, Penal Code. |
|
|
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |
| |
| |
| |
______________________________ |
______________________________ |
| |
President of the Senate |
Speaker of the House |
| |
| |
|
|
I certify that H.B. No. 883 was passed by the House on April |
|
|
18, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, 2 present, not |
|
|
voting. |
|
|
|
|
|
______________________________ |
|
|
Chief Clerk of the House |
| |
| |
|
|
I certify that H.B. No. 883 was passed by the Senate on May |
|
|
15, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. |
|
|
|
|
|
______________________________ |
|
|
Secretary of the Senate |
|
|
APPROVED: _____________________ |
|
|
Date |
|
|
|
|
|
_____________________ |
|
|
Governor |