SECTION 2. Subdivision (9), Subsection (a), Article
56.32, Code of Criminal Procedure, is amended to read
as follows:
(9) "Pecuniary loss" means the amount of expense reasonably
and necessarily incurred as a result of personal injury
or death for:
(A) medical, hospital, nursing, or psychiatric care
or counseling, or physical therapy;
(B) actual loss of past earnings and anticipated loss
of future earnings and necessary travel expenses because
of:
(i) a disability resulting from the personal injury;
(ii) the receipt of medically indicated services related
to the disability resulting from the personal injury;
or
(iii) participation in or attendance at investigative,
prosecutorial, or judicial processes related to the
criminally injurious conduct and participation in or
attendance at any postconviction or postadjudication
proceeding relating to criminally injurious conduct;
(C) care of a child or dependent;
(D) funeral and burial expenses;
(E) loss of support to a dependent, consistent with
Article 56.41(b)(5);
(F) reasonable and necessary costs of cleaning the
crime scene;
(G) reasonable replacement costs for clothing, bedding,
or property of the victim seized as evidence or rendered
unusable as a result of the criminal investigation;
[and]
(H) reasonable and necessary costs, as provided by
Article 56.42(d), incurred by a victim of family violence
or a victim of sexual assault who is assaulted in the
victim's place of residence for relocation and housing
rental assistance payments; and
(I) reasonable and necessary costs of traveling
to and from a place of execution for the purpose of
witnessing the execution, including one night's lodging
near the place at which the execution is conducted.
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act in amending
Subdivision (9), Subsection (a), Article 56.32, Code
of Criminal Procedure, applies only to compensation
for costs incurred on or after the effective date of
this Act. Compensation for costs incurred before the
effective date of this Act is covered by the law in
effect on the date the costs were incurred, and the
former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it
receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected
to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III,
Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the
vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes
effect September 1, 2003.
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President of the Senate
Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1015 passed the Senate
on April 16, 2003, by the following vote: Yeas 31,
Nays 0; May 29, 2003, Senate refused to concur in House
amendments and requested appointment of Conference
Committee; May 30, 2003, House granted request of the
Senate; May 31, 2003, Senate adopted Conference Committee
Report by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1015 passed the House,
with amendments, on May 25, 2003, by the following
vote: Yeas 117, Nays 0, two present not voting; May
30, 2003, House granted request of the Senate for appointment
of Conference Committee; May 31, 2003, House adopted
Conference Committee Report by the following vote:
Yeas 146, Nays 0, one present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor