Text of subsection as reenacted and amended by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 788 (S.B. 955), Sec. 1

Text of subsection as reenacted and amended by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 806 (S.B. 1212), Sec. 2, and Ch. 250 (H.B. 1778), Sec. 1.11

Text of subsection as reenacted and amended by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 788 (S.B. 955), Sec. 2

Text of subsection as reenacted and amended by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 806 (S.B. 1212), Sec. 3, and Ch. 250 (H.B. 1778), Sec. 1.12

1. (a) A person commits an offense if, during a period that is 30 or more days in duration, the person engages two or more times in conduct that constitutes an offense under Section 20A.02 against one or more victims.
2. (b) If a jury is the trier of fact, members of the jury are not required to agree unanimously on which specific conduct engaged in by the defendant constituted an offense under Section 20A.02 or on which exact date the defendant engaged in that conduct. The jury must agree unanimously that the defendant, during a period that is 30 or more days in duration, engaged in conduct that constituted an offense under Section 20A.02.

3. (c) If the victim of an offense under Subsection (a) is the same victim as a victim of an offense under Section 20A.02, a defendant may not be convicted of the offense under Section 20A.02 in the same criminal action as the offense under Subsection (a), unless the offense under Section 20A.02:

   1. (1) is charged in the alternative;
   2. (2) occurred outside the period in which the offense alleged under Subsection (a) was committed; or
   3. (3) is considered by the trier of fact to be a lesser included offense of the offense alleged under Subsection (a).
4. (d) A defendant may not be charged with more than one count under Subsection (a) if all of the conduct that constitutes an offense under Section 20A.02 is alleged to have been committed against the same victim.
5. (e) An offense under this section is a felony of the first degree, punishable by imprisonment in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for life or for any term of not more than 99 years or less than 25 years.

6. (f) This subsection applies only to a prosecution for an offense under this section based on conduct constituting an offense under Section 20A.02(a)(7) or (8), in which the actor is alleged to have caused for one or more times a trafficked child or disabled individual to engage in or become the victim of prostitution as defined by Section 43.01. It is not a defense to a prosecution described by this subsection that the trafficked child or disabled individual:

   1. (1) lacks the culpable mental state to engage in the act of prostitution; or
   2. (2) did not complete the act of prostitution.

Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 122 (H.B. 3000), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2011.

Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 332 (H.B. 10), Sec. 12, eff. September 1, 2015.

Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 602 (H.B. 2761), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2025.