SB957 • 2025

Relating to the creation of the criminal offense of continuous aggravated promotion of prostitution.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Parker
Last action: 2025-05-22
Official status: 05/22/2025 H Left pending in committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relating to the creation of the criminal offense of continuous aggravated promotion of prostitution.

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Relating to the creation of the criminal offense of continuous aggravated promotion of prostitution.

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Bill History

2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in formal meeting
2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online
Left pending in committee
2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in formal meeting
2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online
Failed to receive affirmative vote in comm.
2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online
Left pending in committee
2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online
Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online
Left pending in committee
2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online
Referred directly to subcommittee by chair
2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online
Read first time
2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online
Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence
2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online
Received from the Senate
2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online
Rules suspended-Regular order of business
2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online
Vote recorded in Journal
2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online
Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online
Vote recorded in Journal
2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online
Three day rule suspended
2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote
2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online
Read 3rd time
2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online
Passed
2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote
2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online
Reported engrossed
2025-04-22 Texas Legislature Online
Placed on intent calendar
2025-03-25 Texas Legislature Online
Co-author authorized
2025-03-19 Texas Legislature Online
Reported favorably w/o amendments
2025-03-19 Texas Legislature Online
Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
2025-03-19 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report printed and distributed
2025-03-18 Texas Legislature Online
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
2025-03-18 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-03-18 Texas Legislature Online
Testimony taken in committee
2025-03-18 Texas Legislature Online
Vote taken in committee
2025-02-13 Texas Legislature Online
Read first time
2025-02-13 Texas Legislature Online
Referred to Criminal Justice
2025-01-28 Texas Legislature Online
Received by the Secretary of the Senate
2025-01-28 Texas Legislature Online
Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to the creation of the criminal offense of continuous aggravated promotion of prostitution.

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89(R) SB 957 - Engrossed version - Bill Text

By: Parker, Hagenbuch

S.B. No. 957

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the creation of the criminal offense of continuous

aggravated promotion of prostitution.

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

SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 43, Penal Code, is amended

by adding Section 43.042 to read as follows:

Sec.

43.042.

CONTINUOUS AGGRAVATED PROMOTION OF

PROSTITUTION. (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 43.04.

(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 43.04 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 two or more times in conduct

that constituted an offense under Section 43.04.

(c)

If the victim of an offense under Subsection (a) is the

same victim as a victim of an offense under Section 43.04, a

defendant may not be convicted of the offense under Section 43.04 in

the same criminal action as the offense under Subsection (a),

unless the offense under Section 43.04:

(1) is charged in the alternative;

(2)

occurred outside the period in which the offense

alleged under Subsection (a) was committed; or

(3)

is considered by the trier of fact to be a lesser

included offense of the offense alleged under Subsection (a).

(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 43.04 is alleged to have been committed

against the same victim.

(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.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.