HB 3958
AN ACT relating to creating a civil penalty and providing for injunctive
House Bill • Lowe
89th Regular Session
Jan 14, 2025 - Jun 2, 2025 • Session ended
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What This Bill Does
relating to creating a civil penalty and providing for injunctive
Subject Areas
Bill Text
relating to creating a civil penalty and providing for injunctive relief against museums that display certain obscene or harmful BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Chapter 402, Government Code, is amended by adding Subchapter D to read as follows: Sec. 402.071. MUSEUM DISPLAYING CERTAIN OBSCENE OR HARMFUL MATERIAL: CIVIL PENALTY AND INJUNCTION. (a) A museum that displays obscene or harmful material in violation of Section 43.22, 43.23, or 43.24, Penal Code, is liable to the state in an amount not to exceed $500,000 for each item of displayed material and each day the (b) The attorney general may bring an action to obtain: (2) a civil penalty as provided by Subsection (a); and (3) reasonable attorney's fees and reasonably incurred costs of investigation or litigation. (c) An injunction issued under this section must require, in addition to any other relief, that a museum publicly displaying obscene or harmful material as described by Subsection (a) remove the material from public display indefinitely. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
Bill History
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