Tex. Penal Code § 43.032 · Subchapter A. PROSTITUTION
CONTINUOUS PROMOTION OF PROSTITUTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(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 43.03.
(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 43.03 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 43.03.
(c) If the victim of an offense under Subsection (a) is the same victim as a victim of an offense under Section 43.03, a defendant may not be convicted of the offense under Section 43.03 in the same criminal action as the offense under Subsection (a), unless the offense under Section 43.03:
(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 43.03 is alleged to have been committed against the same victim.
(e) An offense under this section is a felony of the first degree.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 250 (H.B. 1778), Sec. 2.02, eff. September 1, 2025.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.43.htm
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Code of Criminal Procedure
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 12.01FELONIES.Printed as Section 43.032, Penal Code
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 17.081ADDITIONAL REQUISITES OF BAIL BOND GIVEN BY CERTAIN DEFENDANTS.Printed as Section 20A.02, 20A.03, 43.02, 43.03, 43.031, 43.032, 43.04, 43.041, or 43.05, Penal Code
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 17.465CONDITIONS FOR DEFENDANT CHARGED WITH CERTAIN TRAFFICKING OR PROSTITUTION RELATED OFFENSES INVOLVING ADULT VICTIMS.Printed as Section 20A.02, 20A.03, 43.03, 43.031, 43.032, 43.04, 43.041, or 43.05, Penal Code
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 42A.054LIMITATION ON JUDGE-ORDERED COMMUNITY SUPERVISION.Printed as Section 20A.02, 20A.03, 43.03, 43.032, 43.04, or 43.05, Penal Code
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 56B.003DEFINITIONS.Printed as Section 20A.02, 20A.03, 43.03, 43.031, 43.032, 43.04, 43.041, 43.05, 43.25, 43.251, or 43.26, Penal Code
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 58.051DEFINITIONS.Printed as Section 20A.02, 20A.03, 43.03, 43.031, 43.032, 43.04, 43.041, 43.05, 43.25, 43.251, or 43.26, Penal Code
Occupations Code
- Tex. Occ. Code § 455.005EFFECT ON LOCAL LAW.Printed as Section 34.02, 43.02, 43.021, 43.03, 43.032, 43.04, 43.05, or 71.02, Penal Code | Section 43.02, 43.021, 43.03, 43.032, 43.04, 43.05, or 71.02, Penal Code
- Tex. Occ. Code § 455.152INELIGIBILITY FOR LICENSE.Printed as Section 43.021, 43.03, 43.031, 43.032, 43.04, 43.041, or 43.05, Penal Code
- Tex. Occ. Code § 455.251GROUNDS FOR LICENSE DENIAL, DISCIPLINARY ACTION, OR ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY.Printed as Section 43.021, 43.03, 43.031, 43.032, 43.04, 43.041, or 43.05, Penal Code
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