88R33030 SCL-D     By: Flores S.R. No. 700     R E S O L U T I O N            BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Texas, 88th   Legislature, Regular Session, 2023, That Senate Rule 12.03 be   suspended in part as provided by Senate Rule 12.08 to enable the   conference committee appointed to resolve the differences on House   Bill 4635 (organized crime, racketeering activities, and   collection of unlawful debts) to consider and take action on the   following matter:          Senate Rules 12.03(1), (2), and (3) are suspended to permit   the committee to change, alter, or amend text not in disagreement by   adding text on a matter not in disagreement and omitting text not in   disagreement in proposed SECTION 6 of the bill, so that the text of   added Section 72.01(7), Penal Code, reads as follows:                (7)  "Unlawful debt" means any money or other thing of   value constituting principal or interest of a debt that is wholly or   partly legally unenforceable in this state because the debt was   incurred or contracted:                      (A)  in violation of:                            (i)  the Texas Racing Act (Subtitle A-1,   Title 13, Occupations Code, and Article 179e, Revised Civil   Statutes);                            (ii)  Subtitle A, Title 4, Finance Code, or   Section 11, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, relating to interest   and usury, if the usurious rate is at least twice the enforceable   rate; or                            (iii)  Chapter 47, relating to gambling; or                      (B)  in gambling activity in violation of federal   law or in the business of lending money at a rate usurious under   state law if the usurious rate is at least twice the enforceable   rate.          Explanation: The change is necessary to provide the scope of   a usurious rate for purposes of the definition of "unlawful debt"   and make a nonsubstantive change to a citation.