§ 100D.003.Damages

The damages provision, closing the chapter and Title 4.

A court shall award a prevailing donee or donee's estate: 300 percent of the amount of donations the defendant collected on behalf of the donee; and reasonable and necessary attorney's fees.

And shall award a prevailing donor or donor's estate: 300 percent of the amount of donations the defendant collected from the donor; and reasonable and necessary attorney's fees.

Two parallel provisions with different measures. The donee recovers a multiple of everything raised in their name; the donor recovers a multiple of what they personally gave. The two do not overlap, so both may recover without double counting.

300 percent against the crowdfunding chapter's 125 percent is the sharpest distinction between the two, and it reflects the aggravating element: exploiting a declared disaster to divert charity from people who have just lost their homes.

Both awards are mandatory — "shall award" — including the fees, which is what makes a small individual donor's claim worth bringing at all.

Subsection (c) preserves exemplary damages under the damages chapter for any of the four claimants, so the multiplied award is a floor rather than a ceiling.

The chapter is the last in Title 4, and it closes the Title on the same note much of it strikes: a specific statutory remedy for a specific wrong, with mandatory fees to make it usable.