Enrolled Bill Summary

            Senate Bill 642 amends the Civil Practice and Remedies Code to revise language describing a common nuisance. It expands the definition of maintaining a common nuisance to include knowingly maintaining a location where habitual possession or manufacture of controlled substances occurs. Another change, applicable to cities of population 440,000 or more, expands the definition to include knowingly maintaining a multiunit residential property used habitually for aggravated assault, sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault, robbery, aggravated robbery, or the unlawful carrying of a weapon, without making a reasonable attempt to abate such activity. The act makes conforming changes to code provisions relating to evidence of a common nuisance.