1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the harassment of persons by individuals imprisoned or
 1-3     confined in adult or juvenile correctional facilities; creating an
 1-4     offense.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Chapter 22, Penal Code, is amended by adding
 1-7     Section 22.11 to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 22.11.  HARASSMENT BY PERSONS IN CERTAIN CORRECTIONAL
 1-9     FACILITIES.  (a)  A person commits an offense if the person, while
1-10     imprisoned or confined in a secure correctional facility or a
1-11     facility operated by or under contract with the Texas Youth
1-12     Commission and with intent to harass, alarm, or annoy  another
1-13     person, causes the other person to contact the blood, seminal
1-14     fluid, urine, or feces of the actor or any other person.
1-15           (b)  An offense under this section is a felony of the third
1-16     degree.
1-17           (c)  If conduct constituting an offense under this section
1-18     also constitutes an offense under another section of this code, the
1-19     actor may be prosecuted under either section.
1-20           SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
1-21     only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
1-22     Act.  For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
1-23     the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
1-24     before the effective date.
 2-1           (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
 2-2     Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
 2-3     and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
 2-4           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-5           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-6     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-7     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-8     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-9     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1713 was passed by the House on April
         7, 1999, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in
         Senate amendments to H.B. No. 1713 on May 17, 1999, by a non-record
         vote.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1713 was passed by the Senate, with
         amendments, on May 13, 1999, by a viva-voce vote.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor