H.B. No. 1872




AN ACT

relating to the prosecution of the offense of criminal trespass.              
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 30.05(a), Penal Code, is amended to read 
as follows:     
	(a)  A person commits an offense if he enters or remains on or 
in property, including an aircraft or other vehicle, of another 
without effective consent or he enters or remains in a building of 
another without effective consent and he:
		(1)  had notice that the entry was forbidden;  or                             
		(2)  received notice to depart but failed to do so.                           
	SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.                      
	(b)  The change in law made by this Act applies only to an 
offense committed on or after September 1, 2003. An offense 
committed before September 1, 2003, is covered by the law in effect 
when the offense was committed, and the former law is continued in 
effect for that purpose.  For the purposes of this subsection, an 
offense was committed before September 1, 2003, if any element of 
the offense was committed before that date.




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   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 1872 was passed by the House on April 
30, 2003, by a non-record vote.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	I certify that H.B. No. 1872 was passed by the Senate on May 
28, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Secretary of the Senate    



APPROVED:  _____________________                                            
 
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                 Governor