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By:  Riddle (Senate Sponsor - Williams)                           H.B. No. 1872
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 2003; 
May 6, 2003, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal 
Justice; May 23, 2003, reported favorably by the following vote:  
Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 23, 2003, sent to printer.)


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

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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