By: Staples S.B. No. 729
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the elements of the offense of harassment by persons in
certain correctional facilities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 22.11, Penal Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) A person commits an offense if the person, while
imprisoned or confined in a secure correctional facility or a
facility operated by or under contract with the Texas Youth
Commission and with intent to harass, alarm, or annoy another
person, causes the other person to contact the blood, seminal
fluid, urine, or feces of the actor, [or] any other person, or an
animal.
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 occurred before that date.