S.B. No. 729




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.

                                                                              




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President of the Senate             Speaker of the House
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 729 passed the Senate on 
March 27, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.




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   Secretary of the Senate             
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 729 passed the House on 
May 16, 2003, by a non-record vote.




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   Chief Clerk of the House            



Approved:


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            Date



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          Governor