By:  Staples                                                      S.B. No. 729
	(In the Senate - Filed February 27, 2003; March 3, 2003, 
read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; 
March 20, 2003, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6, 
Nays 0; March 20, 2003, sent to printer.)


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.



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