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                                                                  H.B. No. 68 




AN ACT

relating to public nuisance actions involving criminal street 
gangs.        
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 125.061(2), Civil Practice and Remedies 
Code, is amended to read as follows:
		(2)  "Continuously or regularly" means at least five 
times in a period of not more than 12 [six] months.
	SECTION 2.  For purposes of determining whether gang 
activities are continuous or regular, the change in law made by this 
Act applies only to a gang activity that occurs on or after the 
effective date of this Act, or in the six-month period immediately 
preceding the effective date of this Act.  A gang activity that 
occurred more than six months before the effective date of this Act 
is covered by the law as it existed when the gang activity occurred, 
and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.                           




______________________________              ______________________________
 
   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 68 was passed by the House on March 
22, 2005, by a non-record vote.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	I certify that H.B. No. 68 was passed by the Senate on May 24, 
2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Secretary of the Senate    



APPROVED:  _____________________                                            
 
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                 Governor