BILL ANALYSIS
Senate Research Center S.B. 182
AUTHOR'S / SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT
Current law provides for an offense of trespass when a person enters or remains on or in the property, including an aircraft or other vehicle, of another person without effective consent. This law does not include a recreational vehicle park as such property subject to trespass.
As proposed, S.B. 182 amends current trespass law to include a recreational vehicle park as property on which a person commits an offense if the person enters or remains on or in such property of another without effective consent.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS
SECTION 1. Amends Section 30.05(a), Penal Code, to include a recreational vehicle park as property on which a person commits an offense if the person enters or remains on or in such property of another without effective consent, in addition to an aircraft or other vehicle. Makes nonsubstantive changes.
SECTION 2. Amends Section 30.05(b), Penal Code, by adding Subdivision (8), to define "recreational vehicle park."
SECTION 3. Makes application of this Act prospective.
SECTION 4. Effective date: September 1, 2007.