81R242 CAE-D
 
  By: Jackson H.B. No. 123
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to activities that constitute common nuisance.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 125.0015(a), Civil Practice and Remedies
  Code, as amended by Chapters 593 (H.B. 8) and 1399 (H.B. 2644), Acts
  of the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, is reenacted and
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  A person who maintains a place to which persons
  habitually go for the following purposes and who knowingly
  tolerates the activity and furthermore fails to make reasonable
  attempts to abate the activity maintains a common nuisance:
               (1)  discharge of a firearm in a public place as
  prohibited by the Penal Code;
               (2)  reckless discharge of a firearm as prohibited by
  the Penal Code;
               (3)  engaging in organized criminal activity as a
  member of a combination as prohibited by the Penal Code;
               (4)  delivery, possession, manufacture, or use of a
  controlled substance in violation of Chapter 481, Health and Safety
  Code;
               (5)  gambling, gambling promotion, or communicating
  gambling information as prohibited by the Penal Code;
               (6)  prostitution, promotion of prostitution, or
  aggravated promotion of prostitution as prohibited by the Penal
  Code;
               (7)  compelling prostitution as prohibited by the Penal
  Code;
               (8)  commercial manufacture, commercial distribution,
  or commercial exhibition of obscene material as prohibited by the
  Penal Code;
               (9)  aggravated assault as described by Section 22.02,
  Penal Code;
               (10)  sexual assault as described by Section 22.011,
  Penal Code;
               (11)  aggravated sexual assault as described by Section
  22.021, Penal Code;
               (12)  robbery as described by Section 29.02, Penal
  Code;
               (13)  aggravated robbery as described by Section 29.03,
  Penal Code;
               (14)  unlawfully carrying a weapon as described by
  Section 46.02, Penal Code;
               (15)  murder as described by Section 19.02, Penal Code;
               (16)  capital murder as described by Section 19.03,
  Penal Code; [or]
               (17)  continuous sexual abuse of young child or
  children as described by Section 21.02, Penal Code;
               (18) [(17)]  massage therapy or other massage services
  in violation of Chapter 455, Occupations Code; or
               (19)  as described by Section 43.251, Penal Code, the
  employment, authorization, or inducement of a child to work:
                     (A)  in a sexually oriented commercial activity;
  or
                     (B)  in a place of business permitting,
  requesting, or requiring a child to work nude or topless.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to a cause of action that accrues on or after the effective date of
  this Act. A cause of action that accrues before the effective date
  of this Act is governed by the law in effect immediately before that
  date, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.